Learn the Hebrew Letters

Hebrew has long been a mystery to me. Time to get cracking on it!

It would be very beneficial if the name of the letter and the pronunciations could be shown when it is pronounced. I have hearing difficulty and this is makes it difficult to hear the letters such as hard c sounds. Thanks for all the help, I am finally learning Hebrew in my 70's

Thanks

Rav, i thanks to u all for providing all the source of our hiritage, aish provive us most of our need, may Hashem bless aish for their hard works, please continue it for our better jewsness will grow n light the whole woeld.

At my shul we learn the Shafardic pronunciation but there is an Azkenaz as well. Here is what I learned Alef>A; Bet>B;Vet>V;Gimel>G; Dalet>D; Hey is H & is usually silent when it ends a word; Vav>V;Tzad i>TZ;Het is H;Tet is T;Yud is Y or J;Kh then Koo; The "sofit" letters end the word. Kuf sofit is pronounced K.Lamed is L;Mem is M;Mem sofit;

Hebrew is the oldest and hardest language and it is the language that God speaks to us in

it was very much useful for me...........but its sounds strange that i can get the correct pronounciation..will u please write the prononcitian below the letters in eglish language?/?...........

Thank you Aish and I agree to Richard's comment..

Your methodology is very good.

Hebrew Language has meaning expand our understanding of Scripture

I am deeply grateful with you because you share these tips to learn Hebrew. Hebrew is not only for me a language as others in the world, it is a Sacred language, and the only one. God the Almighty bless you for helping me with these tools. Sincerely... ***STEFAN ERICK*** International Ballad Singer

This is helping me so much in my studying. Thank you again for putting the whole alphabet on here.

If there is a good heartened Jew to hold my hand and walk together i would appreciate.

i love to learn Hebrew and you have made this possible for me to learn the language of Heaven...thank you very much..

I love the interaction...and that you include the final letters..some other sites do not.. thanks...

I love the interaction...and that you include the final letters..some other sites do not.. thanks...

now I need practice reading ...so I can get better at reading the prayers....

yes its good to learn the language of heaven. You guys really nailed it. thanx for ur website..take care dudes.

I like this language but i dont know how i do now i find it thanks...!

Excellent learning tool, please develop similar ones,

This is truly a great teaching tool. Lots of fun and a different way other than reading the alef bet from a book. This is really wonderful and will be used alot. Thanks for all you wonderful articles/tapes, etc.

Great! I'm planning to study it every day and learn it by heart. Then I can start reading. Would love to learn the Sefardi pronunciation, considering my origins. And, like Chava said, the Temani pronunciation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the wonderful educational effort and guidance you provide for the Jewish community and all humanity. It certainly contribute to the bettering of our world.

I'm planning to send it to family and friends so they'll start learning. Yishar coaj!

This is really great. I would really appreciate a Temani voice (someone who pronounces Hebrew according to the Yemenites). I understand that they are the only ones who preserved the original alef, ayin, chet, chaf, and many other sounds that neither Ashkenazis nor Sefardis pronounce today. Many Israelis I know use this pronunciation in their prayers and I am trying to be one of them. Thanks so much!

this will be a new aventure for me to learn Hebrew. thanks for being such a great site.

I use this website every day to study the Alef Beis with my kindergarden son. I practice with him from this site five minutes daily and the results are amazing! Thanks a lot!

This is a wonderful web site for someone just starting to learn hebrew. I am studiyng for a BA in Bibical Studies and I will need to learn both Hebrew and Greek in order to be more effective in my calling. Thank you for this web site the only thing I would add are the words and correct spelling under each letters. However I can not say enough good things about this website.

I have tried to learn Hebrew over the years and it seemed like I just can't get it. After discovering "Learn The Hebrew Letters" I now I feel I can get it. Thanks for being here. Lomax - USA.

When we 'see' the letters and hear it we tend to learn much faster and better and retain the knowledge better.

