חַיּוּת Can’t read Hebrew yet? The word vitality, the force of life, comes from the same root as viva as in Viva, Las Vegas! – Live, Las Vegas! Likewise, the Hebrew word for vitality – חַיּוּת – comes from the root ח.י.ה (kh.y.h) meaning life. For example: יֵשׁ…
having trouble seeing the print? בְּקִרְבַת מָקוֹם To say in Hebrew that something is close, you’d use a form of the word קָרוֹב (kah-ROHV). Likewise, you could talk about the nearby town – הָעֲיָרָה הַקְּרוֹבָה (hah-ah-yah-RAH hah-keh-roh-VAH). In that case, קרובה (a form of קרוב) is describing the town – the word is an adjective….
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/בינה-מלאכותית-1.m4a” /]בִּינָה מְלָאכוּתִית We’ve seen the word for artificial – מלאכותי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/בינה-מלאכותית-2.m4a” /]. What about artificial intelligence? That’s בינה מלאכותית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/בינה-מלאכותית-1.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/בינה-מלאכותית-3.m4a” /]בינה מלאכותית היא תחום מרתק ביותר. Artificial intelligence is a most fascinating field. Perhaps they chose בינה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/בינה-מלאכותית-4.m4a” /] as intelligence in this case instead of the more…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ריקודי-עם-1.m4a” /]רִקּוּדֵי עַם The word עם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ריקודי-עם-2.m4a” /] means people or nation in a down-to-earth sense. It serves as the basis for words such as עממי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ריקודי-עם-3.m4a” /] – popular, of the people as well as עמכה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ריקודי-עם-4.m4a” /] – literally, your people (with an added ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ריקודי-עם-5.m4a” /]) – an informal word referring to what some might call the simple people. עם…
רַכֶּבֶת תַּחְתִּית Can’t read Hebrew yet? The word תַּחַת means below or under, while מִתַּחַת means underneath (literally, from under) as in: הַנְּיָרוֹת נִמְצָאִים מִתַּחַת לַשֻּׁלְחָן. The papers are under the table. תחת also means one’s behind in slang. תַּחְתִּית means the bottom or lower part of something,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ברור-#.m4a” /]בָּרוּר ברור (use ברורה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ברור-#.m4a” /] for something feminine such as the Mishnah) means clear both in the literal sense… [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ברור-#.m4a” /]יש לכתוב בכתב יד ברור! Write in clear (legible) handwriting! …as well as in the figurative, explanatory sense: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ברור-#.m4a” /]אמרתי ככה, וזהו – מה לא ברור? I said it like this, and…