Blog – Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/יכולנו-#.m4a” /]יָכֹלְתִּי If you’ve got some basic Hebrew under your belt, you probably know how to say I can – אני יכול[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/יכולנו-#.m4a” /] if you’re male, and אני יכולה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/יכולנו-#.m4a” /] if you’re female. Thus Barrack Obama’s statement, in Hebrew, would be: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/יכולנו-#.m4a” /]כן, אנחנו יכולים! Yes, we can! To say this in…

[audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/21.10.2018-conv-1.m4a" /] - תנסי לישון קצת. - למה? אני בכלל לא עייפה. - כן, אבל אם לא תנוחי עכשיו, לא יהיה לך כוח לרקוד בחתונה הלילה. - Try to sleep a little. - Why? I'm not tired at all. - Yeah, but if you don't rest now, you won't have energy to dance at...

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לנסות-#.m4a” /]לְנַסּוֹת Hebrew has a few words for to try, depending on the type of trying. להשתדל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לנסות-#.m4a” /] (a התפעל verb) and לעשות מאמץ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לנסות-#.m4a” /] mean to make an effort. But the most generic word for to try is the פיעל verb לנסות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/לנסות-#.m4a” /]. For example, you might say to a boy or a man:…

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…

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[audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/14.10.2018-conv-5.m4a" /] - חלק מעליית הנוער הגיעו ארצה באוניות מעפילים. - סבתא, הכרת אנשים שעלו ארצה ככה? - כן, וגם אתה מכיר אחת מהן. - את מי? - אותי. - Some of Youth Aliyah arrived to Israel via maapilim ships. - Grandma, did you know people who made aliyah that way? - Yes, and you...

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/מעפילים-#.m4a” /]מַעְפִּילִים This is a term with no real English equivalent: מעפילים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/מעפילים-#.m4a” /] (the closest translation I found was internee, but who knows what that is). The Modern-Hebrew term refers to Jews, mostly displaced persons after the Holocaust, trying to break the blockade of the British Mandate before the State of Israel was established. Here’s…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/עליית-הנוער-#.m4a” /]עֲלִיַּת הַנֹּעַר With a Germany of the 1930s becoming more and more hostile towards Jews, a woman named Recha Freier took action and launched a movement called עליית הנוער[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/עליית-הנוער-#.m4a” /] – youth aliyah, or immigration of the youth to the Land of Israel. Here’s the term in context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/עליית-הנוער-#.m4a” /]הרבה יהודים ניצלו מהשואה בזכות…

[audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/14.10.2018-conv-4.m4a" /] - הרבה יהודים ניצלו מהשואה בזכות עליית הנוער. - מה זה עליית הנוער? - עליית הנוער היא תנועה שנוסדה בגרמניה לפני השואה, על מנת להביא יהודים צעירים לארץ ישראל. - Many Jews were saved from the Holocaust thanks to Youth Aliyah. - What's Youth Aliyah? - Youth Aliyah is the movement that...

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/עולה-חדש-#.m4a” /]עוֹלֶה חָדָשׁ Mind you, this special term refers specifically to new immigrants to Israel. An עולֶה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/עולה-חדש-#.m4a” /] (a male) or an עולָה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/עולה-חדש-#.m4a” /] (female) is someone who has made aliyah – immigrated to Israel (literally, one who ascends). Thus an עולה חדש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/עולה-חדש-#.m4a” /] or an עולה חדשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/עולה-חדש-#.m4a” /] is a new immigrant….

[audioclip url="https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/14.10.2018-conv-3.m4a" /] - כמה שנים אתם כבר בארץ? - הקיץ יהיה ארבעים שנה מאז שעלינו. - זה המון זמן. - כן, פעם היינו עולים חדשים. אבל היום אנחנו אזרחים רגילים. - How many years have you been in Israel? - This summer will be forty years since we made aliyah. - That's a long...