I just had one lesson last week. I look forward to continuing. Paul

This is an website. Regards gklein

This site would be even more helpful if the name of the character was written underneath. My opinion is that it would be more helpful to see the charter, hear it pronounced and see it's name at the same time. Thank you so much

I started my lessons today.

THIS WEB SITE IS GOOD

I just wanted to express my appreciation for this page, I used it to learn the alef-beis about seven years ago just coming to Yiddishkeit, and thank G-d was just finished the first chapter in the tractate Sukkah with my yeshiva in Passaic, PTI. Aish will always have this part in all of my Torah!

Thankz this site is the best B cause of it i gott high marks on my global assignment and i learned a lottt!!!!!

thanks alot really i learnd alot from this animation .

very usefull

I have been looking for a simple presentation like this. Leave it Aish! I look forward to continuing my studies and to, ultimately, being able to read some very old books from my ancestors which I have inherited.

this is the best site everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this site is the best..always wanted to learn hebrew n this site makes it so easy..thanks

woah, this is really amazing...this will really help me, i will go on this website all the time, thank you !!!

XOXOXOX

This site is very good who ever invent it is a real educator.

Hi
This has helped me so far - thanks. One small suggestion is maybe have the word written as well? Really helps to see what you are saying - cannot complain since such a nice site.

This site is really Marvelous, it realy help me lot.

fun

I am just beginning to learn Hebrew and this will help a great deal

this site is really amazing, Excellent work guys

This is great! I plan on converting to Judaism and this is helpful!

im going to live abroad in israel soon, and this is a perfect way for me to communicate in small ways!!!THANKS

This site is awesome. My son and I are trying to learn Hebrew together and this is a fun activity.

I'm planning a trip to Isreal and this is a great way to learn and start my journey. Thank you.

I was just clicking around google and I found this site. It's really neat that it took me about 30 min to go through and really learn all the words. I loved it!

I am trying to learn Hebrew and this helps a lot. My 2 1/2 year old son really enjoys it too!

Thank you so much for the online hebrew lessons, they are so great.I have always wanted to learn hebrew and your begining lessons are a great help!

Great teaching aid, but would love to have vowels included! I'm no longer teaching, but still tutor a couple of kids who have learning disabilities. One of these students learns best visually and loves anything computer related. And this is so much more fun than my hoemmade flashcards!

I really found this format helpful. It is something I can refer to several times throughout the day that reinforces what I have learned. Thank you!

This was the best way of learning Hebrew on line I've seen yet! The entire format is PERFECT! I wish you would continue!

really good. would love to see more. there needs to be much more hebrew learning of this quality available.

i like to learn hebrew

AS A LIGUISTICIAN I SAY THAT THIS ON-LINE ANIMATED APPROACH TO LEARNING HEBREW IS VERY IMPESSIVE!
YOU HAVE PREPARED THE LESSONS WELL AND HAVING BOTH VOICE AND SCRIPT IN THE TWO LANGUAGES IS RARE, BUT IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
I WILL SAY,HOWEVER, THAT,FOR SURE,IT WOULD BE FAR MORE BENEFICIAL IF YOU WERE TO HAVE ON THIS PAGE MANY MORE EPISODES RATHER THAN JUST THE X3 SHOWN!ARE YOU INTENDING TO ADD MORE ?
SHALOM!

Very good program for beginners like me. Thank you so much.

I have made flash cards with all the words and terms

this was very helpful

This has helped me a lot because i couldn't speak any hebrew, but read it, and now i can read. Thank you

thank you for this mizvah , i am happy to see the work of the creater in work , so i just whanted to say thank you for this

I think that this its great, the opportunity to know the Hebrew language from this way... Thank you.

pleased to find you, for setting out to learn hebrew alphabet, words and language...

Thank you for this help in learning Hebrew. I have been studying Hebrew for the last few years. This tool has helped greatly.

Thank you for this help.

