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Intro |
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| Shira: Hello and welcome to HebrewPod101.com’s Absolute Beginner Season 1, Lesson 6 - Catching up With an Old Friend in Israel. I’m your host, Shira. |
| Amir: Shalom, I’m Amir. |
| Shira: In this lesson, you will learn how to catch up with someone in Hebrew. |
| Amir: The conversation takes place at the airport. |
| Shira: It’s between David and Peter, two old friends and work colleagues. |
| Amir: The dialogue is informal. |
| Shira: Let’s listen to the conversation |
Lesson conversation |
| David: הי, פטר? |
| (Hey, Peter?) |
| Peter: דוויד, כבר עבר הרבה זמן! |
| (David, k’var avar harbeh z’man!) |
| David: נכון, הרבה זמן לא התראינו! |
| (Nakhon, harbeh z’man lo hit’ra’enu.) |
| Shira: Let’s listen to the conversation one more time slowly. |
| David: הי, פטר? |
| (Hey, Peter?) |
| Peter: דוויד, כבר עבר הרבה זמן! |
| (David, k’var avar harbeh z’man!) |
| David: נכון, הרבה זמן לא התראינו! |
| (Nakhon, harbeh z’man lo hit’ra’enu.) |
| Shira: Let’s listen to the conversation with the English translation. |
| David: הי, פטר? |
| (Hey, Peter?) |
| Shira: Hey, Peter? |
| Peter: דוויד, כבר עבר הרבה זמן! |
| (David, k’var avar harbeh z’man!) |
| Shira: David, it’s been a while! |
| David: נכון, הרבה זמן לא התראינו! |
| (Nakhon, harbeh z’man lo hit’ra’enu.) |
| Shira: True, long time no see! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Amir: So, what cultural insight are we sharing with our listeners in this lesson? |
| Shira: Let’s talk about Ben Gurion. |
| Amir: I’m guess that you’re talking about the airport since David and Peter met up at the airport. |
| Shira: Yeah, I meant the airport, not the man. Although, it would be a good idea to talk about him in one of these lessons as well. |
| Amir: Okay. Ben Gurion airport is considered to be one of the most secure airports in the world. |
| Shira: The reason for this is the many levels of security that are in place there. |
| Amir: You may only be aware of a few of these security measures because only some of them are visible to most people. |
| Shira: Right. It can be a little frustrating to go through all the different levels especially as a tourist. |
| Amir: The first thing that you’ll see is the security gate at the entrance to the airport – this is the first line of defense. |
| Shira: Unfortunately, in Israel, it has to be seen that way. At the car gate, security will ask you a few questions and look into your car to see if there’s anything suspicious. |
| Amir: Once you park and you’re on your way into the airport you’ll pass another security guard. If he feels you may be a threat, he will ask you for identification and possibly send you through the metal detector. |
| Shira: Once you’re inside, you will need to find the right line for further security checks, but before you get there, there are a few security measures in place. |
| Amir: Yes, there are security officers in uniform, as well as undercover agents and they may strike up a conversation with you just to check you out. |
| Shira: There are also cameras everywhere, keeping an eye on everything going on. |
| Amir: When you’re in line for the security check, you will be questioned about your trip and you’ll need to show your identification. |
| Shira: In the rare event that you’re considered a very low security threat, you will be able to go straight to the check-in line. If not, your bags will be scanned and possibly opened to look at the contents. |
| Amir: Or even worse, you might have to be taken aside to have your body checked by a security officer. That is rare though. |
| Shira: Yeah, but in all my years of living in Israel, I personally have gone through all of those checks. Although it may be frustrating at times, it’s worth it to feel secure. |
| Amir: The last check is passport control where you may be asked again what you’re doing in Israel. |
| Shira: If you’re coming from another airport to Ben Gurion, there are usually extra checks for you to get onto your plane before you come to Israel. |
| Amir: So, now you should understand better about why Ben Gurion is considered to be one of the most secure airports in the world. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Shira: Okay. Now let’s go to the vocabulary for this lesson. First, we have: |
| Amir: כבר (K'var) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: Already. |
| Amir: כבר (K'var) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. כבר (K'var) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: Next: |
| Amir: לעבור/עבר (La-avor/avar) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: To pass or move. |
| Amir: לעבור/עבר (La-avor/avar) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. לעבור/עבר (La-avor/avar) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: Next: |
| Amir: הרבה (Har'beh) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: Many or much. |
| Amir: הרבה (Har'beh) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. הרבה (Har'beh) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: Next: |
