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Summer Fruits in Hebrew
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Top 10 Terms for Private Lessons
An office brainstorm generated these top 10 Hebrew terms for how we like to present private lessons to prospective students. Enjoy! 1. שִׁיעוּר פְּרָטִי[audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/PL-#.m4a" /] - private lesson The word שיעור[audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/PL-#.m4a" /] - lesson - originally meant measure of something; a lesson is a fixed amount of material learned. [audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/PL-#.m4a" /]פרטי -...
Heating Up – in Hebrew
In the video I present the two Hebrew words for heat wave – חַמְסִין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/heating-up-1.mp3″ /] and שָׁרָב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/heating-up-2.mp3″ /] . A cognate of the Hebrew חֲמִשִּׁים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/heating-up-3.mp3″ /] , the word חמסין means fifty in Arabic spoken dialect, خمسين in Arabic characters. In the Egyptian dialect, it also refers to the devastating heat wave that…
Corona Optimism
Below are some must-know Hebrew terms on the topic of optimism in the time of COVID-19, based on the following conversation: [audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/corona-optimism-#.m4a" /] אישה - התקופה הזאת לא פשוטה. אבל אתה יודע מה, גם דברים טובים יוצאים ממנה. גבר - כמו מה? אישה - גילינו שאפשר לעבוד וללמוד גם מהבית, בצורה מקוונת. גבר -...
Going the Distance
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Traveling in Israel – in Hebrew
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