#214 I Want to Improve My Hebrew
Streetwise Hebrew
TLV1 Studios
4.9 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
How do we say “I want to improve my Hebrew” in Hebrew? How about “improvements”? And what's the connection to the popular supermarket chain Shufersal? Guy explains.
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New Words and Expressions:
Leshaper mashehu - To improve something - לשפר משהו
Ani rotse leshaper et ha-ivrit sheli - I want to improve my Hebrew - אני רוצה לשפר את העברית שלי
Nehagim matkinim shipurim - Drivers install improvements - נהגים מתקינים שיפורים
Tse’irim she-meshaprim et bitsua ha-mechoniyot - Young people who improve the performance of the cars - צעירים שמשפרים את ביצוע המכוניות
Ha-ikar she-harechev shelahem yihiye hachi meshupar - The main thing is that their car will be the most improved - והעיקר שהרכב שלהם יהיה הכי משופר
Ha-mechoniyot she-shupru - The cars that were improved - המכוניות ששופרו
Shupar - It was improved - שופר
Girsa meshuperet - Improved version - גרסה משופרת
Telefon meshupar - An “improved” mobile phone - גרסה משופרת
Matsavo mishtaper - His situation is getting better - מצבו משתפר
Lehishtaper - To get better - להשתפר
Ha-ivrit shelo mamash hishtapra - His Hebrew has really gotten better - העברית שלו ממש השתפרה
Hu shiper et ha-ivrit shelo - He improved his Hebrew - הוא שיפר את העברית שלו
Shapir (Aramaic) - Good - שפיר
Gidul shapir - Benign tumor - גידול שפיר
Shapira - “The Good” (Aramaic) - שפירא
Shufra deshufra - Creme de la creme - שופרא דשופרא
Shufersal (Old name: Shufra-sal) - Name of a supermarket chain - שופרסל
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| 0:00.0 | This is TELV1. |
| 0:10.0 | St.C. |
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| 0:10.0 | St. Why? |
| 0:11.0 | Streatwise. |
| 0:12.0 | Shiloh, it's me a guy with Street-wise Hebrew. |
| 0:15.0 | Today we'll be talking about Le Chappir-Macheu to improve something, |
| 0:21.0 | route-shin pay-resh, Le Chappir. something. Hebrew version for our patrons, more info at Telv1. |
| 0:34.0 | F.M. slash SWH. |
| 0:36.6 | To Dalba to all our supporters. |
| 0:39.0 | Once a month we hold a live Skype chat with all our patrons who support us with $25 or more and nine times out of |
| 0:46.8 | ten someone on the call will try to say I want to improve my Hebrew or something along |
| 0:52.0 | these lines so let's learn how to say this. |
| 0:55.1 | The main usage is in Piel Leshapeel, Lamad Sheen Peresch, and it's a transitive verb which means it takes a direct object. |
| 1:06.7 | Le Chappelle, Mashehu, something to improve something. |
| 1:10.8 | Just like to eat an apple. No preposition. |
| 1:14.0 | Anir, let's chaper, |
| 1:16.0 | e taivritchele, I want to improve my Hebrew. |
| 1:19.0 | So I'm not simply the thing with the fact of the |
| 1:22.0 | se, but I'm not sure what's going to be This is a channel 2 news report about the same thing in shippurim by |
| 1:24.0 | on the only on the matter of the |
| 1:26.0 | on the nahont merits. |
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