The secrets of learning a new language

  לְהָזִיעַ   Can’t read Hebrew yet?     Exercise is particularly gratifying when we sweat, because this proves to ourselves that we’ve actually worked out. At least that’s my experience.   The Hebrew word for to sweat is לְהָזִיעַ  . It’s an active-causative verb of the root ז.י.ע (z.y.a).   For example:   רָקַדְתִּי כָּל כָּךְ…

לְבוּשׁ הוֹלֵם Can’t read Hebrew yet?   Someone pointed out that in my entry last week on different articles of clothing, I neglected to mention the word for clothing itself.   The simple word is בֶּגֶד , meaning garment. In the plural it’s בְּגָדִים   . For example:   הִיא לָבְשָׁה בְּגָדִים יָפִים. She wore nice clothes.    …