having trouble seeing the print? אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן Level 4 Hebrew course opening in Tel Aviv this Sunday! Some parts of speech have very clear translations from one language to another. For example, a noun such as tree has a clear equivalent in all languages with Hebrew being no exception: עֵץ (ets). Likewise, the verb לְהַזְמִין…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/להסתגל-#.m4a” /]לְהִסְתַּגֵּל Here’s a word that sums up a lot of what we’ve been doing the past year: להסתגל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/להסתגל-#.m4a” /] – to adapt. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/להסתגל-#.m4a” /]לאט לאט למדנו להסתגל למציאות החדשה. Slowly we’ve learned to adapt to the new reality. להסתגל is a התפעל verb of the root ס.ג.ל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/להסתגל-#.m4a” /], which…
having trouble seeing the print? שֵׁם, מוֹנִיטִין Vocabulary builder for the 2013 Israel elections this week’s video! Since the Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world is שְׁמוֹת – names of, I thought it appropriate to introduce another important word related the common word, name – שֵׁם . A reputation in English can also…
לְכָל דָּבָר וְעִנְיָין Growing up I would hear teachers in school use the expression “for all intensive purposes.” I knew what it meant but didn’t think about the words themselves. Only when I saw the expression in a book did the penny drop – it’s “for all intents and purposes.” Now it started making more…