Vanilla8's notebook for 'DebiB's classic hebrew class'

[vanilla8]

Excited!

 

[Tishri1]

Vanilla, would you like me to list your notebook link in the teacher's directory like I did mine?

 

[vanilla8]

I'm just copying what everyone else is doing and hoping that I 'get it' eventualy, so yes please

 

[Tishri1]

ok its done now if in the middle of a lesson you need her help she will have a ready link to your notebook

 

[debi b]

I hope it will be clear to me when you guys are trying to talk with me????

Tish - we will be keeping comments on lessons in the posts for that lesson right. I don't want to miss it if someone is trying to ask me something. It might be kinda hard for me to keep track otherwise.

 

[Tishri1]

Debi, I will make it more clear in the instructions(you can copy them into your lesson or change them to fit your lesson too) that students should ask general questions in the lesson thread, or PM the instructor for personal questions which they can then discuss in their student notebook with you(like if they are shy or something or its off topic to the lesson itself).... how does that sound?

 

[debi b]

Fantastic!

 

[Tishri1]

Vanilla I will delete these last few posts so your notebook stays clean and shiny

 

[vanilla8]

Thanks Tishri1, keeping it there wouldn't be a problem but I remember brand new jotters at school!

 

[Tishri1]

it is fun chatting in each others note books would you like me to leave these extra posts from everyone?

 

[vanilla8]

Yes, it shows more of a sense of community
By the way, I'm moving somewhere in 2-4 weeks, so there may be some disruption in well, everything, but I'll still be checking in as much as possible.

 

[debi b]

Howdy!

Could you take a look and let me know what you think?

http://christianforums.com/showpost.php?p=49074172&postcount=1

 

[vanilla8]

It worked fine, I preferred the 3 lessons seperately
Question; why do some letters have a dagesh if the sound doesn't change?

 

[varsity]

Because at an earlier time in history the letters had a dual pronunciation, in fact, in the Yemenite dialect they still do. Also, when you reach tav it has a dual pronunciation in Ashkenazi but not Sephardi Hebrew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenite_Hebrew_language

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-hebrew/2006-July/028852.html

 

[Tishri1]

It worked fine, I preferred the 3 lessons seperately
Question; why do some letters have a dagesh if the sound doesn't change?

you may want to ask this kind of question in the lesson thread as I 'm sure others will want to know too....its a great question

 

[Tishri1]

great answer I love it!!!

Because at an earlier time in history the letters had a dual pronunciation, in fact, in the Yeminite dialect they still do. Also, when you reach tav it has a dual pronunciation in Ashkenazi but not Sephartic Hebrew.

 

[varsity]

The idea that I like to put forth when introducing Hebrew pronunciation is that there are numerous Hebrew pronunciation traditions and there have been down through the ages. One is not more correct than the other. It depends on your community. The fact is that we don't really know how Moshe, David, or Yeshua pronounced Hebrew, but it was probably different from how it is pronounced today.

Listen to Yemenite Hebrew here:

http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/2007/12/yemenite-hebrew-audio-clip.html

 

[debi b]

Question; why do some letters have a dagesh if the sound doesn't change?

Varsity is correct different groups have/had different pronunciation. Sephardic is the most common pronunciation today. While the distinction is not in common use with regard to pronunciation, it is still important in spelling. We will talk about that before we finish the alphabet and phonics section.

 

[vanilla8]

Aleph א
Gimmel ג

 

[vanilla8]

א Aleph
ב Bet
ג gimmel
ד Dalet
ה Hey