[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/המסך-הגדול-#.m4a” /]הַמָּסָךְ הַגָּדוֹל The Hebrew word for screen is also as old as the Bible. While back then it didn’t refer to the flat object you’re looking at right now, today מסך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/המסך-הגדול-#.m4a” /] appears on smart phones, tablets, TV’s… and the big screen at the movie theater – המסך הגדול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/המסך-הגדול-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip…
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…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/לפי-דעתי-#.m4a” /]לְפִי דַּעֲתִי An opinion, in Hebrew, is דעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/לפי-דעתי-#.m4a” /]. Its three letters make up the root of other words as well, such as לדעת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/לפי-דעתי-#.m4a” /] – to know, מודעות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/לפי-דעתי-#.m4a” /] – awareness, and מדע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/לפי-דעתי-#.m4a” /] – science, among others. My opinion is דעתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/לפי-דעתי-#.m4a” /]. And in my opinion – or, more…
having trouble seeing the print? פְּנִימִי, חִיצוֹנִי listen and repeat Conversational Hebrew Classes This Fall, in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Deadline This Sunday – Register Now! In yesterday’s dose, we saw the Hebrew expressions for introvert and extrovert. Something internal in Hebrew is פְּנִימִי listen and repeat, coming from the root פ.נ.מ (p.n.m) meaning…