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INTRODUCTION
Sherah: Hello and welcome to hebrewpod101.com. This is Lower Beginner Series Season 1, Lesson 2 - Asking for Directions in Hebrew. I’m your host, Sherah!
Amir: And I am Amir.
Sherah: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use prefixed and independent prepositions.
Amir: The conversation takes place at the airport in Israel
Sherah: It’s between Anna and Ram, an immigration representative.
Amir: The speakers are strangers and they’ll be using informal Hebrew.
Sherah: Let’s listen to the conversation.
DIALOGUE
אנה: שלום, שמי אנה שחר. ירדתי ממטוס עכשיו. איפה האוטובוס לקיבוץ יגור?
Anna: Shalom, sh’mi Anna Shaħar. Ya’rad’ti mi-matos akh’shav. Eifo ha-otobus le-kibutz yagur?
רם: שלום אנה. ברוכה הבאה לישראל.
Ram: Shalom Anna. Brukhah ha-ba’ah li-yis’ra’el.
אנה: תודה.
Anna: Todah.
רם: האוטובוס לקיבוץ יגור נמצא בחוץ בצד ימין. יש שם שלט על האוטובוס.
Ram: Ha-otobus le-kibutz yagur nim’tza ba-ħutz be-tzad yamin. Yesh sham shelet al ha-otobus.
אנה: תודה רבה.
Anna: Todah rabah.
רם: בהצלחה אנה
Ram: Be-hatz’laħah Anna.
Sherah: Let’s listen to the conversation one more time, slowly.
אנה: שלום, שמי אנה שחר. ירדתי ממטוס עכשיו. איפה האוטובוס לקיבוץ יגור?
Anna: Shalom, sh’mi Anna Shaħar. Ya’rad’ti mi-matos akh’shav. Eifo ha-otobus le-kibutz yagur?
רם: שלום אנה. ברוכה הבאה לישראל.
Ram: Shalom Anna. Brukhah ha-ba’ah li-yis’ra’el.
אנה: תודה.
Anna: Todah.
רם: האוטובוס לקיבוץ יגור נמצא בחוץ בצד ימין. יש שם שלט על האוטובוס.
Ram: Ha-otobus le-kibutz yagur nim’tza ba-ħutz be-tzad yamin. Yesh sham shelet al ha-otobus.
אנה: תודה רבה.
Anna: Todah rabah.
רם: בהצלחה אנה
Ram: Be-hatz’laħah Anna.
Sherah: Now, let’s hear it with the English translation.
אנה: שלום, שמי אנה שחר. ירדתי ממטוס עכשיו. איפה האוטובוס לקיבוץ יגור?
Anna: Shalom, sh’mi Anna Shaħar. Ya’rad’ti mi-matos akh’shav. Eifo ha-otobus le-kibutz yagur?
Anna: Hello. My name is Anna Shachar. I got off a plane just now. Where is the bus to Kibbutz Yagur?
רם: שלום אנה. ברוכה הבאה לישראל.
Ram: Shalom Anna. Brukhah ha-ba’ah li-yis’ra’el.
Ram: Hello, Anna. Welcome to Israel.
אנה: תודה.
Anna: Todah.
Anna: Thank you.
רם: האוטובוס לקיבוץ יגור נמצא בחוץ בצד ימין. יש שם שלט על האוטובוס.
Ram: Ha-otobus le-kibutz yagur nim’tza ba-ħutz be-tzad yamin. Yesh sham shelet al ha-otobus.
Ram: The bus to Kibbutz Yagur is outside on the right side. There is a sign on the bus.
אנה: תודה רבה.
Anna: Todah rabah.
Anna: Many thanks.
רם: בהצלחה אנה
Ram: Be-hatz’laħah Anna.
Ram: Good luck, Anna.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Sherah: Many new immigrants like Anna choose to spend their first months in Israel on a kibbutz.
Amir: A kibbutz is a communal settlement where members share everything, including the work and the profits of their work.
Sherah: Kibbutzim are a very important part of Israeli history, because they developed out of a need for survival.
Amir: The first settlers in Palestine were often attacked by other people in the region and had to try to survive financially and materially.
Sherah: The best way to survive was to form a small communal settlement. In 1909, the first kibbutz was founded near the Sea of Galilee by 12 people, and it was called Deganiya.
Amir: The culture of each kibbutz varied, but all of the kibbutzim shared the work and income from the kibbutz equally.
Sherah: Part of living as a community meant eating all their meals in the dining hall together, celebrating holidays together, and working as a whole.
Amir: Even children used to be raised together in a children’s home, and people couldn’t have their own private possessions.
Sherah: These are some of the things that unified the people in the kibbutz, but it also began to erode the whole system.
Amir: Until the 1970s, kibbutzim thrived. Today, unless the kibbutz is doing extremely well, they’ve probably changed to a more privatized existence.
Sherah: Yes, the kibbutz today is different than it used to be. Now let’s move on to the vocabulary.
VOCAB LIST
Sherah: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson.
Sherah: The first word we shall see is...
Amir: שמי [natural native speed]
Sherah: my name
Amir: שמי [slowly - broken down by syllable] שמי [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next
Amir: ברוך הבא [natural native speed]
Sherah: welcome
Amir: ברוך הבא [slowly - broken down by syllable] ברוך הבא [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next
Amir: אוטובוס [natural native speed]
Sherah: bus
Amir: אוטובוס [slowly - broken down by syllable] אוטובוס [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next
Amir: לרדת/ירד [natural native speed]
Sherah: to go down
Amir: לרדת/ירד [slowly - broken down by syllable] לרדת/ירד [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next
Amir: להימצא/נמצא [natural native speed]
Sherah: to be found
Amir: להימצא/נמצא [slowly - broken down by syllable] להימצא/נמצא [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next
Amir: בחוץ [natural native speed]
Sherah: on the outside
Amir: בחוץ [slowly - broken down by syllable] בחוץ [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next
