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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Learn the Hebrew Letter Chet in the Hebrew Alphabet!

Learn the Hebrew Letter Chet in the Hebrew Alphabet!: letter Chet has generally lost its original sound and tends to be pronounced as ch as in the words loch or Bach, but this is only because many Hebrew speakers have come from countries whose languages do not contain gutturals and who are therefore unable to articulate the correct h sound. Arabic speakers and many Jews from Arab countries are able to make the correct sound. In particular, Yemenite Jews are recognized as speaking ‘correct’ or authentic Hebrew, with the original Hebrew pronunciation of all the letters intact after all these years.

Here is what the Hebrew letter Chet looks like

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