I finally have something that can teach me easily how to pronounce different letters. Its great that they give you a listening example.

i haven't yat seen such a superb method to larn any language because u really want to help the learner.

Excellent, i was looking for a site like this, thank you, I love hebrew lenguage and Hebrew people too.
Shalom Jerusalem!

I came upon your website by accident and I am most grateful. Carry on with your outstanding work, please.

Fantastic manner of teaching Hebrew. I will tell all my friends who are interested in learning Hebrew.

otstanding effort by tutors and site developers, excellent and easiest way to learn Hebrew...

Excellent way of learning Hebrew!!
Thank you

An excellent way to reinforce the earliest Hebrew lessons

I really appreciate all the work you put into things like this. It is such a great help to others.
Thank you

this is great!

I want to thanks you, from Romania.
It's so good, all you made.

Is there ANYTHING on aish.com that isn't great? If so, I haven't found it yet. Another brilliant and insightful component of the world's greatest Jewish website. Bravo!

Wow! I didn't it could be so good -- internet I mean and finding jewish stuff all in one place. Thank you.

As a student who is new to the language, it was nice to find such a clever interactive tool on the internet.

I recently signed up for Beginning Hebrew 1001 at the school I attend. I decided to familiarize myself with the language a little before the class started. I found a couple of sites on the Hebrew alphebet before finding your site and was very discouraged to find many of the letters looked identical!!! Then, luckily, I found your site. I was thrilled to see the enlarged letters and began to notice the differences. Now I'm more familiar with them than I ever thought I would be. Each letter seems distinctly different to me. (It also helps so much to hear the names of the letters pronounced. Now I won't feel like an idiot in class!)

I am trying to learn hebrew, and this is very helpful for me. thanks

love the alphabet trying to learn hebrew and I find this most helpful.I've shared this
.sight with many of my friends and children in our congragation. We are studying the torah and learning how important to apply his teaching today in our lives

As a first time Hebrew student your interactive page has been an invaluable home study guide for me thank you.

Thank you so much. I was able to become familiar with the Hebrew Alphabet in one evening.

I am Religious Educator in the Uk and I studied Hebrew at university as a basic level. This interactive page is excellent.

this is amazing and great for first time learners. I'm very glad that some one developed such an important lerning tool. Every inovated indeed

at 78 it is so great to hear the words pronounced right. I hope I can learn. Thank you for making this available

I like the website too

what a delight it is to be able to HEAR the correct enunciations of the alef-bet. This is going to be very benifical to me. Thank you so very much!!
I hope to HEAR and learn more.

I love your web site.
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It needs to have some lines to read for each letter. We need to be able to order things off of this site.

This is great! Why stop at three? I learned a lot.

Simply wonderful.How and when will more be availible
Mort Klein

ty very much always intsructive for us assimilated american jews hhehehehehhehehehehhe

Just 3 lessons? Make it 30 !!! or more. Make your "SPEAK HEBREW" title more than words.

Best yet!

Great to learn this way.

Please also display the Sefardic pronunciation, and the spoken pronunciaton of each letter. I am used to the Sefardic pronunciation, and the Ashkenazy pronunciation confuses me!

This is the only place I can find the Ashkenazic pronunciation on the web. Thank You.

new to Hebrew but loved the animated Hebrew was the first one that I found that I could follow..thanks

This is a great website! Very easy to learn and it is great to hear the pronunciation. It would be helpful on learning the Hebrew Letters to have the transliteration show as well, to aid in accurate pronunciation?
Thanks very much

Thank you very much. My son and I are enjoying this site very much and are getting a great deal out of it.

i think that this program is very good for little childern and even adults it teachers ypu how to read,speack,and remember what yhe words look like i thank you for displaying this and helping me learnn something i didn't know

I loved your cartoon literacy. It's great!!!

I love the simplicity and effectiveness of your site. It's a major task learning a new alphabet. Well done!

i would like to learn hebrew, thank god for people like you.

