Form	Final Form	Name	Pronunciation
א		Aleph	Silent
בּ (ב)		Beth	Hard – B as bat Soft – V as very
גּ (ג)		Gimel	G in goat
דּ (ד)		Daleth	Hard – D in done Soft – Th in them
ה		He	H in hot
ו		Waw (vav)	W as in with
ז		Zayin	Z in zoom
ח		Heth	Ch in character
ט		Teth	T in tone
י		Yodh	Y in you
כּ (כ)	ך (ךּ)	Kaph	Hard - K in keep Soft – Ch as in bach
ל		Lamedh	L in let
מ	ם	Mem	M in mom
נ	ן	Nun	N in net
ס		Samekh	S in sun
ע		Ayin	Silent
פּ (פ)	ף	Pe	Hard - P in play Soft – Ph as in phew
צ	ץ	TSadhe	Ts in tsar
ק		Qoph	Q in antique
ר		Resh	R as right
שׂ		Sin	S in summer
שׁ		Shin	S in shop
תּ (ת)		Taw	Hard – T in take Soft – Th in three

שׂ and שׁ are consider the same consonant.

The Hebrew alphabet has twenty-two consonants.
The Hebrew language is written from the right to the left.
Five consonants are modified when at the end of a word.
Six consonants have two ways of pronunciation (hard and soft).

Primary Form	Secondary Form
כ	ך
נ	ן
פ	ף
צ	ץ
מ	ם

ת	פ	כ	ד	ג	ב
תּ	פּ	כּ	דּ	גּ	בּ

Alpeh (א) and Ayin (ע) are guttural consonants pronounced with a slight audible breath; hence in English they are considered to be silent.