streetwise hebrew

Food for Thought

How do you say Thai food in Hebrew? How about “I don’t eat coriander?” This episode is a feast of tasty eating-related words and phrases.

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A Matter of Taste

The Hebrew word טעים means tasty, and its root, טעמ, makes up a whole family of culinary terms that are important to know

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Giving Two Hundred Percent

To mark episode 200, learn to say matayim, two hundred in Hebrew, and to talk about this special suffix for pairs, ‘ayim’.

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Dream a Little Dream of Me

Halom is a dream in Hebrew, plural, Halomot. There are lots of songs about halomot, which is great. But how is it related to Guy’s grandpa?

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Pick Up After Your Dog With “Tarimu”

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

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Straighten Those Split Ends

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.

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Got Chutzpah

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

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So, Then…

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

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Ummm . . . Uhhh . . . Errr . . .

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.

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