I'm so glad that we have your website. It helps me a lot to understand Jewish and israel. I think your website is great, not bias and give many useful and reliable information. I believe in God too , so i'm sure god's with his people and Israel will have a peaceful soon.
god bless you,
lili

Wow! I was afraid I could never learn to read and write in Hebrew because I was afraid I couldn't learn a new alphabet. However, I learned at this site in about 20-30 minutes! thank you (!)

wonderful.......i am so thankful i found this site.....very helpful and the letters are beautiful

I'm gonna send my grandson to this site. He is taking Hebrew in college now.

Loved it but you need to slow it down for us beginners. It would be great if you could add sound for pronunciation too. Keep it up!

I really enjoyed this "ulpan". You must continue with many, many more lessons.

hope youngsters won't mind this grandma getting in on the act! Now that I've discovered this paricular site I might relearn my Hebrew...are there any similar 'classes' for adults??

Great job!

It's a very wonderful way to learn hebrew.Thanks!

Done well...please add more lessons. Also, you might want to convert the pause/play/forward/reverse buttons into buttons similar to a tape or CD player, just like Windows Media Player or RealPlayer...

Excellent Slideshow!!

this is fantastic. please keep it going.

This is quite the most interesting ulpan i have found. Can it be extended to keep conversation going into every day affairs?

I live in a rather isolated area
in terms of culture and language
studies. Since I am studying Hebrew
by myself without any teacher or
local help, what you are send on
line is most helpful.

I am studying Biblical Hebrew, and found the pronounciation very helpful. Thank you

on the animated part it needs to be more towards the words they are pronouncing. I want to learn hebrew and some words I don't know exactly how to sound them Thanks

The speak Hebrew Ulpan is cute and easy to use. First grade teachers should be made aware of this tool to review some of their lessons in a fun way.

Oh, I hope you do more of this. Thanks!

great and cute

tov maod... ani rozah et achi lhavin evrit vzeh hachi tov sh'yeish. Hoo omer, "Todah raba." v'gam ani!

This is a Great way to learn, I hope to see more soon. I am making my book with this to study at home.
Shalom
Gracias

GIVES ME A CHANCE TO PRACTICE AT HOME.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE LESSONS CONTINUE

This is fantastic! The animations are cute and slightly reminiscent of the "South Park" characters... my two year old loves this and actually learned the words from viewing it! Keep it coming!

This class may be for children but I think it's great for adults too. I just discovered it tonight. I hope you will continue with many more lessons because they are terrific! Thanks!

Thanks,
it's very good for adults and children. I hope to see more in the future.
Best regards and shalom.
Giuseppe

I love it! PLEASE keep more comming! My toddler also loves it!

Wonderful! Very clear and easy to follow.
Thank you.
+ Maureen

Very nice and I hope to see more.

Thank you! Give me more.....for the first time hebrew made sense!

Who wants a free personal flip chart of the Hebrew Alphabet, to help you test yourself as you practice memorizing the letters? Laminated. Letter-size. Call 212-252-4313 and leave a message where to mail it. I have too many.

Wow! Wonderful aid to help with my learning hebrew. Thank you aish.com

I like your program the best!!!.

I've always wanted to learn Hebrew but never found the time. Thank you, Aish, for giving me this opportunity!

How exciting to learn Hebrew on the internet. Thankyou so much for making it available for people like me to learn this language.

I really enjoy this sight. I can see and hear the letters and play them over and over for a better understanding of the letter and it's sound. It is the best I have seen so far.

I do enjoy your website... I will be recommending all my friends see it.

Thank you for helping me study for my first Hebrew final exam!

Thanks very much for all the info I can get from your website, always worth reading and gives much food for thought. This website was recommended to me and I have recommended it to others.
Keep up the good work!

Thank you so much for this valuable addition to your website. We are unable to afford hewbrew lessons. This is a great help.

