Meeting
Free Heblish Challenge – Training – Day 2
Shalom everybody!
Day 2 of the Heblish Challenge.
How are you and how were your Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations?
Now that the holidays are behind us, and we are happy and focused… we can start the day.
In our previous lesson we talked about “good” and “goodbye,” so you already know that good is tov and goodbye is lehitraot (3 seconds on YouTube).
Attention Students: Upcoming Lessons 4, 5, and 6 are a “must,” foundational information. Please do not try to go on to future lessons without mastering these three important lessons (4, 5, 6).
Today we’ll continue with our first subject, “Meeting,” so let’s see what’s cooking…
Morning
In December we learned what you say at the beginning of your morning, “Boker tov.”
English: Good morning.
Hebrew: Boker tov.
Morning – Boker.
The “e” sounds like the “e” in the word “egg”.
Here are more examples, using the word “Morning”:
– We have had a wonderful morning – Haya lanu boker nifla
– They are drinking juice in the morning – Hem shotim mits ba’boker
– What a beautiful morning – Eize’ boker yafe
– I have a meeting in the morning – Yesh li pgisha ba’boker
You may have already noticed that after we learn a new Heblish word, it is written in “blue.”
This is so you can see what you have learned – the more “blue” words we have, the more Hebrew you already know… 😉
Night
In English you say “goodnight,” a combination of the words “good” and “night”.
In Hebrew we say: Laila tov – two separate words.
Here are more examples, using the word “Night”:
– It was a short night – Ze haya Laila katsar
– It was very cold last night – Haya Meod kar Ba’laila hakodem
– This is a beautiful night – Ze laila yafe
Thank you
The word “thanks” in Hebrew is “toda“.
You say “thanks” or “thank you” and we say “toda“.
Usually we don’t say “you” after “thank,” however, sometimes we need to use it. We will talk about it in another lesson, when we teach you the difference between male and female words in Hebrew…
For now, “thanks” and “thank you” in Hebrew will be only toda, that’s the common usage here in Israel.
Before we go on, let’s make an agreement: every time I write “e” in a Heblish word, the sound will be like the “e” in the word “egg”, “exercise” or “example”.
Alright & OK
“Alright” or “ok” are very useful words and expressions in English and also in Hebrew.
The Hebrew word for “okay” and for “alright” is “beseder” (be-se-der).
– Remember our remark above; the “e” sounds like the “e” in the word “egg”.
Examples:
– It is Ok – ze beseder
– That’s OK – ze beseder
– Everything is alright – hakol beseder
But, if you forget the word “beseder,” in Israel you can also say “OK”; it’s a common word here.
Beseder? 😉
Now you can say laila tov when you are going to sleep and boker tov in the morning.
When someone says “How are you?” you can respond: Toda (thank you), I’m feeling tov (good) and everything is beseder (OK).
Today we have learned some easy and useful Hebrew words. For the next lesson, we will take a BIG step ahead, because we’ll try to build a sentence. It will be easy – just keep going and see how fast you can speak Hebrew.
Lehitraot in lesson 3!
