[HANASHIR:1718] Re: Alef bet

[Janet . PAPE <Janet.PAPE...>]

Oh gosh - after this introduction, I don't think I'll bother searching for
the video.  I'll just play Debbie's tape.  Thanks!  Janet


> Vis a Vis Barney and the Alef Bet song - I beg to differ on one small
> point,
> Steve.  He DID change it.  1) All the kids on the video did was the chorus
> -
> none of the verses. 2) It appears on the tape jacket as "Hebrew ABCs" and
> - on
> the cover, there is no mention of Debbie having written the song (although
> this
> is corrected in the credits at the end of the tape). 3) - and most
> annoying of
> all - the kids singing the song do not know how to pronounce some of the
> letters.  E.G. - did you know there were two Hebrew letters called "Chayt"
> and
> "Tayt?"  Worst of all (in my opinion), did you know that without the
> dagesh, a
> kaf becomes a "chaf" - where the "ch" is pronounced in the way it is in
> English
> - like in the word "chair?"  I agree with Debbie's "rendition" of the alef
> bet
> song at CAJE the year Barney came out with his:  "..Just sing the letters
> like
> Barney, and you'll have to go back to school."
> 
>