weekly VIDEO dose – how to wish someone a long life in Hebrew
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חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
having trouble seeing the print? עִקְבִי Perhaps you know the Hebrew word for heel, as in the back of your foot: עֵקֶב (EH-kev). It’s the root of the name Jacob – יַעֲקֹב (yah-ah-KOHV), who, according to the Biblical story, was born holding onto the עקב of his twin brother, Esau – עֵשָׂו (eh-SAHV). To…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/טיסה-#.m4a” /]טִיסָה Hebrew has two words for to fly in the air: there’s לעוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/טיסה-#.m4a” /], which is for living beings, and לטוס[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/טיסה-#.m4a” /] for aircraft of various types. A flight, therefore, is טיסה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/טיסה-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/טיסה-#.m4a” /]במקום להוציא כל כך הרבה כסף על טיסות, אפשר לטייל כאן בארץ. Instead of spending…
Conversation based on this Dose of Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-1.m4a” /]לְיַדֵּעַ This week we’ve seen the root י.ד.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-2.m4a” /] meaning knowledge put to use in a variety of words, including להודיע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-3.m4a” /] – to notify, מודעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-4.m4a” /] – advertisement and ידיעות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-5.m4a” /] – one of the words for news. Plugging this root into the active-intensive verb form, we get ליידע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ליידע-1.m4a” /] – to inform. For…
לחגוג You probably know the word חַג (hahg) – holiday, in the religious sense. To celebrate is לַחְגּוֹג (lah-GOHG). Here’s a video שחוגג sixty years of Israel’s independence (two years dated). In my mind, it celebrates the diversity of Jews in Israeli society, that, after thousands of years of separation and the widest…