BTW I also learned Hebrew the Israeli way of pronunciation as a child (excluding the weird "resh"), and I see no compelling reason why I should "switch" to saying a "sav" instead of a "tav." On the other hand, I DO see much reason to adopt an actual het, rather than a duplicate of khaf that I was taught, and so I pronounce het like Sephardim since that is the actual letter. Yes it is ok to say pronouncing a het as a khaf is mistaken, and that is not insulting anyone david ben aryeh, it is merely stating a fact. If one wishes to cling to their incorrect pronunciation, that is their right, but they can't claim that facts aren't facts and that a given letter is not a given letter. And if someone wishes to adopt what he sees as correct, there is nothing wrong with that either - You don't suggest that there is, do you?