#80 High-Tech Hebrew

Streetwise Hebrew

TLV1 Studios

Language Learning, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

You can't be in the Start-up Nation and not know how to talk tech in Hebrew. Guy teaches us how to say "attachment," "text message," and "chat" in Hebrew, and how to conjugate the verb לסמס. Things are about to get geeky!

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New Words and Expressions:

Telefon nayad, telefon cellulari – Cellphone – טלפון נייד, טלפון סלולרי

Titkasher elay la-nayad – Call me on my cellphone – תתקשר אליי לנייד

Pelephone – Cellphone – פלאפון

"Talpeni, talepni" – Call (Imp. fem) – טלפני, טלפני

"Mitkasher elayich at lo ona" – I am calling you, you don't answer – מתקשר אלייך את לא עונה

Telefon Kavi – Home phone, landline – טלפון קווי

Titkasheri elay rega lakavi – Call me on my landline for a sec. – תתקשרי אליי רגע לקווי

Mekoovan – Online – מקוון

Sheroot mekoovan – Online service – שירות מקוון

"Ba-boker kibalti email katsar ve-nechmad" – In the morning I got a short and nice email – בבוקר קיבלתי אימייל קצר ונחמד

Imeylim, meilim – Emails – אימיילים, מיילים

Doar electroni (doel) – Email – דואר אלקטרוני, דואל

"Lo sholchim misron bi-nhiga" – You don't send a message while driving – לא שולחים מסרון בנהיגה

Misron – SMS, message – מסרון

"Ata shloe'ach hoda'ah" – You're sending a message – אתה שולח הודעה

Lesames le-mishehu – To send an sms to someone – לסמס למישהו

Lehistames – To sms one another – להסתמס

Histamasnoo kama sha'ot – We chatted via sms for a few hours – הסתמסנו כמה שעות

Lishloach hoda'ah – To send a message – לשלוח הודעה

Shalachti lo hoda'ah – I sent him a message – שלחתי לו הודעה

Yisoom, yisoomon, aplikatsya – Cell phone application – יישום, יישומון, אפליקציה

Yisoomonim le-telefonim chachamim – Smart phone applications – יישומון לטלפונים חכמים

Leyasem – To implement – ליישם

Eich lehorid shirim – How to download songs – איך להוריד שירים

Patschan – Hacker – פצחן

Lefatse'ach – To crack – לפצח

Tsroofa – Attachement – צרופה

Mirshetet – Internet – מרשתת

Blog – Yoman reshet – בלוג

Lechotet – To chat – לצ'וטט

Playlist and Clips:

Shlomo Artzi – Talpeni, talpeni (lyrics)

Doda – Erev Avood (lyrics)

HOT TV – Commercial

Miri Messika – Af Ahat (lyrics)

Misron – Sms

Sarit Hadad – Hoshevet Alecha (lyrics)

Eich lehorid shirim

Ep. no. 155 about lehorid, to download

Ep. No. 208 about limsor, to pass HEB

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is TLB1.
0:10.4	Shalom.
0:12.8	Shalom.
0:13.6	It's me Guy from Streetwise Hebrew.
0:15.8	Our dear listener, Danny Gilbert from Rio Grande Valley, Texas, wrote me I should talk
0:20.1	about technology words,
0:21.7	mobile phone, apps, SMS. How do you say these things in Hebrew? Great idea, Danny. Thanks for
0:27.2	this. Keep on sending these thoughts. Write me on Facebook, streetwise, one word, Hebrew. And anyway,
0:33.1	feel free to say, hey, tell me where you are on the planet. I remind you, a list of the new words is on
0:38.7	TLV1.fm slash streetwise Hebrew on today's episode, and if you use your iPad or smartphone, press
0:45.1	the logo and you'll see the new words suddenly appearing in front of you like there's no tomorrow.
0:50.6	So let's start with a mobile phone. Telephone, or just naïad, or pelephone.
0:57.5	So, na'ad is mobile.
0:59.6	Telephone na'iad.
1:01.1	Many people just say, na'ad.
1:03.1	Tittkashire to me on my mobile.
1:06.1	Pelle phone is the name of a company, and for a while it meant also a mobile phone.
1:11.1	Pelle is miracle, together with phone.
1:14.0	It made a miracle phone, Pellephone.
1:16.5	Now people use it less, but you can still hear it around.
1:19.8	Telephone cellulari is also used on the media. Talpani, talpani, because if not a zedak,
1:28.8	Gamimek day doagetheed
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