> > Like the Scottish "ch", as in "loch".
> >
> > winter"hope that helps"mute

Similiar enough to the sound of the Hebrew chet for me, I imagine.

> Funnily? If that is a new word, I like it.
>
> I have problems with the "tsu" sound on words like tsunami. I know English speaking people treat it as if the "t" was silent, but I hear that in Southeast Asia and Japan, it is pronounced. I can't imagine how.
> Howard

Well... we have a tsaddi in Hebrew that's transliterated as "ts" or "tz", and I was told that it's like pronouncing "cats" without the "ca". It is easier to pronounce if it follows a letter with a vowel sound attached, as in "eretz".

Nyperold