listen and repeat.[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/לפסול-#.m4a” /]לִפְסוֹל To disqualify, in Hebrew, is the simple verb לפסול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/לפסול-#.m4a” /]. Likewise, to be disqualified is the נפעל verb להיפסל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/לפסול-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/לפסול-#.m4a” /]עליתי ארבעה שלבים במשחק ואז נפסלתי. I went up four levels in the game and then I got disqualified. The root of לפסול and להיפסל is פ.ס.ל[audioclip…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רופא-שיניים-1.m4a” /]רוֹפֵא שִׁנַּיִם Raise your hand if you like going to the dentist. I actually don’t mind. I have good tooth genes. But if you don’t like going, I get it. The way to say dentist in Hebrew is super-intuitive: רופא שיניים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רופא-שיניים-1.m4a” /] – literally, teeth doctor, where שיניים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רופא-שיניים-2.m4a” /] means teeth and רופא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/רופא-שיניים-3.m4a”…
רַעַשׁ Idan Raichel, one of Israel’s top musicians, really knows how to put on a show. At his concert in Motza Illit last summer, he brought dozens of performers on stage so that the line לעשות קצת רעש – to make some noise – in this song, came alive with everyone expanding their bodies, lights…