having trouble seeing the print? לְשַׁפֵּר, לְהִשְׁתַּפֵּר Learn to speak Hebrew! Our Hebrew Level 1 intensive class starts November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Class size 10 max. Spots are going fast! In English it’s one word, but if you pay close attention, you’ll realize that the verb improve is used in…
having trouble seeing the print? קָרִיא Learn to speak Hebrew! Our Hebrew Level 1 intensive class starts November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Class size 10 max. Spots are going fast! Yesterday we saw the word לָעִיס (lah-EES), meaning chewy or chew-able. This adjective comes from the simple verb, לִלְעוֹס. To this day,…
having trouble seeing the print? לָעִיס Learn to speak Hebrew! Our Hebrew Level 1 intensive class starts November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Class size 10 max. Spots are going fast! Whereas the Hebrew word for bubble gum, מַסְטִיק (MAHS-teek), comes from Ancient Greek and is related to the English word…
having trouble seeing the print? חֲלוֹם שֶׁהִתְגַּשֵּׁם Learn to speak Hebrew! Our Hebrew Level 1 intensive class starts November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. A while back I did an entry on making a dream come true – in the active sense. The expression was לְהַגְשִׁים חֲלוֹם (leh-hahg-SHEEM khah-LOHM), with להגשים being…
having trouble seeing the print? אָבְדָן Learn to speak Hebrew! Our Hebrew Level 1 intensive class starts November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Today marks the passing (here’s an entry about how to say that in Hebrew) of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, head of the world-renowned Mir Yeshiva. The 5,000 students of the Mir were joined by tens of thousands of…
having trouble seeing the print? חַיְדַּק For me and for the majority of Ktzat Ivrit’s readership (except those in the southern hemisphere), it’s flu season. A useful Hebrew word to know is that for bacteria – חַיְדַָקִים (khah-ee-dah-KEEM). This is the plural. A single bacterium is a חַיְדַּק (khah-ee-DAHK). Like the subject of last entry involving the word…
having trouble seeing the print? בֶּלֶם Get talking… in Hebrew. Our Level 1 course starts Sunday, November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv The more colloquial Hebrew word for the brakes in your car is בְּרֶקְס (breks). That’s because when Hebrew speakers first encountered this accessory to the modern-day vehicle, the automobile, there wasn’t yet a Hebrew word for…
having trouble seeing the print? מוֹלֶדֶת The Torah portion that will be read tomorrow morning by Jews the world over opens with G-d commanding Abram (before he is renamed Abraham) to “go and leave… the place of your birth… to a land that I will show you” – לֵךְ לְךָ… וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ… אֶל הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר אַרְאֶך (lekh leh-KHAH… oo-mee-moh-lahd-teh-KHAH… el hah-AH-retz ah-SHEHR…
having trouble seeing the print? מְסִבַּת פְּרֵדָה Get talking… in Hebrew.Our Level 1 course starts November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv As you may know, Ulpan La-Inyan proudly works in cooperation with two organizations that serve the English-speaking community of Israeli residents and tourists: Telfed (The South African Zionist Federation) and AACI (Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel)….
having trouble seeing the print? לַחַן, מַנְגִּינָה, נְעִימָה Get talking… in Hebrew. Our Level 1 course starts Sunday, November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv The sound of music… in Hebrew, there are at least three words referring to this: a more casual word, a literary one and a professional one. The more casual word is מַנְגִּינָה…
having trouble seeing the print? רְאִיָּה, חָזוֹן Get talking… in Hebrew. Our Level 1 course starts Sunday, November 20 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv On one hand… Better Place‘s Renault electric car has recently arrived in Israel. Founder and CEO Shai Agassi’s vision is “עוֹלָם שֶׁאֵינוֹ תָּלוּי עוֹד בְּנֶפְט” (oh-LAHM sheh-eh-ee-NOH tah-LOO-ee ohd beh-NEFT) – “a world that no longer…