Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/בהחלט-#.m4a” /]בְּהֶחְלֵט Like English, Hebrew has many words for expressing certainty and self assurance. One of these is בהחלט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/בהחלט-#.m4a” /] – definitely. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/בהחלט-#.m4a” /]זאת בהחלט תקופה קשה. This is definitely a difficult time. If you’ve seen the TV series Shtisel, you’ve heard one of the main characters, Shulem, saying בהחלט…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]אוֹתִיּוֹת כְּתָב You may have heard that Hebrew has a 22-letter alphabet. That’s true, but there are two caveats: Five of those letters have a slightly different form – in most cases an elongated form – when appearing at the end of a word – כ-ך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /], [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a” /]מ-ם, [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/אותיות-כתב-#.m4a”…
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…
Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew
Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/כתיב-מלא-#.m4a” /]כְּתִיב מָלֵא If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you may have noticed that sometimes the word in the title of a post is spelled differently from the same word in the body. The reason is that when a word is vowelized in Hebrew, its pronunciation is clear, but when there…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /]מַשָּׂאִית We saw yesterday that a carrier of a virus is a נשא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /] if he’s male and נשאית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /] if she’s female. The root of these is נ.ש.א[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /]. Another good word to know of the same root is משאית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /] – truck. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/משאית-#.m4a” /]צריך רישיון מיוחד…