#85 Summoning the Linguistic Chakra
Streetwise Hebrew
TLV1 Studios
4.9 โข 1.1K Ratings
๐๏ธ 27 January 2026
โฑ๏ธ 9 minutes
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Summary
Guy shares his top 10 tips on how to rejuvenate your linguistic inner self:
1. Find stuff you love and read about it in Hebrew.
2. Songs on StreetwiseHebrew.comย
3. Radio: Israeli National Radio in 10 languages
4. Flash cards all over your home
5. Saying new words out loud. Talk to AI and the Google Translate App.
6. Tandem with a Hebrew speaker. You can message me through Patreon with your location or timezone and we'll try to find other patrons with similar schedules willing to work on spoken Hebrew.ย
7. Facebook your Hebrew.
8. Likpotz la-mayim, ืืงืคืืฅ ืืืื, jump into the water.
9. Ani rotse/ Ani rotsa ledaber be'ivrit, ืื ื ืจืืฆื ืืืืจ ืืขืืจืืช, I want to speak Hebrew. Ani lomed/lomedet ivrit, ืื ื ืืืื/ืช ืขืืจืืช, I learn Hebrew. Ani chayav/chayevet, ืื ื ืืืื/ืช, I must, ledaber ivrit, to speak Hebrew.
10. Magazines, children books, newspapers, websites, inflight magazines.
El Al inflight magazine โ Eng./Heb.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is TLV1. |
| 0:10.5 | Streetwise Hebrew. |
| 0:12.7 | Shalom. |
| 0:13.7 | It's me, Guy from Streetwise Hebrew. |
| 0:15.8 | Today I'd like to talk about opening our linguistic chakras. |
| 0:20.5 | I meet lots of people who studied Hebrew when they were kids. |
| 0:24.1 | Many saw it as a punishment, a horrible Sunday school experience. |
| 0:28.4 | Lots of diaspora Jewish families send their kids to learn Hebrew on Sunday, and often the teachers, |
| 0:33.9 | how shall I put it, are not so passionate about teaching slang, real-life Hebrew, |
| 0:39.2 | but only teach the alphabet, reading texts from the prayers, etc. And it's not only Hebrew. Lots of |
| 0:45.6 | parents from migrant communities around the world want their kids to speak their homeland language, |
| 0:50.5 | and they can send them to learn Urdu, Arabic, also not always taught in a fun way. |
| 0:56.1 | Today I'd like to share with you some tips regarding how to rejuvenate your linguistic inner self. |
| 1:02.2 | Tip number one. I love planes and aviation. I learn Polish these days. I go to websites about |
| 1:09.1 | planes in Polish. You can do the same. Scuba diving in Hebrew, |
| 1:13.9 | Israeli floral arrangements, anything really. Once you've got affinity to the subject, it's no |
| 1:19.1 | longer a chore. So through osmosis, I'll learn how to say route destination and engine, let's say, |
| 1:25.6 | in Polish, and I kind of forget it's an exercise and it's |
| 1:29.7 | supposed to be boring. Find stuff you love and read about it in Hebrew. Tip number two, songs. |
| 1:37.1 | Surround yourself with the sound of Hebrew. On my website, streetwisehebrew.com, under Songs, |
| 1:43.2 | I made three long playlists of Israeli songs with |
| 1:46.9 | links to their lyrics. Now, I don't say you have to work on them all, but if you wash dishes |
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