Streetwise Hebrew

Learning Hebrew Doesn’t Have to Be a Bummer

Sometimes we’re just “in basa” – in a state of annoyance, not really angry, but just bummed. Find out how to talk about it in Hebrew.

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Half a Million Downloads? Not Half Bad

This week we’re celebrating half a million downloads of our podcast! So we decided to dedicate this episode to “hatsi/hetsi” – “half” in Hebrew.

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Learning Hebrew? Kol Ha-Kavod!

Learn all the uses of the Hebrew word “kavod” – “honor” – right from the Prime Minister’s official title to what you jot on the front of an envelope.

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Pagash-Nifgash: Close Encounters of the Hebrew Kind

Even advanced learners have difficulties with the פגש-נפגש verb forms, both meaning ‘he met.’ Guy explains the differences between the two, so you know how to meet up with your best friends as well as how to bump into them

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Streetwise Support: Ease the Heavy Burden of Learning Hebrew

The word for “support” – “tmicha” – is vastly used in Hebrew, mainly in the context of tech support. The verb is “litmoch.”

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Knives Out: Streetwise Hebrew on the Language of Stabbing

The word “dkira” – “stabbing” – is unfortunately becoming the soundtrack to our lives here in Israel at the moment.

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Crazy Hebrew for Crazy Days

We are going through some “yamim meshugaim” – “crazy days” – in Israel at the moment, so let’s talk about how we drive someone crazy in Hebrew.

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Celebrating 100 Episodes by Saying Toda

This is our 100th podcast episode – time to say, “toda raba.” So on this special occasion, we’ll learn how to thank someone both profusely and cynically in Hebrew.

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Shoulda Coulda Woulda

Hebrew has this interesting structure: Verb “haya” (past tense of “to be”) plus a conjugated verb in the present, like “hayiti holech.”

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