[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /]קוֹסֵם The Hebrew word for magic (or sorcery) is קסם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /], so it’s no surprise that קוסם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /] is a male magician, and קוסמת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /] is a female. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/קוסם-#.m4a” /]איך אספיק את כל זה? נראה לך שאני קוסם? How will I manage to do all this? You think…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /]מִתְלַמֵּד To learn or to study, in Hebrew, is the simple פעל verb ללמוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /]. To teach is the intensive פיעל verb ללמד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /]. Then there’s להתלמד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /], a reflexive התפעל verb. It means literally to teach oneself, though its more common forms are מתלמד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מתלמד-#.m4a” /] – trainee (for a male)…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לחיים-#.m4a” /]לְחָיַיִם You may have looked at the word in the title and thought, isn’t that the Hebrew word for “cheers”? When the words לחיים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לחיים-#.m4a” /] – cheeks, and לחיים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לחיים-#.m4a” /] – to life!, are unvocalized, they look identical, and can only be told apart from context. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/לחיים-#.m4a” /]לכולם יש…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מלוכה-#.m4a” /]מוֹנַרְכְיָה, מְלוּכָה When discussing the idea of monarchy in the academic or political sense, Israelis tend to use מונרכיה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מלוכה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מלוכה-#.m4a” /]פעם היו באירופה יותר מונרכיות ממה שיש היום. There used to be more monarchies in Europe than there are today. There’s also the word מלוכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/מלוכה-#.m4a” /], which also…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/שטרודל-#.m4a” /]שְׁטְרוּדֶל, כְּרוּכִית The at sign resembles the Austrian pastry, the strudel. Hebrew renders the s in its German pronunciation, so the common word for @ in Hebrew is שטרודל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/שטרודל-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/שטרודל-#.m4a” /]המייל לא נשלח כי שכחו להוסיף שטרודל. The email wasn’t sent because they forgot to add an at sign….
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…