לִצְפּוֹר I’m originally from LA, where you only honk your car horn if it’s an emergency… or if you’re Israeli. I’ve lived in Israel, though, long enough now that I sometimes honk to teach someone a lesson or to express my disappointment. I’ve acclimated. To honk in Hebrew is לצפור, while a horn is צופר…
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…
לְהַקְדִּים רְפוּאָה לְמַכָּה My dentist focuses on preventative dentistry – רפואת שיניים מונעת. Now, רפואה מונעת – preventative medicine – is a Modern-Hebrew expression. But there’s another expression, a much older one but still very much alive today: להקדים רפואה למכה – to precede the antidote (the medicine) to the blow. Basically, to plan ahead. For…
לְהַגְבִּיל אֶת עַצְמוֹ It’s no fun to limit ourselves (no cake today!), but hey, how else are we supposed to grow? (or shrink, in the case of the cake) A border or limit is גבול, as in: השמים הם הגבול. The sky’s the limit. To set up a limit – to limit – is להגביל, so…
10 Hebrew Color Words 1. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/אביב-#.m4a” /]אדום – red Colors describe something, so they’re adjectives. Which means that in Hebrew there are two versions – masculine and feminine. Red in the masculine is אדום, as in הים האדום – the Red Sea. In the feminine it’s אדומה, as in: כיפה אדומה – Little…