In this episode, Foreigncy speaks with Ami Steinberger who is the founder and CEO of Ulpan La-Inyan. Ulpan La-Inyan takes a unique approach to help Hebrew learners master the essentials of everyday conversation and functional Hebrew through a number of approaches.
להפנים With some basic Hebrew you’d know how to say inside, as in I’d rather sit inside – בִּפְנִים (beef-NEEM). Here’s how to say to internalize: (le-hahf-NEEM). For example, הִפְנַמְנוּ אֶת הַמֶּסֶר (heef-NAHM-noo et hah-MEH-sehr) – we’ve internalized the message. Today’s “three-weeks” call to action This Shabbat, I’m going to…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/חידון-#.m4a” /]בּוֹחַן, חִידוֹן A test – מבחן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/חידון-#.m4a” /] – is usually no fun. But a quiz can be either daunting or entertaining, depending on the context. Hebrew has two words for quiz, one for each occasion: בוחן [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/חידון-#.m4a” /]- a quiz at school, and חידון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/חידון-#.m4a” /] – a quiz used as a game, often trivia….
יְרוּשַׁלְמִי Can’t read Hebrew yet? One of the things that make residents of this city unique is their response to snow. While Torontonians and New Yorkers and Parisians get on with their daily lives when it snows, Jerusalemites scramble for days before the cold white stuff starts coming down, stocking up…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/בוא-הנה-#.m4a” /]בּוֹא הֵנָּה You might hear a mother say to her son the literal בוא לפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/בוא-הנה-#.m4a” /] – come (to) here – but you’re more likely to hear her say to him, בוא הנה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/בוא-הנה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/בוא-הנה-#.m4a” /]בוא הנה, אני רוצה להחליף איתך מילה. Come here, I want to have…
having trouble seeing the print? לְלֹא הֶרֶף Check out our world-class conversational Hebrew program Last week we saw the Hebrew expressions for consistently. “יְשוּעַת הַשֵּׁם כְּהֶרֶף עַיִן” “Divine salvation is as the blink of an eye.” Another useful expression is that for incessantly or continuously: לְלֹא הֶרֶף. The word הֶרֶף in this expression appears in Biblical Hebrew, where…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הלוך-ושוב-1.m4a” /]הָלוֹך וָשׁוֹב, הָלוֹך חָזוֹר When you get on the bus in Israel and want to ask for a round-trip ticket, you should say: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הלוך-ושוב-2.m4a” /]כרטיס הלוך ושוב, בבקשה. A round-trip ticket, please. “בבקשה”[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הלוך-ושוב-3.m4a” /] is optional. הלוך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הלוך-ושוב-4.m4a” /] means going, and ושוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/הלוך-ושוב-5.m4a” /] means and returning. But you could also use a…