רִיצָה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? With the Tel Aviv marathon this week and the Jerusalem one next month, now’s a good time to do a piece on running – רִיצָה listen and repeat. Look at the second letter in ריצה (reading from right to left). It’s a י listen and repeat,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מסופר-1.m4a” /]סִפּוּר מְסֻפָּר If you’ve got some basic Hebrew down, you most probably know the word for book – ספר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מסופר-2.m4a” /]. You may also know the word for story – סיפור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מסופר-3.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מסופר-4.m4a” /]בספר הזה יש הרבה סיפורים מעניינים. In this book there are a lot of interesting stories. To tell…
לְיַשֵּׁב listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? There’s the simple verb, to sit – לָשֶׁבֶת listen and repeat. And there’s its intensive form, to settle something else – לְיַשֵּׁב listen and repeat. Both come from the root י.שׁ.ב (y.sh.b) meaning sitting. For example: הַסִּינִים יִשְּׁבוּ אֶת טַיווָאן. The Chinese settled Taiwan. listen and אוּלַי הוּא יַצְלִיחַ…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אין-מצב-1.m4a” /]אֵין סִכּוּי, אֵין מַצָּב The Hebrew word for chance as in “so you’re saying there’s a chance” is סיכוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אין-מצב-2.m4a” /]. Thus Hebrew speakers do sometimes translate the expression not a chance to אין סיכוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אין-מצב-3.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אין-מצב-4.m4a” /]אין סיכוי שאני קופץ ממטוס. Not a chance that I’ll jump out of a plane….