Simplify the following text for a Grade 23 native English-speaking person.
Original: Greek , for example , gamma is written as Latin g , despite the fact that it has the alphabetic position of c ; Hebrew bet , the second letter of the alphabet and cognate with the Latin letter b , is sometimes pronounced \/ b \/ and sometimes \/ v \/ , and is written b or v accordingly ; Russian ts is written as c , which is the usual letter for \/ ts \/ in those Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet ; and Arabic f is written as f , despite being historically p , and occurring in that part of the Arabic alphabet ( between historic o and q ) .
Simplified: In Greek , for example , gamma is written as Latin g , despite the fact that it has the alphabetic position of c ; Hebrew beth , the second letter of the alphabet and cognate with the Latin letter b , is instead written v , as it is commonly pronounced ; Russian ts is written as c , which is the usual letter for \/ ts \/ in those Slavic languages that use the Latin alphabet ; and Arabic f is written as f , despite being historically p , and occurring in that part of the Arabic alphabet ( between historic o and q ) .