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Memory Tips:
1) The way I remember the 13 ֹא Holam (long “o” as in Eng. “so”)
“vowel points” is to have 2
columns where one
contains the “dagesh” (the
וּ Shureq (long “u” sound in Eng. as in “soon”)
dot) and the other contains
the “qamets” (T). ִאי ִא Hiriq (short “i” sound as in Eng. “sit”) | Hiriq Yodh (long “i”
sound as in Eng. “ring”
2) I imagine the “dagesh”
starting at the top and then
falling to the middle and
ֵא Tsere (short or long “e” sounds; usually “ey” as in Eng. “hey”)
the bottom and then
beginning to multiply. It ֶא Segol (short “e” sound as in Eng. “Ed”)
goes from 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3
to 5 and then, at the end,
the 5 splits into a new “3”
ֱא Hataf Segol (VERY short “e” sound as in “eh”)
and a new “2”. (In both
tables note that the vowel
sounds begin “long” and
ְא ֻא Qibbuts (short “u” in Eng. Sounds like “book” | Shewa
(murmured “a”
fall to “short”. There can sounds like Eng.
basically be 5 long & 89 “uh” e.g. “above”)
short sounds.)