Although I am not Jewish by birth, I have a deep love and appreciation for all that is Jewish. This is one of the best sites I've ever laid eyes on. You are to be commended. Keep up the good work!

i liked the interactive alpha bet. I am starting hebrew school this thursday!

thank you so much for this feature it is a very,very helpful tool for learning the aleph-beis. I just love it,and so does my family. Shalom

Packed with information. A great place to extend knowledge and find out more about Judaism.

I am a beginner and this has helped so much.
Thank you again.

Hi,
While I have mastered the aleph-beis,
my husband doesn't have as much time, and is still at this stage...Your interactive screen is so much better than the others we have! This is a great tool--Thank you!!!

to Aish
you really go out of your way to reach peoples heart, mind and SOUL

keep up the good work

For whatever age, this program is an open door for those of us who are just beginning. I wish a follow up could be added with some words and then short phrases. Thanks again for the entire service at AISH. Alan Flanders

The look of the wall is good also the
hebrew letters

This is Excellent! Because hearing speeds the learing process.... only I feel that each individule may not have the same ability to advance ... so there should be a slower or advanced pace of presentation offered.

OK thank u for all ur help because of ur web site i learnd the whole alpha bet in hebrew i was supposed to study it for my barmitchva coming up in october thanx alot now i can study to the next level.

Hi!

Your Page is nice - but one can't distinguish beth and kaph! The bottom of the kaph is ROUND, the bottom of beth is straight.
If possible, you can correct.
Thanks!
Kind regards,
Petros

Aish.com replys: Sorry for the confusion. The key is that in the beit the bottom bar extends beyond the upright and in the coph the bottom bar does not.

Great! Very helpful. Makes good use of the web's interactive capabilities.
Sephardi pronounciations would be appreciated.
Thanks

I would never know how to pronounce the Aleph-Bais except for your interactive guide. It makes practicing easy. Thanks so much.

While I saw and heard the letters being said, I also recited the Aleph-Beis that i have learned.

my son nathan, 6 years old really likes this interactive learning. do you have anymore for children?
thank you!

Its been a long time since I studied Ivrit and started to forget my Alef-Beis, but this interactive method was what I needed - easy and at my own pace. Do you intend to introduce the script alphabet also?
Thanks for this easy ulpan.

Please hurry and complete the next step on learning Hebrew. Also can we get the Sephardic pronunciation? This is so well done. Both the audio and the visual at the learners own pace. Excellent!!!!!! Is there a software CDRom of this? Please communicate with me. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Lydia Emery or soralydia@aol.com

Nice site-- I wish I would have found it sooner.

Wow! This is great-I can come here everyday to learn. You plan to teach Hebrew on-line? I'll enlist if you do.

I appreciate this marvelous interactive learning center. It will help me on my journey for knowledge of self.

I have been searching for an aid in my endeavor to learn the aleph-beis.
This is a wonderful assist !

Thank you for the alef-bet interactive, I've been looking for just basgic letters as as tarting point for a young student I am tutoring

Great Web page! My daughter is always asking me to help her with her letters. Now, I found a great resource.

This is the best hebrew webpage I have ever seen great job!

Tx you for the auditory inclusion of the alef beit. Really helps. Trying to learn Hebrew on my own.....

every letter is a miracle! I noticed someone sugested a new study of words and perhaps sentences. that would be GOOD
SHALOM from Brazil...

I was learning Hebrew always doubting my pronounciation; this page is very helpful. What would be reaaaaalllyy great is to have some words pronounced too, especially those that arise quite often in the Torah. That would be sweet.

I was planning to making flash cards to memorize the letters, now I will just watch the slide show until I get it, and will know how to pronounce the letters properly. Thank you so much.

This is a great tool for adults like me who are learning Hebrew for the first time. Perhaps a transliteration of the pronunciation would help as the speakers on my computer are less than perfect!

I love this! Todah Rabah for providing such a wonderful educational tool.

Keep the "Learn the Letters" page! I try to "hit" it every morning to start my day. It seems to be working...