#267 Six Is a Beautiful Number

Streetwise Hebrew

TLV1 Studios

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

4.9 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week we celebrate our podcast’s sixth anniversary. Can you believe it? Six years, שש שנים. It's a good excuse to talk about שש, six, and its family of Hebrew words.

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New Words and Expressions:

Kvish shesh - Highway six - כביש שש

Kvish hotse Israel - Cross Israel highway - כביש חוצה ישראל

Kav shesh - Bus no. 6 - קו שש

Hayinu shisha - We were six (pl. m.) - היינו שישה

Shisha chaverim - Six friends (m.) - שישה חברים

Shisha yeladim - Six kids (m.) - שישה ילדים

Shisha banim - Six boys - שישה בנים

Hayinu shesh - We were six (pl. f.) - היינו שש

Shesh chaverot - Six friends (pl. f.) - שש חברות

Shesh nashim - Six women - שש נשים

Six girls - Shesh banot - שש בנות

Adom, aduma, adumim - Red (m., f., pl.) - אדום, אדומה, אדומים

Ez/Izim - Goat/goats - עז, עיזים

The six friends - Sheshet ha-chaverim - ששת החברים

Milchemet sheshet hayamim - The 6 Day War - מלחמת ששת הימים

Shesh ha-chaverot - The six friends (f.) - שש החברות

Shesh ha-nashim - The six women - שש הנשים

Shesh ha-banot - The six girls - שש הבנות

Shesh va-hetsi ba-boker - 6.30am - שש וחצי בבוקר

Shesh ba-erev - 6pm - שש בערב

Re’iya shesh-shesh - 6 over 6 vision (US: 20 20) - ראייה שש-שש

Shnot ha-shishim - The sixties - שנות השישים

Shnot ha-shloshim - The thirties - שנות השלושים

Shnot ha-shmonim - The eighties - שנות השמונים

600 - Shesh me’ot - שש מאות

6,000 - Sheshet alafim - ששת אלפים

60,000 - Shishim elef - שישים אלף

600,000 - Shesh me’ot elef - שש מאות אלף

6,000,000 - Shisha milion - שישה מיליון

6,000,000,000 - Shisha miliard - שישה מיליארד

Playlist and Clips:

Kvish 6

Ha-tikva 6 - Ha-ivrit Ha-chadasha (lyrics)

Shlomo Artzi - Shisha (lyrics)

Milchemet Sheshet Ha-yamim - 6 Day War

Yehuda Poliker - Boker Yom Rishon (lyrics)

Shesh-shesh

Shlomo Artzi - Lev Shavur Li-resisim (lyrics)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is T.L.B. 1.
0:10.0	Street-wise.
0:11.0	Hebrew.
0:12.0	Shalom. It's me guy with street-wise Hebrew. Shalom, it's me Guy with Streetwise Hebrew.
0:16.0	This week we celebrate our podcast sixth anniversary, Lola Amin, six years, an episode a week, it's become an integral part of our life.
0:25.0	So today we'll talk about Sheshh, six in its different forms.
0:30.0	But before we begin, I encourage you to listen to the all Hebrew versions of our episodes.
0:35.4	I record each episode twice.
0:37.6	Once in English and once in Hebrew, the Hebrew versions are made available to patrons who support the show at $5 a month.
0:45.9	The one suggestion I recommend most to listeners who ask me how they can improve their Hebrew
0:50.8	more quickly is to listen to the Hebrew episode and only then to the English
0:56.0	episode. By listening in this order you will come to realize just how much you understand
1:01.5	new words and structures intuitively, fill in the gaps by then listening in English,
1:07.6	and after that go to the episode show Notes and review everything properly. Along with each Hebrew version we provide another useful resource,
1:17.0	the whole script in Hebrew, which you can follow word for word.
1:21.2	I really enjoy creating the all Hebrew episodes because that means you get to hear me speak my mother tongue,
1:27.6	which is when I'm more in sync with my linguistic inner self.
1:32.0	To become a patron, go to TLV1.
1:35.0	FM slash SWH.
1:37.0	We really appreciate your support,
1:39.0	Hamona Monte de la micha.
1:40.0	But enough talking, now to Sheshish.
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