Vocabulary

Free Hebrew lessons – June 2010 – Training – Day 28:

Hi,

Can you feel the heat outside?

If you are still having cold weather in June, plan your next vacation for June 2011 in Israel and discover what “hot” really is! In the meantime, let’s learn some more Hebrew

Today we’ll enrich our vocabulary. 

Our previous lesson was actually a note about yom ha’huledet sheli (my birthday), and I’m glad that so many of you took part in that sale and celebrated with me. In the lesson before that we learned, how to say daughter (bat) and son (ben).

Last Sunday we celebrated Father’s Day. Remember, in Lesson 21 we learned the words for the members of our family, such as: ima (mother/mom), aba (father/daddy), a^ (brother), a^ot (sister), savta (grandmother) and saba (grandfather). 

Today’s menu: Vocabulary

Attention: The underlined letters represent the accent.

Today we’ll learn some new words, so please clear some of your memory cells, pour yourself something to drink and make yourself comfortable… Here it comes:

Examples:
   – There is good air (on the top of the hill) – Yesh avir tov…(be’rosh ha’giv-a).
         Air is masculine, that’s why the word “good” is in the masculine form – tov.
         The feminine form of “good” is tova.
         Let’s put it in a table:

   – I need fire (to heat the rice) – Ani tsari^ esh (le^amem et ha’orez).
         To heat – le^amem / Rice – orez.
        

   – The earth is dry – ha’adama yevesha.
         Earth is feminine, that’s why the word “dry” is in the feminine form –  yevesha.  
         The masculine form of “dry” is yavesh.
         Look at the table below…
         

   – The water is cold – Ha’maim karim.
         In Hebrew, water only has a plural form, that’s why I used “karim” which is plural.
         The singular form of cold is kar.

That’s it.

Today we have learned some basic elements: air, earth, fire and water. We also learned some adjectives like:
“good” – tov/tovim (m)          – tova/tovot (f),
“dry” – yavesh/yeveshim (m) – yevesha/yeveshot (f) and
“cold” – kar/karim (m)           – kara/karot (f).

Lehitraot in lesson 29, next Thursday, of course…

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Birthday Celebration

Free Hebrew lessons – June 2010 – Training – Day 27:

Shalom everyone,

Today we’ll talk about my birthday.  Don’t try to take a nap, this will be very interesting for you…! 

In our previous lesson we learned how to say daughter (bat) and son (ben).

But today you have a day off… well, not really… 

Today’s menu: Celebration

Attention: The underlined letters represent the accent.

I love to celebrate, and…since it’s my birthday, let’s learn a few new words and then I will “reward” you.

For “birthday” you would say yom huledet in Hebrew.

For “I celebrate” you would say ani ^ogeg in Hebrew.

Later today, all of my Goood customers will receive an e-mail notifying them of this special Birthday Celebration, but ratsiti (I wanted) to give our hard-working Free-Hebrew.com students, a little extra time to browse my website and new products before everyone else is notified of the sale.

Read about your special pre-sale here.

I hope you take advantage of this special pre-sale, and I hope you all know how much I appreciate your hard work these past six months…congratulations! 

Lehitraot in lesson 28…

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Family II

Free Hebrew lessons – June 2010 – Training – Day 26:

Shalom,

—> Hint:  don’t miss the last part of this lesson…

Some of you have asked me to give shorter lessons… we live in a busy world…  So, from now on our lessons will not be as long, but if any of you want to learn more, please feel free to nag me via our Heblish group on Facebook, and I will help you to learn more Hebrew.

Today we’ll talk about the most important subject in our life – our kids. 

In our previous lesson I simply showed you 4 pictures – a cat (^atul), a bird (tsipor), fly and flies (zvuv/zvuvim) and a beautiful photo of a peacock (tavas).

In lesson 21 I taught you how to say ima (mother / mom), aba (father / daddy), a^ (brother), a^ot (sister), savta (grandmother / grandma) and saba (grandfather / grandpa). But that’s only part of our family…

Today’s menu: Our sweetest treasure

Attention: The underlined letters represent the accent.

Note:  Remember, the “^” has an unusual sound.  Listen to it again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTJoip09FnU&feature=related

Daughter
For daughter you should say “bat” in Hebrew.

Examples:
   – This is my daughter – zot ha’bat sheli.
   – Your daughter (speaking to a man) is beautiful – ha’bat shel^a yafa. (yafa for a beautiful feminine).
   – His daughter is clever – ha’bat shelo nevona. (nevona for a clever feminine).
   – Her daughter bought a dress – ha’bat shela kanta simla. (kanta for she bought)

Son
For son you should say “ben” in Hebrew.

Examples:
   – My son loves basketball – ha’ben sheli ohev kadur-sal (ohev for he loves. Kadur-sal for basketball).
   – Your son (speaking to a woman) is tall – ha’ben shela^  gavoha. (gavoha for a tall masculine).
   – His son is fat – ha’ben shelo shamen (Shamen for a fat masculine).
   – Her son is handsome – ha’ben shela nae (na-e’) (nae for handsome).

That’s all for today.   

And now for your “Hint”…

Sunday is my birthday, therefore in our next meeting I won’t give a lesson. Instead, we will meet here on Monday, June 14^th to celebrate by birthday…and please note… that’s Monday, not Thursday as usual!!!

Don’t miss that meeting…

Lehitraot next Monday…

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