Blog – Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ברח-לי-#.m4a” /]בָּרַח לִי מֵהָרֹאשׁ The simple way of saying I forgot in Hebrew is שכחתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ברח-לי-#.m4a” /], from the verb לשכוח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ברח-לי-#.m4a” /]. But if you want to get a little more colorful and say it slipped my mind, use ברח לי מהראש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ברח-לי-#.m4a” /] – literally, escaped for me from the head. For example:…

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…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/שקש-#.m4a” /]שַׂק שֵׁנָה, שק”ש The full expression for sleeping bag in Hebrew is a literal translation from English: שק שינה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/שקש-#.m4a” /]. For example, you might see in a storefront: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/שקש-#.m4a” /]כאן מוכרים שקי שינה. Here (we) sell sleeping bags. But most Israelis are likely to use the abbreviated version probably coined by busy…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/שלוקר-#.m4a” /]שְׁלוּקֶר I didn’t find a more generic word for this in English, so I resorted to using the brand name Camelbak to describe a שלוקר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/שלוקר-#.m4a” /], a small backpack filled with water, drawn via a tube to a hiker’s mouth. The word שלוקר comes from Yiddish (here’s a video I did a…

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…