Looks/sounds about right (hence my comment about being a Levite; not being a Ephramite, we've got the right sound in our toolbox). Depending upon how you learned your Hebrew, though, it's possible it's "screwed up," at least from one perspective. When Israel began to attract more immigrants (perhaps starting about 130 years ago, or so), those trying to revive Hebrew as a spoken language did so with an attempt at Sephardic Hebrew, but with an Ashkenazic perspective. Thus Israeli Hebrew isn't "true" Sephardic Hebrew (witness the "tz" sound of the tzadi, which is there because of the similar sound in German, etc - it doesn't exist in Sephardic Hebrew nor, supposedly, in other Semitic languages). When more liberal (that is, mostly non-Orthodox) congregations taught Hebrew in their schools, what we learned was the Israeli amalgam and not really Sephardic Hebrew (though it is closer to Sephardic than Ashkenazic Hebrew). Your pronunciation is consistent with mine on both accounts. Do I know where in North NJ?
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Date: 2010-12-01 06:31 pm (UTC)