Yeshu, Yehoshua, or Yeshua

[Paul Younan]

Good gollie, Paulie! That's a challenge! I'm trying to learn how to read Aramaic and Hebrew. I'd like to be able to pronounce accurately. I have slight OCD, so it kills me to not be able to pronounce the ayn.

Here's a simple exercise. You probably have pronounced it before and not associated the sound with a Semitic letter.

Say "Saudi Arabia" out loud. It's right here: Saw(**right here is a brief guttural stop**)-dee Ar-ray-bee-aa"

It's that brief stop before the D.