#279 Boys and Girls! It's Story Time
Streetwise Hebrew
TLV1 Studios
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🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The Hebrew word סיפור (sipur) means a story. Though in certain situations סיפור could also mean a matter, a thing, or a mess.
The root ס.פ.ר acts a bit funny in some of its verb formats. No need to worry because on this episode Guy explains it all.
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New Words and Expressions:
Ze haya sipur shel horef - It was a winter (love) story - זה היה סיפור של חורף
Sipur ahava - Love story - סיפור אהבה
Haya li sipur ito/ita - I had a (love) story with him/her - היה לי סיפור איתו/איתה
Eize sipur achshav - What a mess - איזה סיפור עכשיו
Festival mesaprei sipurim - Storytelling festival - פסטיבל מספרי סיפורים
Lesaper sipur - To tell a story - לספר סיפור
Saper ma nishma, saper eich haya - Tell me how you’re doing, tell me how it went - ספר מה נשמע, ספר איך היה
Saper, sapri, sapru - Tell (Imp., m., f., pl.) - ספר, ספרי, ספרו
Al tesaper la - Don’t (m.) tell her - אל תספר לה
Al tesapri lo - Don’t (f.) tell him - אל תספרי לו
Al tesapru lahem - Don’t tell them - אל תספרו להם
Ma ata mesaper / ma at mesaperet - What are you telling, what do you have to say, what’s new? - מה אתה מספר/מה את מספרת
Ma hu m’saper? - What’s new with him? - ?מה הוא מספר
Haya li sipur im X - I had a problem with X - היה לי סיפור עם מישהו/משהו
Haya li sipur im hevrat hashmal - I had an issue with the electricity company - היה לי סיפור עם חברת חשמל
Haya li eize sipur ba-avoda - I had some kind of an issue at work - היה לי איזה סיפור בעבודה
Sipurim, sipurim, sipurim - They always got stories… - סיפורים, סיפורים, סיפורים
Ha-sipur supar - The story was told - הסיפור סופר
Mesupar - Told - מסופר
Mesupar she… - It is told that - ...מסופר ש
Mesupar al rabbi X, she… - It is said that rabbi X... - ...מסופר על רבי איקס ש
Lo ye’uman ki yesupar - It’s unbelievable - לא יאומן כי יסופר
Tisporet - Haircut - תספורת
Ani tsarich/tsricha lehistaper - I need to get a haircut - אני צריך/צריכה להסתפר
Histaparta? Histapart? - Did you get a haircut? - ?הסתפרת
Lispor - To count - לספור
Sfira - Counting - ספירה
Nispar - It was counted - נספר
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Miki Gavrielov & Smadar Vimzer (lyrics)
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| 0:00.0 | This is T.L.B. 1. |
| 0:07.0 | Street-wise. |
| 0:11.0 | Chalo. It's me Guy. Street-wise Hebrew. |
| 0:13.0 | Shalo, it's me Guy with Street-wise Hebrew. |
| 0:16.0 | Thank you to everyone who has gotten hold of Ruben's online Hebrew pronunciation course. |
| 0:21.0 | I'd love to hear how your practice is coming along. If you don't know what I'm |
| 0:25.2 | referring to then please listen to the bonus audio we put out on the feed. I received |
| 0:30.6 | many messages asking how to drastically improve once spoken Hebrew. |
| 0:34.5 | This is why I was so happy to find Ruben and immediately fell in love with his videos |
| 0:39.8 | in which he helps viewers sound more Israeli. For a limited time you can get the course at a special |
| 0:45.6 | six podcastiversary price through the link TLV1.F.M. slash Happy6 or simply find the link in the show notes. |
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| 1:11.1 | weekly. Here is a podcast idea if it doesn't already exist. |
| 1:15.4 | The various forms of the route Samich Pei Resh, Le Sapir, Le Hystapir, Lispel, Liso, et cetera. |
| 1:23.0 | Raiontov, Elin, A to Darba. |
| 1:25.0 | So today I'd like to talk about Sippur story |
| 1:28.0 | and to explain some things about its root, |
| 1:31.0 | some of |
| 1:33.7 | some of Peresch, which takes on different bignanim verb formats. I'm not ever there. Then I'm no lee, |
| 1:44.0 | hale limb of sander. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, I'm a simple |
| 1:50.0 | shall hoorhe, |
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