חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
having trouble seeing the print? תּוֹצָאָה check out music.ulpan.com A result is something that comes out of an action. For example, a colorful wall comes out of or results from the act of painting. Modern Hebrew thus employs the root י.צ.א (y.ts.a) meaning exiting to produce the word for result: תּוֹצָאָה . For example: קִיר צִבְעוֹנִי הוּא תּוֹצָאָה שֶׁל צְבִיעָה. A…
שִׁלְשׁוֹם Can’t read Hebrew yet? Today, in Hebrew, is הַיּוֹם . Yesterday is אֶתְמוֹל . And two days ago? That’s שִׁלְשׁוֹם . For example: דִּבַּרְתִּי אִתּוֹ שִׁלְשׁוֹם. I spoke with him the day before yesterday. The modern usage of שלשום as the day before yesterday…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מילת-מפתח-1.m4a” /]מִלַּת מַפְתֵּחַ From what I hear, search engine optimization efforts are shying away from focusing on keywords and keyword placement, and focusing more on producing genuine content. But necessary or not, the Hebrew expression for keyword is מילת מפתח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מילת-מפתח-1.m4a” /] – literally, word of key. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מילת-מפתח-2.m4a” /]מה מילת המפתח הכי חשובה באתר שלכם?…
having trouble seeing the print? לַעֲבוֹר דִּירָה In English, we talk about moving residence from one place to another. The Hebrew word for residence is דִּירָה ( ) – which is also the word for apartment or flat. But to move is literally, לָזוּז ( ), and that’s not what we say in Hebrew. The Hebrew expression…
לְדַרְבֵּן One of the students in my Level 5 class invited us to her home in Gush Etzion, where her husband (a tour guide) gave us a history of the region spoken all in Hebrew. She, the student, also served us really tasty home-baked banana-chocolate-chip cake. After our introduction to the region, we all went…