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It's a matter of opinion. Both alphabets have aspects that are easy as well as difficult.


Aspects of the Hebrew alphabet which English speakers usually find easy are:


  • Hebrew has no distinction between capital letters and lowercase letters.
  • Hebrew is more than 90% phonetic (English is less than 80%)
  • Hebrew has fewer letters and fewer sounds than English
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