Amir: שלט [natural native speed]
Sherah: sign
Amir: שלט [slowly - broken down by syllable] שלט [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next
Amir: קיבוץ [natural native speed]
Sherah: kibbutz - a communal settlement
Amir: קיבוץ [slowly - broken down by syllable] קיבוץ [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next
Amir: בהצלחה [natural native speed]
Sherah: Good luck, Good luck with success
Amir: בהצלחה [slowly - broken down by syllable] בהצלחה [natural native speed]
Sherah: And last...
Amir: תודה רבה [natural native speed]
Sherah: many thanks
Amir: תודה רבה [slowly - broken down by syllable] תודה רבה [natural native speed]
KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES
Sherah: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first phrase is לרדת.
Amir: לרדת means “to go down” or “to come down”.
Sherah: This verb can be used in many different situations - for instance, you can use it to talk about getting out of a car or a bus.
Amir: You can also use it if you are going south in the country, like if you were going down to Eilat.
Sherah: Right, אני יורדת לאילת. I am going down to Eilat. Well,that’s always fun.
Amir: You can also use it to say that you have lost weight or ירדתי במשקל.
Sherah: The last expression you can use it for is to talk about someone who has emigrated from Israel or left Israel. They would be יורד מן הארץ.
Amir: The next word we want to talk about is בחוץ.
Sherah: This is made of two words, the preposition -ב which means “on the” and ,חוץ which means “outside”, so together this means “on the outside”.
Amir: This can also mean “externally”.
Sherah: The last word that we want to talk about is בהצלחה or “good luck”.
Amir: We say this a lot in Israel, but technically it doesn’t translate as “good luck”.
Sherah: No, it doesn’t. The literal translation is “with success”.
Amir: You can say it as a positive wish, or you could use it ironically.
Sherah: I really like to wish people בהצלחה, because it has a real positive feeling to it.
Amir: Wishing someone luck seems so random, whereas wishing someone success is more like you believe in their abilities.
Sherah: Maybe that’s why I like it. Okay, let’s move on to the Grammar.
GRAMMAR POINT
Sherah: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use prefixed and independent prepositions.. .
Amir: In Hebrew, there are two different types of prepositions.
Sherah: Right, there are a handful of prepositions that are attached to the noun they modify, and then there are other prepositions that are independent from the noun they modify.
Amir: In our dialogue, there were examples of both. There were three prefixed prepositions that appeared in the dialogue... -ב, -ל and -מ.
Sherah: Let’s start with our sample sentence from the dialogue. Ram said, האוטובוס לקיבוץ יגור בחוץ בצד ימין. The first preposition in that sentence is -ל and in this case it means “to”.
Amir: The preposition -ב appears twice in the rest of the sentence. Here it means “on”.
Sherah: When you have a prefixed preposition, most of the time the prefix will be followed by a shva vowel, which is a short “e” sound.
Amir: The vowel may change to a long “ee” sound depending on the first letter of the noun it’s attached to, but most of the time it’s a short “e” sound.
Sherah: Right, and that’s what you hear in this example sentence when Ram says האוטובוס לקיבוץ יגור נמצא בחוץ בצד ימין. [emphasize the shva vowels on the prepositions.]
Amir: And if you add a -ה, the preposition is said with an “ah” vowel.
Sherah: This is also seen in the same sentence when Ram says בחוץ, which is “on the outside”.
Amir: In this one sentence, we covered two prefixed prepositions, but there are two more.
Sherah: There is another one in our dialogue, which is -מ. In the first line of the dialogue, Anna says ירדתי ממטוס עכשיו. “I got off a plane just now.”
Amir: The last prefixed preposition is -כ which means “as”. There aren’t any examples of this in the dialogue, so let’s give you our own example. אני יורד לשחק כרגיל.
Sherah: “I am going down to play as normal.” There is also an example of an independent preposition in the dialogue, just to show the difference.
Amir: Right, Ram says, יש שם שלט על האוטובוס. In this sentence, על is the preposition and it means “on”.
Sherah: Just to get you used to hearing these prepositions in the context of a sentence, Amir is going to give you an example sentence with each preposition, and I will give you the translation.
Amir: For example, אני יורד במשקל.
Sherah: “I am losing weight.” Technically, “I am going down in weight.” The preposition here is ב.
Amir: אני יורד לאילת.
Sherah: “I am going down to Eilat.” The preposition here is ל.
Amir: אני יורד מאוטובוס..
Sherah: “I’m getting off a bus.” The preposition in this sentence is מ.
Amir: אני יורד לשחק כרגיל.
Sherah: “I am going down to play as normal.” And here, the preposition is כ.

Outro

Sherah: Okay, well, that’s it for this lesson. Make sure you check the lesson notes, and we’ll see you next time!
Amir: להתראות!

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