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| INTRODUCTION |
| Sherah: Hi everyone, and welcome back to HebrewPod101.com. This is Beginner Season 1 Lesson 3 - Sending a Package Home from Israel. Sherah here. |
| Amir: And I'm Amir, שלום |
| Sherah: In this lesson, you’ll learn about conjugating the verb לשקול and have a review of regular pa'al and pi'el verb conjugations. The conversation takes place at the post office. |
| Amir: It's between Doron and a post office clerk. |
| Sherah: The speakers are in a casual setting, so they will be using informal Hebrew. Okay, let's listen to the conversation. |
Lesson conversation |
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| דורון: שלום, אני רוצה לשלוח חבילה. |
| פקידה: לאן? |
| דורון: לארצות הברית. |
| פקידה: בסדר. דואר מהיר או דואר אוויר? |
| דורון: דואר אוויר. |
| פקידה: החבילה שוקלת 600 גרם ולכן עולה 86 שקלים ו60 אגורות לשלוח אותה. |
| דורון: אני משלם עם כרטיס אשראי. |
| פקידה: תודה רבה ויום טוב. |
| Sherah: Listen to the conversation one time slowly. |
| דורון: שלום, אני רוצה לשלוח חבילה. |
| פקידה: לאן? |
| דורון: לארצות הברית. |
| פקידה: בסדר. דואר מהיר או דואר אוויר? |
| דורון: דואר אוויר. |
| פקידה: החבילה שוקלת 600 גרם ולכן עולה 86 שקלים ו60 אגורות לשלוח אותה. |
| דורון: אני משלם עם כרטיס אשראי. |
| פקידה: תודה רבה ויום טוב. |
| Sherah: Listen to the conversation with the English translation. |
| Doron: Hello, I want to send a package. |
| Clerk: Where? |
| Doron: To the United States. |
| Clerk: Okay. EMS or Air Mail? |
| Doron: Air Mail. |
| Clerk: The package weighs 600 grams and therefore costs 86 shekels and 60 cents to send it. |
| Doron: I will pay with a credit card. |
| Clerk: Thank you and have a good day. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Sherah: When you’re walking around in Israel and you come across a red sign with a deer jumping on it, you've found a post office. |
| Amir: They’re hard to miss. There are over 700 locations all over the country. |
| Sherah: And it’s not just a place where you can send things. |
| Amir: Right, the Israeli post office is good for a lot of things. Another useful thing you can do there is pay bills. |
| Sherah: Right, you can pay your water bill, your electricity bill, or even your property taxes. |
| Amir: All you have to do is take your bill in and pay it on the spot. The post office processes everything for you. |
| Sherah: You can also sign up for one of the country’s health funds. |
| Amir: Some branches are actually a post office bank, where you can do even more things, like transfer your car title to another owner. |
| Sherah: It’s also a good place to change money from other currencies. |
| Amir: The only negative aspect of all these possibilities is you may have to wait in a long line. |
| Sherah: That makes sense. Okay, now onto the vocab. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Sherah: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Amir: לשלוח [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: to send |
| Amir: לשלוח[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Amir: לשלוח [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: Next we have.. |
| Amir: חבילה [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: package |
| Amir: חבילה[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Amir: חבילה [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: Next we have.. |
| Amir: לאן [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: where, to where |
| Amir: לאן[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Amir: לאן [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: Next we have.. |
| Amir: דואר מהיר [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: EMS |
| Amir: דואר מהיר[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Amir: דואר מהיר [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: Next we have.. |
| Amir: דואר אוויר [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: airmail |
| Amir: דואר אוויר[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Amir: דואר אוויר [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: Next we have.. |
| Amir: לשקול [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: to weigh |
| Amir: לשקול[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Amir: לשקול [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: Next we have.. |
| Amir: גרם [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: gram |
| Amir: גרם[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Amir: גרם [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: Next we have.. |
| Amir: כרטיס אשראי [natural native speed] |
| Sherah: credit card |
| Amir: כרטיס אשראי[slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Amir: כרטיס אשראי [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Sherah: Let's have a closer look at the usage of some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first word is.. |
