חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
פִּשְׁעֵי מִלְחָמָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פשעי-מלחמה-1.mp3″ /] This is not the place to share opinions about Israel and war crimes, but I will enable you to use the Hebrew term at your next Tel Aviv, Jerusalem or university-campus-abroad cocktail party. The term is פִּשְׁעֵי מִלְחָמָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פשעי-מלחמה-1.mp3″ /] – literally, crimes of war: פִּשְׁעֵי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/פשעי-מלחמה-2.mp3″ /] is the construct…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/לא-נעים-לי-#.m4a” /]לֹא נָעִים לִי לְהַגִּיד You may know the word נעים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/לא-נעים-לי-#.m4a” /] from the polite expression נעים מאוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/לא-נעים-לי-#.m4a” /] – nice to meet you – literally, very pleasant. נעים has found its way into lots of Hebrew expressions, including לא נעים לי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/לא-נעים-לי-#.m4a” /] – I feel uncomfortable (it’s unpleasant for me) about something. Thus I hate…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לדבר-לעניין-1.m4a” /]לְדַבֵּר לָעִנְיָן When I was looking for an adequate translation for לדבר לעניין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/לדבר-לעניין-1.m4a” /] to English, Google Translate gave me to talk turkey – an expression I must have missed, having grown up in the 80s and 90s. In any case, to talk turkey means to talk business – to talk in a way that gets to the point….