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Jez Monday 02nd of October 2006 02:44:56 AM
Hebrew - I\'ve been going hard on this language for months, and still I cannot read \"regular Hebrew\", but I can read the script..or handwritting. It\'s so confusing, because each letter looks completely different.

Also, how would you write Jerry in Hebrew. I\'m stuck...

I still can\'t find much on the language. Very difficult, but I must learn it!!!

gymboy689 Friday 06th of October 2006 09:23:13 PM
- I used to be the other way...could read \"regular\" but not script. Look at all the letters, right out the aleph-bet each day until you can do it without looking at a chart. Most letters look similar if you look at them abstractly.

Since there are no \"j\" sounds in hebrew, they use gimmel-apostrophe for the sound, so Jerry would be gimmel-apostrophe-resh-yud ג\'רי I think that\'s right, but someone correct me if it\'s not

tali Monday 09th of October 2006 12:55:11 AM
jerry in hebrew - the J in Jerry is written in Hebrew with a Gimmel and a stroke: ‘ג

Since that is a foreign name, the letters are kept like the double \"r\" will be two resh\'s:
ג‘ררי

Likewise, the \"ch\" in chips would be written with a Tzadi and a stroke:‘צ
so \"chips\" would be written: צ‘יפס

morethancool Saturday 14th of October 2006 09:35:24 AM
shalom - Hey there, I just checked out how\'s this forum is going and I ran into this topic, I wanted to help out so... About the main question regarding the name Jerry I have to give the credit to jymboy who indeed gave the right answer:) About Tali\'s reply I\'d have to correct you there just so you will not have that misunderstanding in the past, since spoken Hebrew is pretty new there is no certain way to spell all words mostly because Hebrew has some letters like tet and tav which both has the same sound which is the T sound... so when you take names like Tom you\'d find some people spell it with tet and others with tav, neither is incorrect although you could see a tendancy to spell in a certain way but that does not mean anything at the end of the day.About the name Jerry, you can indeed see that Hebrew has a difficulty with that name since it contains a sound that did not exist before and was made later on- the apostrophe that gymboy mentioned before. There will be NO double resh and there is NO rule about translating the double R to double resh... If you write ג\'ררי I\'d read it as \"jerery\" or \"jerary\" or even \"jeriry\" oh and do will do all Hebrew speakers;) So I advise not to do so.

About learning the letters... I think that it\'s just a matter of practice. yeah nothing new I am giving out here... but it\'s not something anyone could help really... It\'s just about sitting and learning it.. A bit and a bit more \'till you finally know it, I am sure you could make it:)

For any other questions I\'d be more than happy to answer either here or on private.

morethancool Saturday 14th of October 2006 09:38:11 AM
and... - mm sorry about some spelling/grammar mistakes it\'s quite late here;)

Phrasebase Archive
	Jez	Monday 02nd of October 2006 02:44:56 AM
	Hebrew - I\'ve been going hard on this language for months, and still I cannot read \"regular Hebrew\", but I can read the script..or handwritting. It\'s so confusing, because each letter looks completely different. Also, how would you write Jerry in Hebrew. I\'m stuck... I still can\'t find much on the language. Very difficult, but I must learn it!!!
	gymboy689	Friday 06th of October 2006 09:23:13 PM
	- I used to be the other way...could read \"regular\" but not script. Look at all the letters, right out the aleph-bet each day until you can do it without looking at a chart. Most letters look similar if you look at them abstractly. Since there are no \"j\" sounds in hebrew, they use gimmel-apostrophe for the sound, so Jerry would be gimmel-apostrophe-resh-yud ג\'רי I think that\'s right, but someone correct me if it\'s not
	tali	Monday 09th of October 2006 12:55:11 AM
	jerry in hebrew - the J in Jerry is written in Hebrew with a Gimmel and a stroke: ‘ג Since that is a foreign name, the letters are kept like the double \"r\" will be two resh\'s: ג‘ררי Likewise, the \"ch\" in chips would be written with a Tzadi and a stroke:‘צ so \"chips\" would be written: צ‘יפס
	morethancool	Saturday 14th of October 2006 09:35:24 AM
	shalom - Hey there, I just checked out how\'s this forum is going and I ran into this topic, I wanted to help out so... About the main question regarding the name Jerry I have to give the credit to jymboy who indeed gave the right answer:) About Tali\'s reply I\'d have to correct you there just so you will not have that misunderstanding in the past, since spoken Hebrew is pretty new there is no certain way to spell all words mostly because Hebrew has some letters like tet and tav which both has the same sound which is the T sound... so when you take names like Tom you\'d find some people spell it with tet and others with tav, neither is incorrect although you could see a tendancy to spell in a certain way but that does not mean anything at the end of the day.About the name Jerry, you can indeed see that Hebrew has a difficulty with that name since it contains a sound that did not exist before and was made later on- the apostrophe that gymboy mentioned before. There will be NO double resh and there is NO rule about translating the double R to double resh... If you write ג\'ררי I\'d read it as \"jerery\" or \"jerary\" or even \"jeriry\" oh and do will do all Hebrew speakers;) So I advise not to do so. About learning the letters... I think that it\'s just a matter of practice. yeah nothing new I am giving out here... but it\'s not something anyone could help really... It\'s just about sitting and learning it.. A bit and a bit more \'till you finally know it, I am sure you could make it:) For any other questions I\'d be more than happy to answer either here or on private.
	morethancool	Saturday 14th of October 2006 09:38:11 AM
	and... - mm sorry about some spelling/grammar mistakes it\'s quite late here;)