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TalkingAboutNationalitiesin

Hebrew

CONTENTS

2 INTRODUCTION

2 POST CONVERSATION BANTER

2 KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES

3 LESSON FOCUS

4 OUTRO

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INTRODUCTION

Sherah: Hello and welcome to HebrewPod101.com. This is Lower Beginner Series

Season 1, Lesson 4 Talking About Nationalities in Hebrew

Amir: Hello, Im Amir.

Sherah: And Im Sherah. In this lesson, youll learn how to talk about nationalities and

countries.Amir: The conversation takes place in Annas dorm room in the kibbutz.

Sherah: Its between Anna and her new roommates.

Amir: The speakers are strangers, and theyll be using informal Hebrew.

Sherah: Lets listen to the conversation.

POST CONVERSATION BANTER

Sherah: So, when you go to Ulpan, there are usually people from all over the world in

the class, many of them new immigrants. Lets look at the different outside influences

on Israeli culture.

Amir: Israel is very culturally diverse. The first Jewish people to come to the area

were Russians, and this was during the Ottoman empire.

Sherah: The surrounding Arab cultures influenced their music, food, and even their

language.

Amir: Later, the British left their influence during the British Mandate. Because of the

British, English is a semi-official language of Israel.

Sherah: After the formation of the State of Israel, many people arrived from Europe.

Their cultural influence is seen in Israel, but not as strongly other cultures, because

they were trying to leave behind their past and begin a new Israeli culture.

Amir: The next big influence was the arrival of Jewish people from Arab countries.

Sherah: There are many things that we adopted from these new immigrants in the

1950s, like food, music and even the hamsa, a palm-shaped amulet.

Amir: They had a big influence on the film industry also, and thats when we saw the

emergence of the bourekas films, which played off of the differences betweenashkenazi and mizrahi Jews in a comedic way.

Sherah: And in recent years, we have seen many immigrants from Russia and

Ethiopia. The Russian culture emphasizes the importance of education and that has

transferred to the rest of Israel.

Amir: Ethiopians brought music, and this was seen in the Idan Raichel project, which

features Ethiopian singers and instruments.

Sherah: I remember when that came out, it was a big deal. Okay, now its time to

move on to the vocabulary.

KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES

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Sherah: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from

this lesson. The first word is

Amir:

is the Hebrew word for partner.

Sherah: Right, this could be a partner in business, in life or in a situation.

Amir: Yes. For instance, if you are a lawyer and you become a partner, you would be

called a

in Hebrew.

Sherah: A partner in business would be .Amir: When you want to talk about your roommate, you would say

just like

Cornelia did in this phrase when she told Anna that they were going to be roommates.

Sherah: Flatmates are called .

Amir: Now, le ts say that you are an accomplice to some crime...

Sherah: Wait a minute! I hope our listeners are not committing any crimes.

Amir: (laughs) Me too, but lets just pretend... if you are an accomplice, you are called

a

- a partner in crime.

Sherah: In English, a partner in crime is someone who does the crime with you, but inHebrew you are called that even if you are just an accomplice.

Amir: Our next vocabulary word is .. Heder is the word for room

Sherah: This is referring to a specific room in a building, and not a general idea like

space.

Amir: In the diaspora, a heder was the term for the relig ious school.

Sherah: Now they use the term yeshiva for that. Other types of rooms are

which means cafe or dining hall.

Amir: Or which is a guest room. Another room is the theemergency room.

Sherah: And then there is the

or the study. Okay, now lets move on to the

Grammar.

LESSON FOCUS

Sherah: In this lesson, youll learn the different words for countries and nationalities.

Amir: In Hebrew, someones nationality is usually similar to their countrys name or the

adjective used to describe something from that country.

Sherah: As with other things in Hebrew, there are four different versions of nationalities

used to describe people - masculine, feminine and the plural forms.

Amir: When it comes to the feminine endings there are two variations, those that end

in -

and those that end in -

.

Sherah: Sometimes a countrys name and the feminine form of the nationality are

spelled the same but they are pronounced a little differently.

Amir: We saw this in the dialogue with the country of Germany

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and the feminine nationality.

Sherah: The difference is where the stress is placed in the word. Its the same with

Russia

and the female form of Russian

.

Amir: We also had the United States

and American

in the

dialogue, but those are not close.

Sherah: No theyre not. We want to give you some other examples of country and

nationality. Well give you both the masculine and the feminine forms of the nationality.For instance, China is and a Chinese person is or .

Amir: England is and an english person is or .

Sherah: Braz il is and a Brazilian is or .

Amir: Finland is and a Finn is or .

Sherah: Lets give a couple examples of both the country and the nationality in a

sentence. You start, Ill translate.

Amir: Okay... .

Sherah: Hes FinnishAmir: How about -

.

Sherah: Shes Chinese. .

Amir: I think the important things to remember is that many of the words surrounding

the country and the nationality are similar.

Sherah: The pronunciation and the endings are what will determine if its the country

or the nationality a lot of the time.

Amir: Thats right.

Sherah: Now lets look at the sample sentences from the dialogue as well. In thebeginning, Anna says

,

. Im Anna. Im American.

Amir: This is correct form in Hebrew. Israelis wouldnt use amerikanit as often as they

would use ., which is technically not correct in Hebrew

Sherah: Right. So after this, Cornelia says .Im German

Amir: And then she talks about Yulia, saying .. Shes from Russia

Sherah: Right!

OUTRO

Sherah: So, thats all for this lesson.

Amir: Now that youve listened to this lesson, please visit HebrewPod101.com and tell

us your nationality.

Sherah: And well see you next time. Bye everyone!

Amir:

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