I’m glad you mentioned the vav pornounced as “u” meaning and, it confused me a bit. But I still wonder about the reason why it’s pronounced differently.
The first excercise was easy for me, the only word I didn’t know was wife.
In the second excersice, I heard the sound patterns and I could see the colour of the a group they belong to! The verb travel was a tricky one, the rest I could identify easily.
I like how you pointed out at the end of the video why video lessons are convenient way of teaching.
Todah Radka!
So the “Veh” (and) could also be pronounced as OO due to grammatical reasons. The “Veh” becomes “OO” when:
1) the word that comes after the “and” starts with a full stop
2) when the word that comes after the “and” starts with the letters
ב ו מ ף
as beginners we have to focus on specific goals – in this case – the sound patterns. addressing this change in the “and” is already too much- but i do like to explain things when i can as long as they solve a confusion. My challenge as a teacher is not to open a rabbit hole.
Most teachers won’t even touch this subject since we’re teaching speaking and not necessarily grammatical rules + most native Hebrew speakers won’t differentiate. they’ll say “Veh” every time.
I hope it helped 🙂
I was about to ask the same question and so glad you answered it. I am in an interfaith relationship and me and my fiancee took our kids to a Rosh Hoshanah service and during one of the songs the Vav was pronounced “oo” and I have to admit it bothered me quite a bit bc my brain couldn’t figure out why it was pronounced oo and not veh! and now I know. yeah. Also I could understand all the vocab except for the word sfor later on, afterwards although I guessed from context and was pleased to know my guess was correct!
I liked this exercises. I missed vocabulary #1 above the first one like you did with the other two and exercise # 1 and 2 above the exercises, as you dit with exercise #3 (but that’s probably just me 😉
I like that you go through al the verbs and explain it again. I like the repetition. So in the next text you so the pattern easily.
Ironically, I remembered the sound pattern (by the sound) but not the colors (because it’s been a while since I referred back to those pages). However, I guess this is the objective, to recognize the sounds and notice when verbs are similar!
I did write a comment/question on the PDF:
Why is there a space between the first 5 verbs, and the last 3 verbs?
I thought maybe the video would explain, but there doesn’t seem any specific reason?
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I’m glad you mentioned the vav pornounced as “u” meaning and, it confused me a bit. But I still wonder about the reason why it’s pronounced differently.
The first excercise was easy for me, the only word I didn’t know was wife.
In the second excersice, I heard the sound patterns and I could see the colour of the a group they belong to! The verb travel was a tricky one, the rest I could identify easily.
I like how you pointed out at the end of the video why video lessons are convenient way of teaching.
Todah Radka!
So the “Veh” (and) could also be pronounced as OO due to grammatical reasons. The “Veh” becomes “OO” when:
1) the word that comes after the “and” starts with a full stop
2) when the word that comes after the “and” starts with the letters
ב ו מ ף
וּגְבָעוֹת, וּסְעָרָה, וּכְלָבִים
וּבָנוֹת, וּמִדְבָּר, וּפֵרוֹת
as beginners we have to focus on specific goals – in this case – the sound patterns. addressing this change in the “and” is already too much- but i do like to explain things when i can as long as they solve a confusion. My challenge as a teacher is not to open a rabbit hole.
Most teachers won’t even touch this subject since we’re teaching speaking and not necessarily grammatical rules + most native Hebrew speakers won’t differentiate. they’ll say “Veh” every time.
I hope it helped 🙂
Yes, thank you! :))
Thank you for this explanation.
I was about to ask the same question and so glad you answered it. I am in an interfaith relationship and me and my fiancee took our kids to a Rosh Hoshanah service and during one of the songs the Vav was pronounced “oo” and I have to admit it bothered me quite a bit bc my brain couldn’t figure out why it was pronounced oo and not veh! and now I know. yeah. Also I could understand all the vocab except for the word sfor later on, afterwards although I guessed from context and was pleased to know my guess was correct!
I liked this exercises. I missed vocabulary #1 above the first one like you did with the other two and exercise # 1 and 2 above the exercises, as you dit with exercise #3 (but that’s probably just me 😉
I like that you go through al the verbs and explain it again. I like the repetition. So in the next text you so the pattern easily.
Ironically, I remembered the sound pattern (by the sound) but not the colors (because it’s been a while since I referred back to those pages). However, I guess this is the objective, to recognize the sounds and notice when verbs are similar!
I did write a comment/question on the PDF:
Why is there a space between the first 5 verbs, and the last 3 verbs?
I thought maybe the video would explain, but there doesn’t seem any specific reason?
Same I remembered the sound pattern and not the color but I guess the important thing is the sound pattern!