Vet

This one's pronounced "v" as in vacuum. You've noticed that this letter is really just with the dot taken out. So how are we going to remember that? How are we going to keep the two of them straight?

How about imagining that Vet is just Bet with the little dot vacuumed out?

Sort of like this:

No comments on my artistic job, please. :-)

So, let's read a word with this one.

This word means exactly the same as , but it's shorter:

(Av)

So, what would be a shorter way to say "Dad's coming"?

Note:

Now, you should know that technically and are the same letter, with different pronunciations. In everyday writing, Hebrew is written without the dots and vowels, so you can't tell the difference between Bet and Vet! How do you know how to pronounce them, then? Practice! It's not as hard as it sounds.

Anyhow, since and are really the same letter, the next letter, Gimel, is the third letter of the Alefbet.