โThis Hebrew language podcast is hands-down the best of any language podcast and perhaps the most entertaining of all the Podcasts with which I'm familiar. Guy is the consummate teacher and storyteller.โ
โ JS
โThere is really no place to learn the nuances and slang of modern hebrew better than this podcast. Not even your best friend could explain better than streetwise with his amazing cultural references from music and tv. Anyone curious and certainly for all Olim this should be required curriculum.โ
โ Bmiron
โGuy really understands how people actually learn languages. His podcast is always a highlight of my week. It really makes me feel like I'm part of a community of people all over the world learning this beautiful, intriguing, difficult language.โ
โ AL
Recent Episodes
High Heels and Social Media Followers
How many followers (ืขืืงืืื) do you have on Facebook? What about Instoosh? Twitter? And what do high heels (ืขืงืืื) have to do with social networks? Well, not much except that they share a common Hebrew root. Follow closely as Guy talks about followers, following, follow up, and so much more.
Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
We're getting ever closer to elections day in Israel. Over the past few weeks, every time we turned on the news we heard politicians calling one another a liar. How do we say โliarโ in Hebrew? How do we say โwhite lies?โ Guy tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the root โshekerโ (ืฉ.ืง.ืจ).
About the Host
Guy Sharett
Guy teaches Hebrew in the streets of Tel Aviv. He is a former journalist with Yedioth Ahronot and Channel 10, and has a B.A. in Hebrew Language and an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies. Guy speaks seven languages, including Arabic, Thai, and Indonesian. Guy is the founder of โStreetWise Hebrew,โ where he teaches Hebrew and Israeli culture through graffiti, street signs, tombstone reading, and sewer covers.
Setting a Good Example
In Hebrew dugma (ืืืืื) is โan example,โ and ledugma (ืืืืืื) means โfor example.โ This root, d-g-m, is quite handy and from it we derive words and phrases like fashion model, sample, and the perfect husband.