having trouble seeing the print? לָדַעַת, לְהַכִּיר Learn to Speak Hebrew… With Us We know that the human brain has two hemispheres, left and right, that process information in two more or less distinct ways: rationally and emotionally – left and right, respectively. Modern Hebrew, perhaps unwittingly, employs this distinction in featuring two different words…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. Flashcards . Scatter . Gravity . Test [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף שבוע נעים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
הִצְטַנְּנוּת, הִתְקָרְרוּת, נָזֶּלֶת In Israel, as in the United States and probably everywhere else in the world, people catch the common cold all the time. I’ve caught it recently, as you might hear from the . Anyway, the cold is so common that it has three words in Hebrew. הִתְקָרְרוּת (heet-kah-reh-ROOT) comes from the…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/מטוס-פרטי-#.m4a” /]מָטוֹס פְּרָטִי Once upon a time, airplanes in English were called aeroplanes, Aeroplane has fallen out of use, at least in the US. Likewise, Israelis used to call a plane אווירון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/מטוס-פרטי-#.m4a” /], deriving from the word אוויר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/מטוס-פרטי-#.m4a” /] – air. But today the common word is מטוס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/מטוס-פרטי-#.m4a” /], which derives from the word לטוס[audioclip…
מַסָּע If you know a little Hebrew, you’re probably familiar with the word for to travel – לִנְסוֹע (leen-SOH-ah). A journey or trek is a מַסָּע (mah-SAH). This is not a journey in the sense of driving in your convertible from Tel Aviv up the coast to Netanya. Rather, this is the type of journey knights used…