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I know how to read Hebrew with though

2006-07-21 04:43:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

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It takes time, I have been learning hebrew for 10 yrs, and for maybe the first 6 or 7 they told us we must write vowels under the words all of the books we read from had vowels. But once we built up a sufficient vocabulary, and we had a better understanding of the structure of the Hebrew language, it is very easy, in fact, probably easier without vowels. If you want to read without vowels, I say, keep on practicing with vowels, build up your vocabulary, and gradually get books/workbooks that don't have vowels and slowly start to use them. Before you know it, you will be reading and writing hebrew like a pro, like an Israeli!

2006-07-21 18:37:37 · answer #1 · answered by Expert man 2 · 4 1

Reading Hebrew without vowel points is mostly an exercise for native speakers or those very fluent. The easiest way is to remember that the roots are all consonants, the vowels only provide grammatical information. So you have to kind of let your mind go when you read it without vowels and use your imagination a little more if you are not a native speaker.

2006-07-21 11:58:30 · answer #2 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0 0

Well, it is kind of difficult for those who are used to read vowel letters (European languages etc), but for us, Hebrew and other Semite languages speakers, it is totally natural and fluent.
It is known that when we read a text in a language that we're fluent at, we don't read the whole word letter by letter; we "throw" a quick look at the complex and compare it to our premium knowledge (=the word itself).
The reason that Hebrew fluent readers understand a Hebrew text without vowel marks is the same one that makes you understand Internet shortenings such as "plz", "tnx" and "gd-by": you compare these consonants to a word you know, so you don't need the vowels to understand it.

Wow, I hope you understood what I was saying, cause now, when I read my answer again, I think I was a bit messy.

2006-07-21 15:53:39 · answer #3 · answered by yotg 6 · 0 0

just like reading english without vowels like:
right is rght
or
snow is snw
are is r

2006-07-21 11:47:37 · answer #4 · answered by idk 3 · 0 1

Hw d u rd Hbrw wtht vwl mrks? Knd f lk ths! Nd I dnt spk Hbrw!

2006-07-22 17:46:19 · answer #5 · answered by Mark V 4 · 0 1

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