‘Tarimu’ means ‘pick up,’ as in, pick up after your dog. It has other meanings as well, especially within Tel Avivi gay lingo.

The root חל”ק has many meanings involving separation, borders and partitions — but can also come up at the hair stylist, in a stadium or even on a banana peel.

Chutzpah — when is it positive and when is it negative? And what’s “hutzpah israelit”?

English has ‘like’ and ‘kinda’. What do Hebrew speakers use as fillers? And what did we borrow from Arabic?

Guy talks about fillers like ‘Eh’ in Hebrew and about other things we say when we try to think and talk at the same time.

Bored? Join us to talk for a sec about boredom-bored-boring in Hebrew.

How do you say “about 30 people” in Hebrew? How about “around the 7th or the 8th” of the month? Or perhaps “he’s about 50-60 year old?” Guy discusses the Hebrew words for around, about, and those other tentative things.

Gay marriage is new to the world, and Hebrew, a gender-based language, has to face the music and find new ways to talk about it

Guy’s recent Skype chat with Patrons covered, among other things, California’s wildfires and Hebrew podcasts produced by the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.

The word ‘shavé’ means ‘equal,’ but in slang it also means ‘worth it’, and sometimes ‘cool,’ ‘amazing,’ or ‘good looking.’