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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![audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/למשוך-1.m4a” /]לִמְשׁוֹךְ To pull might include pulling something physical, such as a door with a sign on it: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/למשוך-2.m4a” /]משוך! Pull! …or something non-physical such as attention – to attract. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/למשוך-3.m4a” /]היא מושכת את תשומת הלב של כולם. She attracts everyone’s attention. Thus attraction is משיכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/למשוך-4.m4a” /]… as in gravity, as…
having trouble seeing the print? לְאַלֵּף Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s 2012 Course Calendars! …to be found the branch homepages Last week I introduced the Hebrew word for studio – אֻלְפָּן (ool-PAHN). I explained that it comes from the root א.ל.פ (a.l.p) which, in Aramaic, means teaching. Likewise, the word for to train an animal is לְאַלֵּף (leh-ah-LEF), an…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/התנדבות-1.m4a” /]הִתְנַדְּבוּת The concept of volunteering goes all the way to Biblical times, where the root נ.ד.ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/התנדבות-2.m4a” /] of that meaning first appears. To volunteer is להתנדב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/התנדבות-3.m4a” /], a reflexive-intensive התפעל verb. Likewise, volunteering is התנדבות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/התנדבות-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/התנדבות-4.m4a” /]יש מקום התנדבות מעניין בשכונת בקעה בירושלים. There’s an interesting volunteering place in…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/חדר-לידה-#.m4a” /]חֲדַר לֵידָה If ללדת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/חדר-לידה-#.m4a” /] is to give birth, לידה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/חדר-לידה-#.m4a” /] is the act of giving birth or delivering a baby. So a delivery room is חדר לידה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/חדר-לידה-#.m4a” /]. For example, a nurse might say to an expecting father: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/חדר-לידה-#.m4a” /]בוא מהר, היא כבר נמצאת בחדר הלידה! Come fast, she’s already in the…