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[2eclipse]

hot and sweaty and nasty.
today ross and i helped his friend jory put in a window. and i got to destroy things with a big hammer.
rawr.
lord help ross. he thinks he can trust me with power tools.

hey! does anyone have any good tricks for remembering the hebrew alphabet? or should i say aleph-bet?
things that letters look like or ways to remember how to tell a seen from a sheen (forgive the horrible transliteration please).
i've had two hebrew classes now and the lutherans are pretty cool. my prof is a clown. he loves star wars and keeps saying things like "sith happens" *groan*. but he is interesting and that is very good considering the class starts at 8 am.
we had a bunch of people over for steaks last night and it was lots of fun. i love throwing parties.

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[ashoe.livejournal.com]

hot sweaty heather, destroying things with a big hammer?

damn, girl, you settle in quick. ;p

~a

[silvertongue1.livejournal.com]

There's a great trick to the difference between a sin and a shin (and my spellings are probably wrong too, so I mean the two characters at the end of the aleph-bet that have three 'prongs' sticking up and the difference is the dot above them).

"A sin is never right".

Thus, the dot will be on the left side of a sin and the right side of a shin.
And if I remembered it wrong, hopefully a better Jew will correct me ;)

Did you learn the aleph-bet tune to sing its 'alphabet'? It could help.
~Amanda

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

not sure there really IS a correct way to spell hebrew letters in english.
:)
that is GREAT! much better than the idea of one of my classmates "the seen dot is perceived first"
do you have any more hints like this? dalet looks like everything to me and final mem is worse.
i DON't know the aleph bet song. i know it works to "praise god from whom all blessings flow" and crossroads by johnson/clapton. do you know another one?

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

i blame ross.:)

actually i'm feeling REALLY insecure and doing lots of things to make sure that i pay no attention to my feelings. i was JUST FINE until my stuff got here. then i couldn't pretend i was just visiting anymore. all my stuff is here (minus a few things i forgot like my tent.grrr) but it is mostly still in boxes because we don't have the trim up yet so there is no place to PUT things if i did unpack them.:(
that should be fixed this week. it's not that i'm so attached to my things. it is that i need to have the space the way i want it (involving whatever it is that needs to be put somewhere) in order to feel confident enough to expand outward. i find myself feeling suddenly shy around many of ross's friends and especially women....which is weird for me.

taking this hebrew class is the smartest possible thing i could have done. it puts me in a place where i know all the rules and know how to excell. anything that boosts my confidence is golden right now. i forget how much i depend on my friendships for my self-esteem.
ross has been an absolute angel, but it is just going to take some time.

[silvertongue1.livejournal.com]

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