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Streetwise Hebrew

#218 Could You Turn it Down a Bit?

Streetwise Hebrew

TLV1 Studios

Israel, Tlv1, Religion & Spirituality, Language Learning, Education, Language, Judaism, Hebrew, Streetwise

4.9 โ€ข 988 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 26 June 2018

โฑ๏ธ 9 minutes

๐Ÿงพ๏ธ Download transcript

Summary

There are several ways to ask an Israeli taxi driver to lower the volume on the radio that won't result in nasty looks. Today, Guy discusses these sayings and other words related to radio, like the Hebrew word for podcast.

Listen to the all-Hebrew version of this episode

New Words and Expressions:

Havita - Omlette - ื—ื‘ื™ืชื”

Aruhat boker israelit - Israeli breakfast - ืืจื•ื—ืช ื‘ื•ืงืจ ื™ืฉืจืืœื™ืช

Pirsomot - Commercials - ืคืจืกื•ืžื•ืช

Efshar lehahlish tipa? - Is it possible to turn it down a bit? - ืืคืฉืจ ืœื”ื—ืœื™ืฉ ื˜ื™ืคื”?

Ata yachol lehahlish (be)vakasha? - Could you turn it a bit down please? - ืืชื” ื™ื›ื•ืœ ืœื”ื—ืœื™ืฉ (ื‘)ื‘ืงืฉื”?

Ze ma-ze hazak, efshar lehalish? - Itโ€™s really loud, could you turn it down a bit? - ื–ื” ืžื”-ื–ื” ื—ื–ืง, ืืคืฉืจ ืœื”ื—ืœื™ืฉ?

Lehagbir - To turn up the volume - ืœื”ื’ื‘ื™ืจ

Tagbir, tagbir - Turn it up! - ืชื’ื‘ื™ืจ, ืชื’ื‘ื™ืจ

Lehaโ€™avir tahana - To switch to another station - ืœื”ืขื‘ื™ืจ ืชื—ื ื”

Ata yachol lehaโ€™avir tahana? - Could you change the channel? - ืืชื” ื™ื›ื•ืœ ืœื”ืขื‘ื™ืจ ืชื—ื ื”?

Tahanat radio - Radio station - ืชื—ื ืช ืจื“ื™ื•

Podcast - Podcast - ืคื•ื“ืงืกื˜

Radio interenti - Internet radio - ืจื“ื™ื• ืื™ื ื˜ืจื ื˜ื™

Hesket - Podcast - ื”ึถืกื›ึผึตืช

Lehaโ€™azin la-radio - To listen to the radio (archaic) - ืœื”ืื–ื™ืŸ ืœืจื“ื™ื•

Shamati ba-radio - I heard it on the radio - ืฉืžืขืชื™ ื‘ืจื“ื™ื•

Takshiv rega la-radio - Listen to the radio for a sec. - ืชืงืฉื™ื‘ ืจื’ืข ืœืจื“ื™ื•

Lehakshiv - To listen - ืœื”ืงืฉื™ื‘

Ani shomeโ€™a et ha-tochnit - I listen to the show - ืื ื™ ืฉื•ืžืข ืืช ื”ืชื•ื›ื ื™ืช

Ani makshiv la-tochnit - I listen to the show - ืื ื™ ืžืงืฉื™ื‘ ืœืชื•ื›ื ื™ืช

Mivzak hadashot - News flash - ืžื‘ื–ืง ื—ื“ืฉื•ืช

Azkara - Commemoration (jahrzeit) - ืื–ื›ืจื”

Playlist and Clips:

Tislam - Radio Hazak (lyrics)

Galey Tsahal - 7:07

Yoman Tsohorayim - Reshet Bet

Mahsanei Hashmal - commercial

Pipsim - Kol Israel

Pipsim 2 - Kol Israel

Mivzak hadashot - Galei Tsahal

Rigโ€™ey Kesem - Reshet Bet

Yael Levy - Tmuna

Alex Ansky

Kol Israel

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is TELB1.

0:10.0

Street-wise.

0:11.0

Shil' Shallow. It's me a guy with Streetwise Hebrew. I grew up in the household of a radio junkie, aka

0:24.8

I grew up in the household of a radio junkie

0:28.4

aka Scholomo Charrette my father.

0:30.9

Back in the 70s and 80s and even later on, radio was an important part of our life here in Israel.

0:37.0

Back then, TV sets had barely started making their way into the Israeli living room, and the radio was on all the time so I have strong

0:45.1

childhood memories of radio show jingles and the voices of Shadarim

0:49.8

radio anchors. This was our breakfast soundtrack for example. So imagine little me coming down from my room to have an omelet, salad, olives, toast, cheese, freshly squeezed orange juice.

1:15.0

Crazy I know.

1:16.3

A Uhat Boker Israeli, Israeli, Israeli,

1:18.8

breakfast.

1:20.4

Alex Ansky, a famous actor and radio persona, was reading newspaper headlines in the background.

1:26.0

This is not an episode about nostalgia.

1:29.0

Israelis spend many hours commuting and therefore we are exposed to a lot of radio especially

1:34.5

actualia which loosely translates as news items and this happens in cars taxis

1:41.3

buses the famous chorut, shared taxis, it's hard to get away from it.

1:46.6

So today we're going to learn cool radio-related words.

1:50.5

The idea for this topic came to me yesterday as I was in a taxi where the driver at first but when the Pirseumot started I started to breathe

2:17.3

uncomfortably.

2:18.3

Achab, be a mechasmal, me hear a reference on the television Big Dalim, but Simushmonaorechev in inch,

2:24.8

chavinch, chal I have a road Panasonic, Sony, LG, Samsung, Grundig,

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