AlefBet: Hebrew from the very first letter

A Hebrew street sign is mostly consonants, and it reads right to left. Confusing at first? AlefBet walks you into Hebrew from the very first letter, explains everything in Russian and lives right inside Telegram. 🇮🇱

It is a mini app with a course, a personal dictionary and flashcards. A good fit for people preparing to move to Israel, studying in an ulpan, or simply curious about the language.

22 letters and five sneaky endings

The alphabet comes in groups: six simple, frequent letters first, then new sounds, look-alike letters, rare ones and final forms. Every letter has a pronunciation hint and a couple of starter words such as shalom or bayit.

Five letters change shape at the end of a word: kaf, mem, nun, pe and tsadi. The app gives them their own block so they stop tripping you up. ✍️

Why one dot turns a V into a B

Everyday Israeli text barely shows vowels. The vowel marks (niqqud) appear in dictionaries, poetry, children's books and texts for new immigrants. For a beginner they are a lifeline.

AlefBet covers five vowel groups: patah and kamats sound like a, tsere and segol like e, hirik like i, holam like o, shuruk and kubuts like u. Shva gets its own lesson, since it is sometimes silent and sometimes a short e.

A dot inside a letter is called dagesh, and it changes the sound. Bet with a dagesh is b, without it v. Kaf (k or kh) and pe (p or f) follow the same rule.

58 lessons, from "this is a house" to the past tense

The course is split into five modules, each ending with an exam. Inside you get lessons, drills and tasks:

• Basics: nominal sentences with no verb "to be", the article, gender and plurals.
• Numbers: one to one hundred, in masculine and feminine forms.
• Prepositions and possession: "to me, to you, to him" as single words, "my" and "your".
• Verbs: present tense and the full past tense table.

Roots and patterns: guess words without a dictionary

Most Hebrew words grow from a root of three consonants. The root carries the meaning, and the pattern of vowels sets the role: action, doer, place. The root k-t-v gives "wrote", "writer" and "letter".

AlefBet trains you to spot these patterns, so after a while unfamiliar words start to make sense on their own. 🧬

Flashcards that remember for you

Words from lessons land in one shared dictionary automatically. On top of that come themed decks with more than 460 words: food, home, city, family, body, nature, clothes, transport, colours and more. Deck words have audio, one tap plays it. 🔊

Reviews run on the SM-2 algorithm. You mark a card Easy, Hard or Again, and the app schedules the next showing. Easy words drift to longer and longer gaps, tricky ones come back soon.

To keep you going there are XP points, levels and a daily streak. Invite a friend and you both get 100 XP once they finish the first letter group. 🎯