Lyrics: Yoram Teharlev Melody: Yair Kalinger Performance: Northern Command military band
“Get up and walk around the land With a satchel and with a walking stick And surely, on your way, you will meet The land of Israel again You will be embraced by the roads Of the good land She will call you to her As into a bed of love
This indeed is the same land, This is the same soil And the same piece of the rock Which is burnt in the sun, And underneath the asphalt To the showcase buildings, The motherland is hiding Shy and humble
Get up and walk around the land…
And the groves of the olive trees And the hiding place of the spring Are still protecting her dream And our old dream, And the roofs which are reddening over the mountain And children on the roads, In the place where we were walking With webbings and satchels
Lyrics:Yoram Teharlev Melody:Rami Kleinstein Performance:Northern Command military band
“Our tiny land, our beautiful land A motherland without a nightshirt, a barefoot homeland Accept me into your songs, you beautiful bride Open your gates to me, I will go through them thanking the Lord
In the shadow of the grove trees, far away from the light of the sun Together, we will hit a root into the heart of the soil To the bright springs, into the wells of innocence A homeland without a title and an orphan gypsy
Your wonders have not ceased yet The melody is still floating My heart is still beating at night And quietly whispers: You are to me the only one You are to me a mother and a daughter You are to me the few, The few that is left
In our clothes, we will carry the smell of the villages In the bell of our hearts, the flocks will beat There is a calming silence And a beautiful ray of light, And to its light we will walk with a bare foot
Example sentence: אַסְיָה הִיא הַיַּבֶּשֶׁת הַגְּדוֹלַה בְּיוֹתֵר As'ya hi hayabeshet hagdola beyoter Asia is the largest continent.
יבשות yabashót Continents
Example sentence: יֵשׁ שֶׁבַע יַבָּשׁוֹת yesh sheva yabashot There are seven continents.
אוֹסְטְרַלְיָה/אוֹקְיַנְיָה - Ostrália/Ok'yánia - Australia/Oceania אֵירוֹפָּה - Eirópa - Europe אָמֶרִיקָה הַדְּרוֹמִית - Amérika hadromít - South America אָמֶרִיקָה הַצְּפוֹנִית - Amérika hatzfonít - North America אַנְטַרְקְטִיקָה - Antárktika- Antarctica אַסְיָה- Ás'ya - Asia
In Hebrew, the seventh letter’s name, zayin, also means ‘dick’, possibly originating as a shorthand for the more vulgar zereg. This term has probably sprung up some time during the Middle Ages. Hebrew speakers have been doing this whole ruining a letter by associating it with the penis thing long before English speakers decided to ruin the letter D for good.
We know that we can indicate laughter on the Internet in English by merely typing “haha”, but have you ever wondered how other languages indicate laughter in chats, text messaging and Social Media? We’ve compiled a list, just for you!
English – “hahaha”, “LOL”
Spanish – “jajaja”
Arabic – “ههههه” (“hhhhh” – Arabic doesn’t write short vowels, so that could be read as “hahahahaha”)
Example sentence: יוֹם כִּפּוּר הוּא הַיּוֹם הַקָּדוֹשׁ בְּיוֹתֵר בְּשָׁנָה הַיְּהוּדִית. yom kipur hu hayom hakadosh beyoter bashana hayehudit The Day of Atonement is the holiest day of the Jewish year.
קשת בענן (f) késhet beanán Rainbow (lit., a bow in a cloud)
Example sentence: לְפִי הַמָּסֹרֶת הַיְּהוּדִית, קֶשֶׁת בְּעָנָן הִיא הַתִּזְכֹּרֶת לְהַבְטָחַת אֱלֹהִים לְנָח לְאַחֵר הַמַּבּוּל. lefi hamasoret hayehudit, keshet beanan hi hatizkoret lehavtachat Elohim leNoach leachar hamabul According to the Jewish tradition, the rainbow is the remainder for God’s promise to Noah after the Deluge.
Example sentence: הַיְּלָדִים אוֹהֲבִים לְקַפֵּץ בֵּין הַשְּׁלוּלִיוֹת hayeladim ohavim lekapetz bein hashluliyot The children love to jump between the puddles
Example sentence: בְּחֶשְׁוָן יָרַד יוֹרֶה וְעַל גַגִי רָקַד Becheshvan yarad yore veal gagi rakad In Cheshvan, the first rain fell and danced upon my roof
If you’re looking to practice a bit and remember your target language better… here are tons of free worksheets/workbooks for 34 languages (Japanese, Spanish, Korean, French, German, etc, etc.)
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It’s the same type of “fill in the blank” workbook across all of their languages but the magic in actually rewriting things over and over is that the words end up sticking. Plus, there are English sections where you’ll have to force yourself to remember and write the word/phrase in the target language - which is even better for your memory (called active recall - forcing yourself to remember). I’m personally a big fan of this approach and I’d do similar to pass vocab quizzes in my HS & uni language classes.
