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Weekly YDDH Review

Weekly YDDH Review

ByAmi Steinberger

חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep.      To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…

how to say “the news” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

  הַחֲדָשׁוֹת  listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet?     The Hebrew word חָדָשׁ listen and repeat means new. It’s an adjective, which means that it takes on the gender of word it modifies, for example:   קָנִיתִי בְּגָדִים חֲדָשִׁים. I bought new clothes. (בגדים is masculine)  listen    and    זֹאת מַגֶּבֶת חֲדָשָׁה. This is…

how to say “values” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

ערכים   Ulpan La-Inyan’s Level 4 is the “upgrade” course – where students’ conversation abilities get upgraded from day-to-day to something they could use to make not-so-small talk at cocktail parties… or begin to participate in discussions in the university classroom.   The central theme of the course is עֲרָכִים (ah-rah-KHEEM) – values. Our next…

conversation: how to say “Youth Aliyah” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger
[audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/14.10.2018-conv-4.m4a" /] - הרבה יהודים ניצלו מהשואה בזכות עליית הנוער. - מה זה עליית הנוער? - עליית הנוער היא תנועה שנוסדה בגרמניה לפני השואה, על מנת להביא יהודים צעירים לארץ ישראל. - Many Jews were saved from the Holocaust thanks to Youth Aliyah. - What's Youth Aliyah? - Youth Aliyah is the movement that...

How to say “artificial” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מלאכותי-1.m4a” /]מְלָאכוּתִי The Hebrew word for artificial – מלאכותי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מלאכותי-1.m4a” /] – comes from the word for craft – מלאכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מלאכותי-2.m4a” /]. The root of these words is ל.א.כ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מלאכותי-3.m4a” /], whose meaning has something to do with transmitting. ל.א.כ is also the root of מלאך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מלאכותי-4.m4a” /] – angel, in Biblical-Hebrew terms also…

how to say “amusing” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

מְשַׁעֲשֵׁעַ   The Hebrew word for amusing – מְשַׁעֲשֵׁע (me-shah-ah-SHEH-ah) – came up in a lesson I gave in Jerusalem last week.  This three-letter (ש.ע.ע – sh.a.a) turned-four-letter root (ש.ע.ש.ע – sh.a.sh.a) appears in several places in the Bible, where in some places it means delights – שַׁעֲשׁוּעִים (shah-ah-shoo-EEM).  Today, a playground in Israel is called גַּן שַׁעֲשׁוּעִים…