Learning Hebrew Memory Aids Four easy to remember words in Hebrew

 I was looking for memory aids in Wikipedia and found this handy advice for learning Hebrew words:

From Wiki

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For foreign-language acquisition

Mnemonics may be helpful in learning foreign languages, for example by transposing difficult foreign words with words in a language the learner knows already, also called "cognates" which are very common in the Spanish language. 

A useful such technique is to find linkwords, words that have the same pronunciation in a known language as the target word, and associate them visually or auditorially with the target word.

For example, in trying to assist the learner to remember ohel (אוהל‎), the Hebrew word for tent, the linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann proposes the memorable sentence "Oh hell, there's a raccoon in my tent".^[20] 

The memorable sentence "There's a fork in Ma's leg" helps the learner remember that the Hebrew word for fork is mazleg (מזלג‎).^[21] 

Similarly, to remember the Hebrew word bayit (בית‎), meaning house, one can use the sentence "that's a lovely house, I'd like to buy it."^[21] 

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I have just made up one for the Hebrew word for boy, which is yeled. The boy yelled at the educator, yel-ed. 

English - Hebrew

boy - yeled

fork - mazleg

house - bayit

tent - ohel

Hebrew - English

bayit - house

mazleg - fork

ohel - tent

yeled - boy

Useful Websites

duolingo.com Hebrew

translate google English - Hebrew Hebrew-English

If you are not sure if a word is Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Russian, whatever, type in Detect language-English.

Wikipedia article on mnemonics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic

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