taking requests
I’m now taking requests for Ktzat Ivrit content – so if you’d like to learn a particular word or phrase or see one featured, let me know by following the “comments – I’m taking requests!” link below.
I’m now taking requests for Ktzat Ivrit content – so if you’d like to learn a particular word or phrase or see one featured, let me know by following the “comments – I’m taking requests!” link below.
having trouble seeing the print? אֶהְיֶה יוֹתֵר חָכָם, אֶהְיֶה יוֹתֵר חֲכָמָה “When will the videos be ready?” “I’ll know better once I manage to find all the right images.” In Hebrew, instead of saying I’ll know better, we say, אֶהְיֶה יוֹתֵר חָכָם when a male is speaking and אֶהְיֶה יוֹתֵר חֲכָמָה when a female is speaking. Broken…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/זיכרון-מעורפל-#.m4a” /]זִכָּרוֹן מְעֻרְפָּל You may know the Hebrew word for memory – זיכרון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/זיכרון-מעורפל-#.m4a” /] – from יום הזיכרון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/זיכרון-מעורפל-#.m4a” /] – Memorial Day, which is coming up in Israel this week. A vague recollection or literally, a foggy memory, is זיכרון מעורפל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/זיכרון-מעורפל-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/זיכרון-מעורפל-#.m4a” /]יש לי זיכרון מעורפל של מה שקרה…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/מורשת-קרב-#.m4a” /]מוֹרֶשֶׁת קְרָב As a fact of life, an integral part of a nation’s heritage is almost always the wars and battles it fought for its existence*. So when a guide (corona permitting) takes the tourist of Israel to the fields of the Golan Heights, to the neighborhoods of Jerusalem or even to the…
בקשה If you know some Hebrew, you surely know the word for please: בְּבַקַשָּׁה (be-vah-kah-SHAH). This word means, literally, in request. The word for a request, likewise, is (bah-kah-SHAH). I’m taking בַּקַשּׁוֹת (bah-kah-SHOHT) for daily doses of Hebrew, people. Just hit the “comments” section below and send me some. And if you’d…