During week three I continue to study the Hebrew and Persian alphabet. While I am beginning to recognize each character in isolation, the sounds represented by letters strung together still has the power to perplex me at times. Farsi utilizes a cursive script that can make deciphering individual letters difficult (especially when handwritten). To combat this I am taking extra strides to ensure I have a firm grasp of each letter's specific sound and stroke order in isolation, before venturing to form words. The relatively clean, non-cursive script of Modern Hebrew (excluding colloquial short-hand alphabet which I’m skipping for now) makes deciphering the alphabetic components of words easy. The challenge that remains is learning the elusive system to placing vowels.
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