Blog – Your Daily Dose of Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כלבלב-1.m4a” /]כְּלַבְלַב, גּוּר כְּלָבִים The Hebrew word for dog is כלב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כלבלב-2.m4a” /] for a male and כלבה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כלבלב-3.m4a” /] for a female. Using the basic word, a puppy is a כלבלב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חמוד-7.m4a” /] or a כלבלבה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כלבלב-4.m4a” /], for a male and female respectively. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/כלבלב-5.m4a” /]אימצנו כלבלב. We adopted a (male) puppy. But…

Correction: The title of yesterday’s email read רִבּוּי מְשִׁימוֹת, with a שׁ. The title should have read רִבּוּי מְשִׂימוֹת with a שׂ. The phrase means multitasking. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חלוקת-תפקידים-1.m4a” /]חֲלֻקַּת תַּפְקִידִים The Hebrew word for labor or work is עבודה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חלוקת-תפקידים-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/חלוקת-תפקידים-3.m4a” /]פעם מפלגת העבודה הובילה. The Labor party used to be the leading one (used…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ריבוי-משימות-1.m4a” /]רִבּוּי מְשִׂימוֹת The Hebrew word for task is משימה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ריבוי-משימות-2.m4a” /]. It derives from the root ש.י.מ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ריבוי-משימות-3.m4a” /] meaning to place or to put: a task is something a person might apply or put themselves to. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ריבוי-משימות-4.m4a” /]זאת משימה לא פשוטה. This is not a simple task. Multitasking is ריבוי משימות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ריבוי-משימות-1.m4a” /], where…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתחנן-1.m4a” /]אֲנִי מִתְחַנֵּן! The Hebrew word for to beg or to plead – להתחנן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתחנן-2.m4a” /] – goes all the way back to Biblical times. In fact, it appears in the title of last week’s Torah portion – ואתחנן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתחנן-3.m4a” /] – and I pleaded. Here’s an example in Modern Hebrew: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתחנן-4.m4a” /]אמא, אני מתחננת, תקני לנו…

חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. Flashcards . Scatter . Gravity . Test [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף שבוע נעים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend! =”410″> Flashcards . Scatter . Gravity . Test [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף שבוע…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/המצאה-1.m4a” /]הַמְצָאָה When I was growing up, some kids wanted to be firemen, others wanted to be sports stars. Most of the time, I wanted to be a movie director. But after watching episodes of Mr. Wizard, sometimes I also wanted to be an inventor. An invention, in Hebrew, is a ממציא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/המצאה-2.m4a” /] if…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מדע-1.m4a” /]מַדָּע If you’ve got basic Hebrew, you know the expressions אני יודע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מדע-2.m4a” /] and אני יודעת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מדע-3.m4a” /] – I know, spoken by a male and a female, respectively. The root of these words is י.ד.ע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מדע-4.m4a” /], which appears in other words such as להודיע[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מדע-5.m4a” /] – to inform, מודיעין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מדע-6.m4a” /]…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/העת-החדשה-1.m4a” /]הָעֵת הַחֲדָשָׁה This period of time called in English modern history or the modern era is called other names in Hebrew such as the basically transliterated היסטוריה מודרנית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/העת-החדשה-2.m4a” /], but a proper Hebrew term is העת החדשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/העת-החדשה-1.m4a” /]. It means literally, the new time. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/העת-החדשה-3.m4a” /]העת החדשה ממשיכה להביא איתה אתגרים…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/גירוש-ספרד-1.m4a” /]גֵּרוּשׁ סְפָרַד The Modern-Hebrew word for Spain is ספרד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/גירוש-ספרד-2.m4a” /], though the name in Biblical Hebrew refers to a land far away from Israel, most likely in present-day western Turkey (Wikipedia). In Mishnaic times the land that is today Spain was called אספמיה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/גירוש-ספרד-3.m4a” /], probably a Phoenician version of the Hebrew אי…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/היסטוריה-של-1.m4a” /]הִיסְטוֹרְיָה שֶׁל עַם יִשְֹרָאֵל, הִיסְטוֹרְיָה יְהוּדִית You may have struggled through the first word in the title, but soon hit yourself on the forehead realizing that היסטוריה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/היסטוריה-של-2.m4a” /] is basically history (well, historia) in Hebrew letters. And while היסטוריה יהודית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/היסטוריה-של-3.m4a” /] means Jewish history and is a term used fairly often, the preferred term among…

חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. Flashcards . Scatter . Gravity . Test [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף שבוע נעים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend! =”410″> Flashcards . Scatter . Gravity . Test [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף שבוע…