חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
הֶחְזֵר כַּסְפִּי listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? A refund in Hebrew is הֶחְזֵר כַּסְפִּי listen and repeat – literally, a returning of funds. But more often than not, you’ll hear people abbreviating the expression to simply החזר listen and repeat. For example: תִּרְאִי אִם תּוּכְלִי לְקַבֵּל הֶחְזֵר מֵהַחֲנוּת. See if you can…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
לנסוע After my six days in Beit Alpha in the north of Israel (i.e. a two-hour ride from the center), I got on a bus out of the absorption center en route to Beit She’an, then a bus from Beit She’an to Jerusalem, and now I’m riding a third bus to family in Kfar…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הנחה-1.m4a” /]הֲנָחָה As failing to recognize a discount could mean paying too much for a product, this word is core vocabulary. In Hebrew, a discount is הנחה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הנחה-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הנחה-2.m4a” /]הנחה של 50% על כל פריט בחנות! 50% discount on every item in the shop! The root of הנחה is נ.ו.ח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הנחה-3.m4a” /] meaning resting…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/נהג-תורן-#.m4a” /]נֶהָג תּוֹרָן If you’ve been on an Israeli bus, you probably know the word נהג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/נהג-תורן-#.m4a” /] (usually pronounced with an ah sound in the first syllable: נָהג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/נהג-תורן-#.m4a” /]). Due to the fact that when passengers call out !נהג loudly enough the door inevitably opens, some English speakers have mistakenly concluded that נהג…