| Amir: לשלוח חבילה |
| Sherah: meaning "to send a package" |
| Sherah: When you’re going to send something at the post office, the main verb you’ll use is לשלוח. |
| Amir: This verb means “to send”. |
| Sherah: Let’s give some examples of things you can send other than a חבילה which means “package.” |
| Amir: How about לשלוח מכתב “to send a letter”. |
| Sherah: or לשלוח ברכה “to send a greeting card”. |
| Amir: One quite grim expression that uses the verb לשלוח is לשלוח יד בנפש and this means “to commit suicide”. |
| Sherah: That is grim. Can you give us an example using the word לשלוח? |
| Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. יונית שולחת חבילה לדודה שרה. |
| Sherah: ...which means "Yonit is sending a package to Aunt Sara". |
| Amir: The second phrase is כרטיס אשראי |
| Sherah: meaning "credit card". |
| Sherah: Just like in English, this phrase is made up of two words in Hebrew, just in the reverse order of the English. |
| Amir: In the Hebrew phrase, the first word is כרטיס or “card” |
| Sherah: and the second word is אשראי or “credit” |
| Amir: This is “credit” in only the financial sense and cannot be used like “credit” is used in English. |
| Sherah: Right, you can’t use it in phrases like “extra credit”. |
| Amir: Or “give her credit”. |
| Sherah: Can you give us an example using this word? |
| Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. יש לו כרטיס אשראי של ויזה |
| Sherah: ...which means "He has a Visa credit card” Okay, now onto the grammar. |
Lesson focus |
| Sherah: In this lesson you will learn conjugating the verbs לשקול and לשלם and also we`ll review the regular pa'al verb and pi’el verb conjugations. As we've talked about in previous lessons in Hebrew, there are seven different verb groups. |
| Amir: The most commonly used verb group and the simplest of all of them is the pa’al verb group. |
| Sherah: And the second most commonly used verb group is the pi’el verb group. |
| Amir: These verbs usually expression normal, day to day actions that everyone does. |
| Sherah: The conversation in this lesson uses verbs from both verb groups. |
| Amir: In Hebrew, verb groups are called בניינים. |
| Sherah: The first verb we want to talk about from the conversation is לשקול or “to weigh”. |
| Amir: This is a pa’al verb and it’s conjugated regularly. |
| Sherah: The root of this verb is ש ק ל. |
| Amir: Knowing the root is important to knowing how to conjugate the verb. |
| Sherah: The patterns of the conjugations depend on the root of the verb. Let’s go through the four present tense conjugations of the verb לשקול. |
| Amir: Alright, the masculine singular is שוקל |
| Sherah: And the feminine singular... |
| Amir: ...is שוקלת |
| Sherah: The masculine plural |
| Amir: שוקלים |
| Sherah: And the feminine plural |
| Amir: שוקלות |
| Sherah: In the dialogue, the clerk says החבילה שוקלת 600 גרם |
| Amir: The subject of the sentence is החבילה, which is a feminine noun. |
| Sherah: This is why the feminine singular conjugation of the verb is used: החבילה שוקלת |
| Amir: Later in the dialogue, Doron says אני משלם עם כרטיס אשראי |
| Sherah: Here he uses the pi’el verb לשלם or “to pay”. |
| Amir: From the infinitive, we can already see there is a difference in the basic pattern of the two verbs. |
| Sherah: Right, לשקול has a “ee-oh’ vowel pattern and לשלם has a “ah-eh” vowel pattern. |
| Amir: This will give you the first clue about which verb goes is in which verb group. |
| Sherah: So, let’s go through the four present tense conjugations for לשלם meaning “to pay”. Let’s start with the masculine singular. |
| Amir: that’s משלם |
| Sherah: the feminine singular |
| Amir: משלמת |
| Sherah: The masculine plural |
| Amir: משלמים |
| Sherah: And the feminine plural |
| Amir: משלמות |
| Sherah: As you can see here, the “ah-eh” vowel pattern continues throughout the conjugations in the present tense. |
| Amir: Both verb groups have the same verb endings, so that makes it easy to conjugate them. |
| Sherah: Pi’el verbs also have a Mem at the beginning of the conjugations. |
| Amir: And Pa’al verbs retain their “oh” vowel but it moves to the front of the word, in between the first and second root letters. |
| Sherah: So let’s hear some example sentences with verbs from both verb groups. |
| Amir: We’ll start with a pa’al verb: הוא כותב ספר |
| Sherah: Which means “He’s writing a book” |
| Amir: Next is a pi’el verb: הוא מדבר עם דנה |
| Sherah: "He is talking with Dana" |
| Amir: Next is a sentence with both a pa’al verb and a pi’el verb: אני מבשלת מרק ואוכלת עוגיות |
| Sherah: This would be for a female speaker and it means “I am cooking soup and eating cookies” |
Outro |
| Sherah: Okay, that’s all for this lesson. Thank you for listening, everyone, and we’ll see you next time! Bye! |
| Amir: תודה |
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