how to say “studio” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/אולפן-#.m4a” /]אוּלְפָּן

English speakers wanting to learn Hebrew know the word אולפן to mean Hebrew-language school.

But it also means studio, as in:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/אולפן-#.m4a” /]ברוכים הבאים לשידור היומי – כאן באולפן היום אנחנו מארחים את…

Welcome to the daily broadcast – here in the studio today we’re hosting… 

What’s the connection between a Hebrew school and a radio station?

The Ulpan La-Inyan Jerusalem branch and Jerusalem Radio being housed in the same building aside, אולפן means place of study in the original Aramaic. So while we use בית ספר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/אולפן-#.m4a” /] to mean school, אולפן has its place of honor as a special school where people go to learn Modern Hebrew. And since studio in English comes from study, the curators of Modern Hebrew decided to use אולפן to refer to a studio as well.

The פיעל verb לאלף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/אולפן-#.m4a” /] means to train an animal.

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