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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…
how to say “ceremony” in Hebrew
טֶקֶס Check out our summer Hebrew classes for adults and teens! This week and next are loaded with טְקָסִים (teh-kah-SEEM) – ceremonies – here in Israel: for יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה (yohm hah-shoh-AH) – Holocaust (Remembrance) Day this past Monday and for יוֹם הַזִּכּרוֹן (yohm hah-zee-kah-ROHN) – Memorial Day (for the soldiers and victims of terror). Immediately…
how to say “dialogue” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דיאלוג-1.m4a” /]דּוּ-שִׂיחַ, הִדָּבְרוּת, דִּיאָלוֹג There’s dialogue in the literal sense of two people carrying a conversation. Then there’s dialogue in the more general sense, such as two nations engaging in a peace process. Dialogue in the literal sense, in Hebrew is דו-שיח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דיאלוג-2.m4a” /], where שיח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דיאלוג-3.m4a” /] means conversation and -דו[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/דיאלוג-4.m4a” /] indicates the number two, that this conversation…
how to say “a stroke of brilliance” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/הברקה-#.m4a” /]הַבְרָקָה When one has a stroke of brilliance, it’s like a light bulb has suddenly lit up… or a bolt of lightning – ברק[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/הברקה-#.m4a” /] – has hit. Thus the Hebrew word for stroke of brilliance is הברקה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/הברקה-#.m4a” /], as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/הברקה-#.m4a” /]יש לי הברקה! I have a stroke of brilliance!…
how to say “kettle” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/קומקום-1.m4a” /]קוּמְקוּם Nothing like a hot drink on a cold day. The Hebrew word for an apparatus that can help prepare such a drink is קומקום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/קומקום-1.m4a” /]. In context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/קומקום-2.m4a” /]תרתיח מים בקומקום. Boil water in the kettle. (spoken to a male) and [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/קומקום-3.m4a” /]קומקום בשווי מאתיים שקלים בתשעים ותשעה שקלים…