having trouble seeing the print? אוֹפְּטִימָלִי, מֵיטָבִי Check out our spring coursesin Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat and Ramat Beit Shemesh The word meaning optimal you’re most likely to hear in Spoken Hebrew is אוֹפְּטִימָלִי (ohp-tee-MAH-lee). But the Israeli media is control of much of public opinion as well as public language, and today I saw an article in a major…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתנהג-1.m4a” /]לְהִתְנַהֵג To behave is to conduct oneself in a certain way. Thus Modern Hebrew draws upon the Biblical root נ.ה.ג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתנהג-2.m4a” /] meaning to conduct, to drive (such as a chariot) and creates the reflexive התפעל verb להתנהג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתנהג-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתנהג-3.m4a” /]הוא מתנהג בצורה פראית! He behaves in a wild manner! Other…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-1.m4a” /]אֳנִיָּה, סְפִינָה Hebrew has two words for ship, both appearing in Biblical Hebrew: אונייה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-2.m4a” /] and ספינה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-3.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-4.m4a” /]לחברת השייט הזאת יש עשר אונייות נוסעים. This cruise company has ten passenger ships. and [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/אונייה-5.m4a” /]הוא שירת בחיל הים בספינת טילים. He served in the navy on a…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/הנילוס-#.m4a” /]הַנִּילוּס While in the Bible this great Egyptian and African river is called יאור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/הנילוס-#.m4a” /] (probably from Ancient Egyptian), today’s Children of Israel use the Greek name, Νεῖλος – נילוס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/הנילוס-#.m4a” /] – in English, Nile. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/הנילוס-#.m4a” /]הנילוס והאמזונס הם הנהרות הארוכים ביותר בעולם. The Nile and the Amazon…