Latkes for Hanukkah

 

חנוכה

 

 

Latkes for Hanukkah

6    medium potatos
1    onion
2    eggs
pinch of salt
cooking oil  (I personally like desodorised coconut oil best it doesn't burn so quickly)

finely shred the potatos and immediately cover them with water so that they won't oxidise
finely shred the onion
beat the eggs
drain the water from the potatos
wring the potatos and onion in a kitchen towel to get as much of the liquid out as possible

mix potatos, eggs and onion and add a little salt

preheat the oil  
fry the latkes: one tabelspoon = one latke 
don't try to fry too many at one time
and make sure the dough is spread out evenly to make them really crispy

eat as soon as possible while they are still very hot

enjoy with apple sauce and/or sour cream and/or pumpkin preserve

or whatever makes you happy

בתאבון

 

bete'avon

 

bon appetit

RIP - Arik Einstein - Children of Life

אריק איינשטיין-ילדים של החיים

 yeladim shel hachai'im

 

Arik Einstein - Children of Life

 

no time for a real blog unfortunately but I really wanted to say how sad I am - he died far too soon

George Bernhard Shaw in Hebrew

 

 האנשים שאומרים שאין אפשר לעשות משהו צריכים לא להפריע
 לאלו שעושים אותו

 

 ג'ורג' ברנרד שו

ha anashim she 'omrim she 'ain efshar la'asot mashehou tzrichim lo lehafri'a

le'alou she 'osim oto

(the 'e' in 'she' is pronounced as the 'e' in 'end' )

word by word translation:

the people who say that it is not (there is not) possible to do something should not interfere

with those who are doing it

proper English:

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it

  

George Bernard Shaw

lesson 92 - future tense first person plural

lesson 92

future tense : first person plural

                                          mah nishma'?

                                           lo ra' todah! ve at?

                                           kol beseder todah!



we already learned one future tense expression a long time ago:
mah nischma' literally means what will we hear
and it's the perfect example for the 1st person plural future tense.


we also came across boi' nikneh rak tutim in the ethnix song 'TUTIM' a few posts ago
literally come we will only buy strawberries or
come lets only buy strawberries which is a better translation because Hebrew mostly uses the future tense to express the imperative and we'll talk about this very soon.



many verbs build their 1st person plural future tense in this way:

ni + root consonats

(but of course there are other types as well which will be discussed soon. but first the easy ones)


nishma'        we will hear               ש  מ  ע               ni + SH  M   ע
 
nikneh          we will buy              ק  נ  ה                 ni +  K  N  H

nir'ah           we will see               ר  א  ה                ni + R  א   H     

nirtzeh         we will want             ר  צ  ה                ni+  R  צ  H

niktov          we will write             כ  ת  ב                 ni+  K  T  V

nilmad         we will learn              ל  מ  ד                 ni+  L  M  D

lesson 91 - listening exercise - srugim

The last few month have been quite busy, moving house and getting started with my MA Applied Linguistics are only two of the many things I had to get sorted. Even now, I am not really settled yet and I don't know how often I'll be able to blog over the next few weeks. But I'll try. And for today, just a small listenig exercise:

lesson 91

listening exercise
   

listen to the first 35 seconds of this clip several times and try to hear the words and phrases listed below. I haven't covered everything, just the simpler things that are easier to understand. The secret lies in the repetition. To train an ear to make sense of a foreign language it's important to expose it to this language over and over and over again. Children have thousands of hours of audio input before they start speaking their first words. And I belive that in modern language teaching the importance of input is hugely underestimated. So please play along and listen to those 35 seconds as often as you can possibly bear it without starting to hate it ;-)



 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7auIjNZGBs

00: 01    (atah) lo shomer shabbat?                   you don't observe shabbat?         

00:06    az atah chiloni ligamri?                       so you are non-religious completely?

00:09    smolani?                                               left winger

00:12    yemani?                                                right winger

00:13    betach                                                   sure, certainly

00:14    lama betach?                                        why certainly?

00:17    mitzta'er                                                I am sorry (masc.)                          

00:19    chilonim                                               non religious people (plural)

00:21    beseder                                                  OK

00:25    kol ha erev                                            whole the evening  =  the whole evening

00:26   mah?                                                      what?

00:29   lo seh...                                                  no it's

00:31   seh lo...                                                  it's not...

00:34    chalon                                                   dream

lesson 90: yiheyeh beseder

lesson 90

yiheyeh beseder 



 

 

hou shavar et ha regel shelo

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                                    Shalom Lior. Mah nishma?
                                    Shalom Dani. Shamata she Roni be bait cholim?
                                    Lo, lo shamati. Mah karah? Hou choleh?
                                    Lo, hou lo chole. Hou shavar et ha regel shelo.
                                    Mah omer ha rofeh?
                                    Amar she yihyeh beseder be'od shalosh shavu'ot.

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quite a few new words today:


bait cholim                hospital
choleh                        ill /sick (masc.)  
cholah                        ill/sick (fem.)
hou shavar                 he broke
et                                direct object marker
regel                           leg
rofeh                          doctor (masc.)    
rofah                          doctor (fem.)
yiheyeh                      he will be / it will be
yiheyeh beseder         he will be OK / it will be OK
be'od                          in
shavu'ah                     week
shavou'ot                   weeks

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she = that

The 'e' is pronounced as in leg.

 

the future of  'to be'

she will be / it will be   =  tiheyeh

he will be / it will be     = yiheyeh

et  =  direct object marker
the 'et' needs some time to get used to and we'll talk more about it soon
it is used to introduce a direct object
(in German you'd have a direct object ending to the noun and in Hebrew
it appears as a particle in front of the noun which it marks as a direct object)
 

lesson 89 future (1.3.)

lesson 89 future (1.3.)

Jerusalem

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                                     Lior:       Mah atah ta'aseh machar?
                                     Daniel:   Anee lo yode'a. Ulay 'atayel ba 'ir.
                                     Lior:       Ve Michal mah ta'aseh machar?
                                     Daniel:    Hee tikneh mechonit chadashah.

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new words:
ulay         maybe
atayel      I will go for a walk
(tiyel:  he went for a walk. A verb we'll do in a few lessons time)

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3rd person singular future tense

 

r tz h   -   ratzah    -   rotzeh    - yirtzeh    -  he will want
                                                                                tirtzeh     - she will want

sh t h  -   shatah    -   shoteh    -  yishteh     -  he will drink
                                                                                 tishteh    - she will drink

k n h   -   kanah     -   koneh    -  yikneh      -   he will buy
                                                                                tikneh    -   she will buy

r א h   -   raאah      -   roאeh    -   yirאeh     -   he will see
                         (ra'ah)                    (ro'eh)                (yir'eh)
                                                                                 tirאeh     -   she will see (fem)
                                                                                   (tir'eh)

s ch h  -  sachah     -  socheh   -   yischeh   - he will swim (masc)
                                                                                   (yis-cheh)
                                                                                 tischeh   - she will swim (fem)
                                                                                   (tis-cheh)

and to do is not as regular as the other ones:
ע s h    -   עasah     -    עoseh    -  yaעaseh  -  he will do (msasc.) 
                         'asah                      'oseh                   (ya'aseh)
                                                                                 taעaseh  - she you will do (fem.)
                                                                                     (ta'aseh)