הִזְדַמְּנוּת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הזדמנות-1.mp3″ /] Earlier this week we saw the Hebrew word for availability – זמינות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הזדמנות-2.mp3″ /], which comes from the root ז.מ.נ (z.m.n) meaning time. Another word deriving from that root is הזדמנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הזדמנות-1.mp3″ /] – opportunity. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/הזדמנות-3.mp3″ /]פסימיסט רואה בהזדמנות קושי. אופטימיסט רואה בקושי הזדמנות. (וינסטון צ’רצ’יל) A pessimist sees the difficulty…
לְהִתְרַבּוֹת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? If you know a bit of Hebrew, you probably know the word for a lot or much – הַרְבֵּה listen and repeat – as in: אֲנִי רוֹצֶה לָדַעַת הַרְבֵּה עִבְרִית. I (a male) want to know a lot of Hebrew. listen The root ר.ב.ה…
קָשּׁוּב listen to this word pronounced We need your feedback! Let us know what kind of Hebrew fall course schedule we might offer you! As I’ve continued reading the chapter on attachment in Daniel J. Siegel’s book, The Developing Mind, I’ve seen that infants learn their place the world by how much sensitivity…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מספר-1.m4a” /]מִסְפָּר If you’ve got some basic Hebrew under your belt, you probably know the word for number – מספר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מספר-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מספר-2.m4a” /]מה מספר הטלפון שלך? What’s your (a female’s) phone number? But you may not have realized that מספר is related to storytelling – סיפור סיפורים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מספר-3.m4a” /]. Unlike אבטיח[audioclip…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקשורת-1.m4a” /]תִּקְשֹׁרֶת Another useful Hebrew root is ק.ש.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקשורת-2.m4a” /] meaning tying or binding, so that a bond is a קשר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקשורת-3.m4a” /], as is the knot in your shoelaces. One of the applications of ק.ש.ר is the word for the act of tying people together in ideas, or communication – תקשורת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקשורת-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/תקשורת-4.m4a” /]יש…
