For 4 letters that will be easy to remember, find a dreidel. Play with it a lot, and remember the gimmel, nun, heh, and shin, the four sides (unless its Israeli, and then it's slightly different).
For the things that all look like daled, pay attemtion to how the horizontal bar sits on the pole, and think of everything in relation to daled. Yeah, not as much fun as the shin/sin saying, but it's how I learned to tell the difference back in the day.
Daled: straight bar on a regular sized pole Vuv: shorter straight bar on regular sized pole ( way to remember: the word 'vuv' is shorter than the word 'daled', so its bar is shorter too?) Zion: the bar is slanty and hangs over the pole, but the pole is normal-sized (the letter 'z' is slanty, as is the pole) Yod: short bar, short pole, hangs in the air (short word, short letter) Rash: Curved bar, curves into the normal sized pole (curves sorta like the letter 'r' can) *Final Letters* Final Koof: bar on long pole Final Nun: short bar on long pole
Now, Final Mem looks a lot like Samech. The former is squared and the latter is rounded.
That was longish, but again, I hope it helps, or leads you to the 'help road'. ~Amanda
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Date: 2005-06-08 02:45 pm (UTC)For the things that all look like daled, pay attemtion to how the horizontal bar sits on the pole, and think of everything in relation to daled. Yeah, not as much fun as the shin/sin saying, but it's how I learned to tell the difference back in the day.
Daled: straight bar on a regular sized pole
Vuv: shorter straight bar on regular sized pole ( way to remember: the word 'vuv' is shorter than the word 'daled', so its bar is shorter too?)
Zion: the bar is slanty and hangs over the pole, but the pole is normal-sized (the letter 'z' is slanty, as is the pole)
Yod: short bar, short pole, hangs in the air (short word, short letter)
Rash: Curved bar, curves into the normal sized pole (curves sorta like the letter 'r' can)
*Final Letters*
Final Koof: bar on long pole
Final Nun: short bar on long pole
Now, Final Mem looks a lot like Samech. The former is squared and the latter is rounded.
That was longish, but again, I hope it helps, or leads you to the 'help road'.
~Amanda