WEEKLY VIDEO DOSE – how to say “made in Israel” (or literally, “product of Israel”)
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having trouble seeing the print? פְּסִיכוֹלוֹגִיָה חִיּוּבִית Discount Deadline today to register for our Level 2 class in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv! טָל בֶּן שַׁחַר Tal Ben Shahar Israeli scholar Tal Ben Shachar and others, including Shawn Achor in this excellent Ted.com video, are proponents of a relatively new movement in psychology that focuses, rather than on repairing damage, on building strength and resiliency. Positive…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/לרכוש-#.m4a” /]לִרְכֹּשׁ The basic Hebrew word for to buy is לקנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/לרכוש-#.m4a” /]: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/לרכוש-#.m4a” /]אני צריך לקנות כמה דברים בסופר. I need to buy a few things at the supermarket. But the higher-level word for to purchase is the simple verb לרכוש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/לרכוש-#.m4a” /]: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/לרכוש-#.m4a” /]גוגל רכשה עוד חברה ישראלית. Google bought/purchased another Israeli company….
having trouble seeing the print? דֵּעָה Check out our world-class conversational Hebrew program The Hebrew word for opinion comes from the root for knowledge – ד.ע.ה (d.a.h). The word is דֵּעָה. For example: הִיא בֶּן אָדָם מַשְׂכִּיל, וְיֵשׁ לָהּ דֵּעָה בָּעִנְיָן. She is an educated person, and she has an opinion on the matter….
סְעָרָה If you’re living on the east coast of the United States, or perhaps in Norway or London or Brazil… you know quite well what a storm is. In Israel we almost forgot this year – that is, until Friday when it started pouring in Tel Aviv. The Hebrew word for storm is…
having trouble seeing the print? בֶּטַח, בָּרוּר, כַּמּוּבָן! highly recommended for further vocabulary growth In yesterday’s dose, we touched on the Hebrew word for security – בִּטָּחוֹן . The root of בטחון is ב.ט.ח meaning sureness and security. To say, for sure! or of course! in Hebrew, you’d use one of several terms. Here are three of them: בטח! A less…
מַחְשָׁבוֹת, הִרְהוּרִים Can’t read Hebrew yet? תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב – Tisha Be’Av or the ninth of (the Jewish month of) Av – is the public day of mourning for the calamities that have come upon the Jewish People. It’s a day of introspection, of thoughts. Now, there are thoughts and there are thoughts….