Author: Ami Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מסופר-1.m4a” /]סִפּוּר מְסֻפָּר If you’ve got some basic Hebrew down, you most probably know the word for book – ספר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מסופר-2.m4a” /]. You may also know the word for story – סיפור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מסופר-3.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מסופר-4.m4a” /]בספר הזה יש הרבה סיפורים מעניינים. In this book there are a lot of interesting stories. To tell…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מלומד-1.m4a” /]אָדָם מַשְׂכִּיל, אָדָם מְלֻמָּד The Hebrew word חינוך[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מלומד-2.m4a” /] means education when referring to non-collegiate learning, or to moral education such as that received at home. When talking about education as in higher education, the word is השכלה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מלומד-3.m4a” /], a noun form of the active-causative verb להשכיל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מלומד-4.m4a” /] – a higher-register word for to learn, to study and…

חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. Flashcards . Scatter . Space Race . Test [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אדמדם-1.m4a” /]אֲדַמְדַּם If you’ve got a bit of Hebrew under your belt, you likely know the word for red – אדום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אדמדם-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אדמדם-3.m4a” /]לבית הזה יש דלת אדומה. This house has a red door. But what if you want to describe something not quite red, but rather reddish? That’s אדמדם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אדמדם-1.m4a” /]. For example:…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אטום-1.m4a” /]אָטוּם If you were in Israel during the Gulf War, you know that a חדר אטום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אטום-2.m4a” /] is a sealed room. Although the primary and original meaning of אטום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אטום-1.m4a” /] is sealed or sealed off tangibly, it also means sealed off to plain view – opaque. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/אטום-3.m4a” /]אי אפשר לראות לתוך הבית כי החלונות אטומים….

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שקיפות-1.m4a” /]שְׁקִיפוּת When I say transparency, I’m not talking about a plastic slide placed in a projector (Don’t know what I’m talking about? You were probably born after 1990). That is שקופית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/שקיפות-2.m4a” /]. Rather, I’m referring to transparency in the abstract sense – that virtue of today’s most healthily growing companies and the noblest of nonprofits,…