[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/השפה-הארמית-#.m4a” /]הַשָּׂפָה הָאֲרָמִית Languages borrow from each other, especially ones like Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic, which are (or were, anyway) spoken in neighboring lands. So it should come as no surprise that a bit of Aramaic appears in the Torah, where Jacob (grandson of Abraham the Hebrew) calls the pile of stones meant to…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/דבר-נוסף-#.m4a” /]דָּבָר נוֹסָף In day-to-day Hebrew, the word דבר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/דבר-נוסף-#.m4a” /] means thing, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/דבר-נוסף-#.m4a” /]רציתי לדבר איתכם על כמה דברים. I wanted to speak with you guys about a few things. Something additional is נוסף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/דבר-נוסף-#.m4a” /], so that another thing or one more thing is דבר נוסף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/דבר-נוסף-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/דבר-נוסף-#.m4a”…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/טעם-נרכש-#.m4a” /]טַעַם נִרְכַּשׁ The Hebrew word for taste is טעם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/טעם-נרכש-#.m4a” /]. This is a very old word/root, which appears in the Arabic word for restaurant – مطعم[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/טעם-נרכש-#.m4a” /] (mat’am), and has a second meaning in Hebrew: meaning or point, as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/טעם-נרכש-#.m4a” /]יש בכלל טעם ללכת? Is there any point in going? But this…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מושב-קדמי-#.m4a” /]מוֹשָׁב קִדְמִי You may know the word מושב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מושב-קדמי-#.m4a” /] as referring to an agricultural settlement. But it’s also a seat, which becomes apparent when we see that the root is י.ש.ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מושב-קדמי-#.m4a” /] meaning sitting. A front seat is מושב קדמי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מושב-קדמי-#.m4a” /], where קדמי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מושב-קדמי-#.m4a” /] comes from the root ק.ד.מ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/מושב-קדמי-#.m4a” /]…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/עדיפויות-#.m4a” /]עֲדִיפוּיוֹת The Hebrew word for priorities – עדיפויות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/עדיפויות-#.m4a” /] – can be a bit difficult to get your tongue around. So let’s break it down. First of all, עדיפויות the plural form of עדיפות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/עדיפויות-#.m4a” /] – priority. Try saying it out loud (if you can’t see the play button click here)….
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…