practice and own this week’s doses of Hebrew!

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הסכם-שלום-1.m4a” /]הֶסְכֵּם שָׁלוֹם A peace agreement, like that between Israel and the Palestinians that has been in process for dozens of years, is called a הסכם שלום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הסכם-שלום-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הסכם-שלום-2.m4a” /]טרם הגענו להסכם שלום. We haven’t yet reached a peace agreement. הסכם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הסכם-שלום-3.m4a” /] is related to the active-causative verb להסכים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הסכם-שלום-4.m4a” /]…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צרעה-1.m4a” /]צִרְעָה The Hebrew word for a bee is דבורה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צרעה-2.m4a” /]. But the larger, perhaps more intimidating species is צרעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צרעה-1.m4a” /] – wasp or hornet (which is also called a דבור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צרעה-3.m4a” /]). Though in Biblical Hebrew this insect appears in the generic plural form הצרעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צרעה-4.m4a” /], Modern Hebrew uses the plural form צרעות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/צרעה-5.m4a”…