גּוֹרָלִי Check out Ulpan La-Inyan demo classes – tonight in Raanana, tomorrow in Jerusalem! In the Book of Esther, the Jewish-Persian queen is faced with a fateful decision: either risk her life by attempting to persuade the king to spare the Jewish people, or sit “pretty” in the palace while her people are systematically wiped out….
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…
אֲסִיר תּוֹדָה The night after I fell off my bike, I woke up at 4am with pain that prompted me to get in a cab and head to the טֶרֶם (TEH-rem) urgent care center. They gave me a גֶּבֶס – cast (GHEH-ves) – because it wasn’t yet clear whether my scaphoid bone was broken or sprained. That…
having trouble seeing the print? לְפַטְפֵּט How’s your Hebrew? Only 10 spots available per course. Save 200 shekels by Thursday. Sign up now! לְדַבֵּר (leh-dah-BEHR) is to speak or to talk, presumably about things of substance. But if the דיבור (dee-BOOR) – speech – is decidedly without substance – in other words, a simple chitchat,…
בִּמְיֻחָד, בִּפְרָט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/במיוחד-1.mp3″ /] The Hebrew word for special is מְיֻחָד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/במיוחד-2.mp3″ /], so especially – literally, with special or with “specialness” – is בִּמְיֻחָד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/במיוחד-3.mp3″ /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/במיוחד-4.mp3″ /]הוּא לֹא גָּבוֹהַּ בִּמְיֻחָד. He’s not especially tall. Now, that’s the basic word. A more polished, specific expression in English is in particular, which…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/מסתערבים-#.m4a” /]מִסְתַּעַרְבִים The series Fauda has placed מסתערבים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/מסתערבים-#.m4a” /] in the minds and hearts of enthusiasts around the world – Jews, Muslims and everyone else: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/מסתערבים-#.m4a” /]פאודה היא סדרה ישראלית על יחידת מסתערבים. Fauda is an Israeli series about a unit of mistaarvim. The word מסתערבים (in the masculine-singular, מסתערב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/מסתערבים-#.m4a” /]) refers today to Jews…