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INTRODUCTION
Sherah: Hi everyone, and welcome back to HebrewPod101.com. This is Beginner Season 1 Lesson 22 - A Confusing Situation in Israel. Sherah Here.
Amir: שלום I'm Amir.
Sherah: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to build compound sentences in Hebrew. The conversation takes place on the phone.
Amir: It's between Asaf and Vered.
Sherah: The speakers are in a casual setting, so they’ll be using informal Hebrew. Okay, let's listen to the conversation.

Lesson conversation

ורד: היי אסף. שכחתי מתי אמרנו שאנחנו הולכים לסרט.
אסף: אמרנו שנלך ביום שישי.
ורד: באמת? לא ביום שבת אחרי הטיול שלי עם המשפחה?
אסף: לא, אמרת שאולי זה יהיה מאוחר מדי.
ורד: אהה נכון.
אסף: מתי נפגש ביום שישי?
ורד: אתה רוצה להיפגש בשבע בקולנוע?
אסף: בסדר גמור.
Sherah: Listen to the conversation one time slowly.
ורד: היי אסף. שחכתי מתי אמרנו שאנחנו הולכים לסרט.
אסף: אמרנו שנלך ביום שישי.
ורד: באמת? לא ביום שבת אחרי הטיול שלי עם המשפחה?
אסף: לא, אמרת שאולי זה יהיה מאוחר מדי.
ורד: אהה נכון.
אסף: מתי נפגש ביום שישי?
ורד: אתה רוצה להיפגש בשבע בקולנוע?
אסף: בסדר גמור.
Sherah: Listen to the conversation with the English translation
Rose: Hi Assaf. I forgot when we said we’d go to the movie.
Asaf: We said that we’d go on Friday.
Rose: Really? Not on Saturday after my trip with the family?
Asaf: No, you said it might be too late.
Rose: Yeah right.
Asaf: When will we meet on Friday?
Vered: Do you want to meet at seven at the cinema?
Asaf: Very well.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Sherah: So, we want to talk about a sad, sad reality in Israel.
Amir: We have such short weekends!!!
Sherah: Most people look forward to relaxing on the weekend, but in Israel by the time you’ve started to relax you are already starting into the next week.
Amir: Israeli weekends are technically only a day and a half.
Sherah: They start on Friday in the early afternoon and continue until Saturday night.
Amir: On Sunday, everyone goes back to work.
Sherah: On Friday mornings, most children go to school in the mornings, but usually only for half a day.
Amir: And there are many workers who work on Friday mornings, although it’s not everyone.
Sherah: Shops are open until around two in the afternoon.
Amir: Many Israelis do their shopping then.
Sherah: It’s especially convenient if your children are in school.
Amir: If you come from a country where you have a two-day weekend, Israeli weekends will certainly feel a bit short.
Sherah: You can say that again! Okay, now onto the vocab.
VOCAB LIST
Sherah: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is..
Amir: לשכוח [natural native speed]
Sherah: to forget
Amir: לשכוח[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: לשכוח [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: סרט [natural native speed]
Sherah: movie
Amir: סרט[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: סרט [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: לומר [natural native speed]
Sherah: to say
Amir: לומר[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: לומר [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: טיול [natural native speed]
Sherah: trip
Amir: טיול[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: טיול [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: אולי [natural native speed]
Sherah: maybe, perhaps
Amir: אולי[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: אולי [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: מאוחר [natural native speed]
Sherah: late
Amir: מאוחר[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: מאוחר [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: להיפגש [natural native speed]
Sherah: to meet
Amir: להיפגש[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: להיפגש [natural native speed]
Sherah: Next we have..
Amir: קולנוע [natural native speed]
Sherah: cinema
Amir: קולנוע[slowly - broken down by syllable]
Amir: קולנוע [natural native speed]
KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES
Sherah: Let's take a closer look at the usage of some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first word is..
Amir: לשכוח
Sherah: meaning "to forget"
Amir: This verb is slightly irregular because of the guttural consonant het, which is the last letter of the root.
Sherah: This changes the vowel pattern of some of the conjugations.
Amir: For instance, the masculine singular form in the present tense is שוכח.
Sherah: The extra “ah” vowel is added before the het at the end.
Amir: One expression that uses this verb is שכח מזה, meaning “forget it!”.
Sherah: Can you give us another example using this word?
Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. הילד תמיד שוכח את המעיל שלו.
Sherah: ..which means "The boy always forgets his coat." Okay, what's the next word?
Amir: להיפגש
Sherah: meaning "to meet"
Amir: This verb is from the nifal verb group.
Sherah: It means to “meet by design”.
Amir: The same root appears in the pa’al verb group and also means “to meet”.
Sherah: That’s לפגוש and it means “to meet by accident”.
Amir: These two verbs often confuse Hebrew learners.
Sherah: להיפגש is often paired with the preposition עם, meaning “to meet with”. Can you give us an example using this word Amir?
Amir: Sure. For example, you can say.. המורים נפגשים עם ההורים.
Sherah: .. which means "The teachers are meeting with the parents." Okay, now onto the grammar.

Lesson focus

Sherah: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to clear up a misunderstanding using the conjunction -ש. Amir, would you like to start off with our sample sentence from the dialogue?
Amir: Sure! The sentence we want to take a look at is שכחתי מתי אמרנו שאנחנו הולכים לסרט.
Sherah: As you can see from this sentence, clearing up a misunderstanding can involve the use of compound sentences.
Amir: The sample sentence has three parts.
Sherah: It begins with שכחתי, the past tense of the verb לשכח which means “I forgot”.
Amir: This is followed by the word מתי or “when”.
Sherah: After this, we have another verb in the past tense, אמרנו meaning “we said”.
Amir: These first three words שכחתי מתי אמרנו form the first part of the sentence.
Sherah: The first and second parts of the sentence are separated by the word -ש meaning “that”.
Amir: In Hebrew, using compound sentences to explain something requires the use of the subordinator -ש (she-).
Sherah: This word separates the two clauses of a sentence.
Amir: -ש can also mean “which” and is used similarly to “that” and “which” in English.
Sherah: -ש is a word that attaches to the word it comes before and does not stand on its own.
Amir: The second part of the sentence is a complete sentence, אנחנו הולכים לסרט.
Sherah: It means “we’re going to a movie”.
Amir: You can use the first part of the sentence as is and change the last part of the sentence to apply to other situations.
Sherah: For instance, you could say you’ve forgotten when you said you would work on your project together.
Amir: And then you would say שכחתי מתי אמרנו שנעבוד על הפרויקט ביחד
Sherah: Or you could say you’ve forgotten when you said you are going for coffee.
Amir: This is שכחתי מתי אמרנו שנלך לשתות קפה ביחד
Sherah: Going back to the dialogue, Asaf tells Vered אמרנו שנלך ביום שישי.
Amir: This is also a compound sentence.
Sherah: It means “we said that we’d go on Friday”.
Amir: Here again the two parts are separated by -ש.
Sherah: Interestingly, in this sentence “that” in English could be left out, but in the Hebrew -ש cannot be omitted.

Outro

Sherah: Okay, that’s all for this lesson. Thank you for listening, everyone, and we’ll see you next time! Bye!
Amir: תודה

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