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To help you better understand the Hebrew media, here’s a handy glossary.
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Create sentences on our Facebook page using the terms from the glossary, and we’ll correct them if they’ve got errors!having trouble seeing the print? לִסְמוֹךְ Check out our spring courses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat, Ramat Beit Shemesh and Tzfat Deadline to save 200 shekels April 1 (THIS SUNDAY)! The Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world continues to detail the sacrificial practices in the Temple. One of event in the process…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/דוגרי-1.m4a” /]דּוּגְרִי Here’s another word that arrived in Hebrew via a foreign language: the slang word דוגרי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/דוגרי-1.m4a” /], straight up or direct. It originated in Turkish (doğru meaning right or correct), traveled south and came to Hebrew via the local Arabic word دُغْرِيّ (dughri) meaning straight (this I learned in a cab with an Arab driver). Imagine you’re an…
בְּהַצְלָחָה! How to go about wishing someone well varies from language to language and from culture to culture. In English, we say good luck – wishing the person good fortune, that the stars line up for them, that they find a four-leaf clover. In Hebrew, we say בְּהַצְלָחָה – literally, with success. A variation of…
זהירות Driving conscientiously, defensively and carefully prevents car accidents (I think money should be spent developing an automated personal transport system – that would really save lives). As an Israeli parts from his friend who has a drive ahead of him, he is likely to say to him, סַע בִּזְהִירוּת (sa biz-hee-ROOT), or…
פְּרִיצַת דֶּרֶךְ listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? To break into a house is לִפְרוֹץ לְתוֹך בַּיִת listen and repeat, where לפרוץ listen and repeat is a simple verb of the root פ.ר.צ (p.r.ts) and means to break in or to break through. Likewise, a פְּרִיצָה לְבַיִת listen and repeat is a break-in to (one’s) home….