Ktzat Ivrit Expansion Project
Founder and CEO, Ulpan La-Inyan
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תגבור-1.m4a” /]תִּגְבּוּר A few years back I did a post on positive reinforcement – חיזוק חיובי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תגבור-2.m4a” /]. That phrase means literally positive strengthening, where חיזוק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תגבור-3.m4a” /] means strengthening. Another kind of reinforcement is תגבור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תגבור-1.m4a” /], of the root ג.ב.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תגבור-4.m4a” /] meaning might. This is reinforcement in the sense of a team compensating for weakness by adding members. For…
אִמָּהוֹת If you’ve been around Israelis, you surely know the word for mom – אמא. But you may be surprised to learn that this term of endearment, אמא, is actually a word in Aramaic, while the Hebrew word for mother is אם. What about multiple mothers? That’s אמהות, as in: כל האמהות באות לקחת את…
having trouble seeing the print? לַחַן, מַנְגִּינָה, נְעִימָה Get talking… in Hebrew. Our Level 1 course starts Sunday, November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv The sound of music… in Hebrew, there are at least three words referring to this: a more casual word, a literary one and a professional one. The more casual word is מַנְגִּינָה…
having trouble seeing the print? מְהַמֵּם DEADLINE THIS THURSDAY! Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! image compliments of Lioz Guttman, Ulpan La-Inyan instructor in Tel Aviv It hasn’t been an easy couple of weeks for the various religious groups within Jewish Israel. The posted presented to the left of this text makes light…