having trouble seeing the print? בְּיָד רְחָבָה Watch a demo video of one of our Hebrew courses. Class starts October 30 around the country. Register by October 11 to save NIS 200. Languages in general often make use of concrete images to express abstract ideas – we call this figurative language. Here’s a…
having trouble seeing the print? לְאַלֵּף Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s 2012 Course Calendars! …to be found the branch homepages Last week I introduced the Hebrew word for studio – אֻלְפָּן (ool-PAHN). I explained that it comes from the root א.ל.פ (a.l.p) which, in Aramaic, means teaching. Likewise, the word for to train an animal is לְאַלֵּף (leh-ah-LEF), an…
הַלַּהֲקָה הָאֲהוּבָה עָלַי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להקה-1.mp3″ /] The English word for band (something bonded), in the interpersonal sense, might refer to a group of brothers, a group of thieves or a group of musicians playing in sync. Hebrew’s got a parallel word – לַהֲקָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להקה-2.mp3″ /] – that has been used since biblical times, where לַהֲקוֹת נְבִיאִים[audioclip…
לְהִסְתַּכֵּל עַל חֲצִי הַכּוֹס הַמְּלֵאָה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Is the glass half empty or half full? Conventional wisdom dictates: see the glass as half full. Hebrew joins a slew of languages that translate that important phrase, producing the dictum: צָרִיךְ לְהִסְתַּכֵּל עַל חֲצִי הַכּוֹס הַמְּלֵאָה, וְלֹא עַל חֲצִי הַכּוֹס הָרֵיקָה….
כּוֹשֶׁר At the end of today’s dose, you’ll find an opportunity to boost your fitness in order to help people in Israel with mental disabilities. Even if you just joined Ktzat Ivrit yesterday, you almost certainly know the Hebrew word for that which is fit to be eaten according to Jewish law…