| Amir: זמן (zman) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: Time |
| Amir: זמן (zman) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. זמן (zman) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: Next: |
| Amir: נכון (nakhon) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: Correct or true. |
| Amir: נכון (nakhon) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. נכון (nakhon) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: Next: |
| Amir: לא (lo) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: No. |
| Amir: לא (lo)[slowly - broken down by syllable]. לא (lo)[natural native speed] |
| Shira: And last: |
| Amir: להתראות/התראה (Le-hitra'ot/hit'ra'ah) [natural native speed] |
| Shira: To see one another. |
| Amir: להתראות/התראה (Le-hitra'ot/hit'ra'ah) [slowly - broken down by syllable]. להתראות/התראה (Le-hitra'ot/hit'ra'ah) [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Shira: Let’s take a closer look at some of the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is לעבור (La-avor). |
| Amir: לעבור (La-avor) means “to pass” or “to move.” |
| Shira: It can mean to “pass” a test or to “go past something”. It can also mean to “move” as in moving house. |
| Amir: Our next word is הרבה (Har'beh) and it means “many” or “much”. |
| Shira: It’s related to the word רב (rav) that we learned in an earlier lesson, but it comes before the noun, like הרבה מתנות (Har'beh matanot). |
| Amir: It also doesn’t change form, like רב (rav). |
| Shira: Next we move on to זמן (zman). |
| Amir: Z’man is “time” but not in the sense of “what’s the time”. It means time in the context of hours, days, months and years. |
| Shira: Yes, it’s more a description of a chunk of time and not a specific “time” of day. |
| Amir: So, the next word is נכון which means “right” or “correct”. |
| Shira: We use this when we want to say if something is “true” נכון (nakhon) or “false” לא נכון (lo nakhon). |
| Amir: Our last word is לא (lo) or “no” |
| Shira: Okay, let’s move on to the Grammar section. |
Lesson focus |
| Shira: In this lesson, you will learn how to catch up with an old friend in Hebrew. |
| Amir: You’ll also learn why we say כבר עבר הרבה זמן (K'var avar harbeh z'man). |
| Shira: Or why we say הרבה זמן לא התראנו (Harbeh z'man lo hit'ra'enu). |
| Amir: Let’s start with the first phrase, כבר עבר הרבה זמן (K'var avar harbeh z'man). |
| Shira: In the dialogue, we translated this as “It’s been awhile”, but that is really the figurative translation. |
| Amir: When we break it down, we begin with the first word כבר (K'var) which means “already”. |
| Shira: The second word is עבר (avar) or “passed”. The last two words are הרבה זמן (harbeh z'man) or “much time”. |
| Amir: When we put these all together we are saying “already passed much time”. |
| Shira: Or in a more logical order, “much time has passed already”. |
| Amir: The word order in Hebrew depends more on the emphasis in the sentence than on grammar rules. |
| Shira: The speaker wanted to emphasize that “already” a lot of time has passed since they last saw each other and that’s why he used that word order. Let’s move on to our second phrase! |
| Amir: It is הרבה זמן לא התראנו (Harbeh z'man lo hit'ra'enu). |
| Shira: In Hebrew, there isn’t a popular saying like “long time, no see”, but this phrase means basically the same thing. |
| Amir: The first two words, הרבה זמן (harbeh z'man), we saw in the last phrase they mean “much time”. |
| Shira: The next word לא (lo) means “no”. |
| Amir: The last word is התראנו (hitra'enu) and it means “we saw each other”. |
| Shira: There are seven different types of verbs in Hebrew, we call them בניינים . This verb is part of the reflexive group of verbs. |
| Amir: These verbs can be like reflexive verbs in English, but they can also be something that two people are involved in, like kissing or marrying each other. |
| Shira: Our verb, התראנו (hitra'enu) is part of this latter group. להתראות means “to see each other.” |
| Amir: It’s in the past tense, which means that the subject is a part of the verb in many cases. The end of התראנו (hit'ra'enu), the –נו part tells us that the subject is “we”. |
| Shira: So if we put all these words together, we are saying “much time we didn’t see each other.” |
| Amir: As it was with the last phrase, the word order of this sentence is not what you typically have in an English sentence. |
| Shira: Yes, what you want to emphasize is at the beginning. The speaker wanted to emphasize the fact that a lot of time had passed. |
| Amir: The last thing that you can see from the sentence is the use of לא (lo). |
| Shira: Not only does לא (lo) mean “no” but it’s also used like “not” in English. Can you give us an example, Amir? |
| Amir: אני לא רץ בבוקר. (Ani lo ratz ba-boker.) |
| Shira: "I do not run in the morning." Okay. Well, that’s it for this lesson. |
| Amir: Now that you’ve listened to this lesson, please visit HebrewPod101.com and leave us a comment! |
Outro |
| Shira: See you next time! |
| Amir: Le-hit’ra’ot! |
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