Learn the Hebrew Alphabet: 22 Letter Cards, 6 Sound-Alike Pairs and the Vowel Points to Add
Study the 22 Hebrew letters with real flashcards: dagesh pairs, final forms, sound-alike letters like tet and tav, and the niqqud vowel points to add yourself.
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Deck OU2017 – Hebrew Alphabet & Vowel Points gives you 22 cards, one per letter of the alef-bet, each with its modern Israeli sound, an English anchor word and the letter's name in IPA. It is a clean, complete consonant chart — all five final forms are there. What it does not contain, despite the title, is a single vowel point. Here is how to get the most out of it and fill that gap.
Study this deck: Hebrew Alphabet & Vowel Points
1 / 10א - Alef
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
What the cards actually teach
| Card | Back (from the deck) |
|---|---|
| ב – Bet/Vet | With dagesh בּ = /b/; without dagesh ב = /v/ |
| ח – Chet | /χ/ as in Bach |
| כ/ך – Kaf | With dagesh כּ = /k/; without = /χ/; final form ך |
| ע – Ayin | Glottal stop [ʔ] or pharyngeal [ʕ] |
| פ/ף – Pe | פּ = /p/, פ = /f/; final form ף |
| צ/ץ – Tsadi | /ts/ as in cats; final form ץ |
| ר – Resh | /ʁ/ as in French r |
| ש – Shin/Sin | Right dot שׁ = /ʃ/, left dot שׂ = /s/ |
You'll cover: alef, bet/vet, gimel, dalet, he, vav, zayin, chet, tet, yod, kaf/khaf, lamed, mem, nun, samekh, ayin, pe/fe, tsadi, qof, resh, shin/sin, tav; the five sofit forms ך ם ן ף ץ; the dagesh dot; vav and yod as vowel letters (matres lectionis).
Tip 1: learn the sound-alike pairs, not 22 isolated letters
Modern Hebrew has fewer sounds than letters, and the deck never puts the twins side by side. Make one contrast card per group:
- /t/: ט tet = ת tav
- /k/: כּ kaf = ק qof
- /v/: ב vet = ו vav
- /χ/: ח chet = כ khaf (card 8 calls chet pharyngeal, but [ħ] survives only in some Mizrahi speech; in standard Israeli Hebrew it is the same /χ/ as khaf)
- /s/: ס samekh = שׂ sin
- silent / [ʔ]: א alef = ע ayin
Spelling, not pronunciation, decides which one a word uses — so tag each pair with one common word you know.
Tip 2: reverse the deck and drill look-alikes
Every front already prints the letter's name, so you can answer without reading the glyph. Hide the name and quiz the shape alone, grouping the visual traps: ב/כ, ג/נ, ד/ר/ך, ה/ח/ת, ו/ז/ן, ט/ם/ס.
The missing half: niqqud
Add these cards yourself before you open a children's book or a prayer book:
- a: patach ַ, kamatz ָ
- e: segol ֶ, tsere ֵ
- i: hiriq ִ
- o: holam ֹ (וֹ)
- u: kubutz ֻ, shuruk וּ
- shva ְ (silent or a short /e/)
That is about 10 cards — write them as letter + point → syllable (בַּ = ba, בִּ = bi) so the dot lands on a real sound.
Suggested order
- Cards 1-22 with names hidden, five letters a day.
- The six sound-alike groups.
- The final forms (cards 11, 13, 14, 17, 18) in a mini-session.
- Your niqqud cards, then read short pointed words.
Once you can read, move on to vocabulary: How to Learn the Top 100 Essential Hebrew Words.
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