#196 Got Chutzpah
Streetwise Hebrew
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๐๏ธ 2 January 2018
โฑ๏ธ 11 minutes
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Summary
Almost everybody knows the word chutzpah, audacity, brash behaviour. When is it positive and when is it negative? And what's hutzpah israelit?
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New words and expressions:
Hatichat hatsuf - You cheeky bastard - ืืชืืืช ืืฆืืฃ
Limhok - to erase - ืืืืืง
Titbayesh lecha - Shame on you - ืชืชืืืืฉ ืื
Ata pashut hatsuf - You're just cheeky - ืืชื ืคืฉืื ืืฆืืฃ
Na'ara yechola lihyot hatzufa - A girl can be audacious, brash - ื ืขืจื ืืืืื ืืืืืช ืืฆืืคื
Hutspan - A rude person - ืืืฆืคื
Hu ma-ze hutspan, hi ma-ze hutspanit - he's so brash, she's so brash - ืืื ืื-ืื ืืืฆืคื, ืืื ืื-ืื ืืืฆืคื ืืช
Ha-yeladim mithatsfim elay - The kids "talk back" to me - ืืืืืื ืืชืืฆืคืื ืืืื
Lehithatsef le-mishehu - To be cheeky toward someone - ืืืชืืฆืฃ ืืืืฉืื
Hayeled hithatsef la-mora - The kid was impolite, cheeky, toward the teacher - ืืืื ืืชืืฆืฃ ืืืืจื
Ha-yeled diber eleha be-hutzpah - The kid talked to her with hutzpah - ืืืื ืืืืจ ืืืื ืืืืฆืคื
Messer kaful - Double message - ืืกืจ ืืคืื
Hutzpah israelit - Isreali Hutzpah - ืืืฆืคื ืืฉืจืืืืช
Ratsiti lehachnis et ha-hutzpah ha-israelit - I wanted to introduce the israeli hutzpah - ืจืฆืืชื ืืืื ืืก ืืช ืืืืฆืคื ืืืฉืจืืืืช
Le'ha-ez - To dare - ืืืขื
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Playlist and clips:
Irit Linur - Galey Tsahal Radio
Rami Kleinstein - "Hanichi Li" (lyrics)
Balagan - "Huts La'aretz" (lyrics)
Ma osim kshe-ha-yeled mithatsef - Reshet Alef Radio
Michal Hil - Israeli Hutzpah Exhibition (Ha-televizia Ha-hinuhit)
Hutzpah Israelit Exhibition (HIT)
Limor Ben Yosef, Israeli designer in NY - Walla
Shlishiyat Gesher Ha-yarkon - "Siman She-ata Tsa'ir" (lyrics)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is T.L. V. 1. |
| 0:07.0 | Street-wise. |
| 0:11.0 | Chatham. |
| 0:12.0 | Shalom. It's me Guy with Street-wise Hebrew. |
| 0:15.0 | Today we're talking about chutzpah or chutzpah in English. |
| 0:20.0 | It's a Hebrew word that actually made it to the Oxford Dictionary. |
| 0:24.0 | The definition reads extreme self-confidence or audacity, |
| 0:28.0 | usually used approvingly. |
| 0:30.0 | And the example provided is, |
| 0:32.0 | love him or hate him, you have to admire Cohen's chutzpah. |
| 0:36.4 | Funny that they use the name Cohen, how cliched. |
| 0:39.5 | In Hebrew, it's chutzpah. |
| 0:42.0 | In English, chutzpah in English chutzpah it came to English from Yiddish why are we talking today |
| 0:47.9 | about it you're asking yourself |
| 0:49.7 | Sheila tova good question here is the reason. |
| 0:52.6 | We're not see, but all the Israeli, |
| 0:55.1 | and the Israeli, and the Israeli government has settled and |
| 0:57.7 | what, |
| 0:58.6 | alma, alma to get it had a tough tough, meatar. |
| 1:01.4 | Meet journalist Irrit Linuu talking Galais-Sahal, Army Radio, about the President of Israel |
| 1:07.0 | Ruven Rivlin. |
| 1:08.6 | The President said Israelis should go out to the squares to protest against the corruption of the government, |
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