Hello friends,

As you are part of our communitie here i tought why not teach you guys some hebrew , and the history so here it is:

Hebrew ( ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world. In Israel, it is the de facto language of the state . it is spoken by the majority of the population.

The term "Hebrew", or its cognates, was also used (in ancient times) to designate the Aramaic spoken by the Hebrews.

The core of the " Tanakh " (the Hebrew Bible) is written in Classical Hebrew, and much of its present form is specifically the dialect of Biblical Hebrew that scholars believe flourished around the 6th century BCE, around the time of the Babylonian exile. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as Leshon Ha-Kodesh "The Holy Language", since ancient times.
Classical Hebrew
In its widest sense, Classical Hebrew means the spoken language of ancient Israel flourishing between the 10th century BC and the turn of the 4th century AD.[4] It comprises several evolving and overlapping dialects. The phases of Classical Hebrew are often named after important literary works associated with them.

Biblical Hebrew
around the 6th century BC, corresponding to the Babylonian Exile and represented by the bulk of the Hebrew Bible that attains much of its present form around this time. Also called Classical Biblical Hebrew (or Classical Hebrew in the narrowest sense).
Late Biblical Hebrew
from the 6th to the 4th century BC, that corresponds to the Persian Period and is represented by certain texts in the Hebrew Bible, notably the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Basically similar to Classical Biblical Hebrew, apart from a few foreign words adopted for mainly governmental terms, and some syntactical innovations such as the use of the particle shel (of, belonging to). It adopted the Imperial Aramaic script.

Development
In the Modern Period, from the 19th century onward, the literary Hebrew tradition as pronounced in Jerusalem revived as the spoken language of modern Israel, called variously Israeli Hebrew, Modern Israeli Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, New Hebrew, Israeli Standard Hebrew, Standard Hebrew, and so on. Israeli Hebrew exhibits many features of Sephardic Hebrew from its local Jerusalemite tradition but adapts it with numerous neologisms, borrowed terms (often technical) from European languages and adopted terms (often colloquial) from Arabic.

The revival of the Hebrew language as a mother tongue was initiated by the efforts of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922)
He joined the Jewish national movement and in 1881 immigrated to Palestine, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Motivated by the surrounding ideals of renovation and rejection of the diaspora "shtetl" lifestyle, Ben-Yehuda set out to develop tools for making the literary and liturgical language into everyday spoken language.

However, his brand of Hebrew followed norms that had been replaced in Eastern Europe by different grammar and style, in the writings of people like Achad Ha-Am and others. His organizational efforts and involvement with the establishment of schools and the writing of textbooks pushed the vernacularization activity into a gradually accepted movement. It was not, however, until the 1904-1914 "second aliyah" that Hebrew had caught real momentum in Ottoman Palestine with the more highly organized enterprises set forth by the new group of immigrants. When the British Mandate of Palestine recognized Hebrew as one of the country's three official languages (English, Arabic, and Hebrew, in 1922), its new formal status contributed to its diffusion. A constructed modern language with a truly Semitic vocabulary and written appearance, although often European in phonology, was to take its place among the current languages of the nations.

so far for history ,
and now some words :

Hello - Shalom
morning - Boker
night - layla
thanks - toda
thanks alot - toda raba
rain- geshem
sun- shemesh
spring- Aviv
summer - kayets
winter - horef
fall- stav
hot- ham
cold- kar
dog- kelev
cat- hatol
bird - tzipor
water - mayam
left - smol
right - yamin
middel - emtza
team - kvotza
player - sahkan
coach - meaamen
pitch - migrash
ball- kador
football - kadoregel
basketball - kadorsal
goal - gol
game\match - mishak
secoend - shniya
minute - daka
hour - shaaa
attack - hatkafa
defence - hagana
goalkeeper - shoer
defender - balam
striker - halotz
winger - kitzoni
win - nitzhaon
lose - hefsed
fan- ohed
fans - ohadim
park - park
book - sefer
newspaper - eton
boy - ben
girl - bat
mother - ema
father - aba
good\well - tov
excellent - mezoyan
goodluck - behazlaha

well , if you have other words\frazes you want to ask , we will be happy to help
behazlaha

thanks to our comrade friend that made the hebrew words. thanks for interesting information

Shalom!

Toda raba! I will try to learn some of this before i ll come to tel aviv next year!

i would like to know, how do you say "son of a bitch" in german? in hebrew it's ben zona

"Hurensohn". GarZen gave me ben zona as mothe.r.f.ucker, this would be "Mutterficker" in German.

Very interessant topic

you welcome guys
i might update it soon

Sneed Liege - welcome friend

Thanx bro

SHAAALOM SHAAAALOM SHAAAALOM!!!

ma kora ahi?

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thank you garzen for the basic words!
are the words pronounced, like it would be pronounced on english?

the words written as the way they should sound in hebrew
so if you will say:

TODA - this is the hebrew word for thanks

and what about SHRMUTA MACCABI??
that means maccabi ate sluts

thanks for the explanation or TODA

you welcome
or
Bevakasha

Can I ask the hebrew-speaking people here a question?

How are words for modern things "created", if we say so?

I have learned that in modern hebrew, they have taken every word from the bible and then "made up" words that describe modern things.
My favourite words that sound obviously created are "glida" (ice cream), "dikduk" (grammar), "naknik" (spread) and "pitput" (gossip).

to tell you the truth, we dont really know
its just like it is and you know, we dont learn here the "old Heb", just the 'new one'. sorry that i cant really help ya.

Officialy all words are conjured by The Academy of the Hebrew Language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Academ ... w_Language

Of course there are many slang words, words that simply catch on because they sound good etc. But officialiy this is the body that "creates" new words, and they still play a major role in that

how knew that? good to know

First off, naknik means salami, but you were close
About your question, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda took it upon himself to revive the hebrew language created many new words, influenced by existing words in other languages.
Ben-Yehuda, created and revived thousands of words throughout his life and is know as the "Reviver of the Hebrew Language".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Ben-Yehuda

Garzen are you happen to be the guy that write the places names on the road signs?
ema sounds more like the name then the hebrew word ima (mother)for example :p

well , it can be ima as well , but if i remember currectly i copy paste the words from anouther website , i believe they tough was on e-ma

its not like that garzen. because you wrote the hebrew words like if it was in some kind of an american english and when you write a foreign lenguage with the latin letters you need to write it in fonetic way, which is the original latin way, the letters A.E.I.O.U are pronounced in that order as it looks:
A - Alfa
E - Eco
I - Israel
O - Oscar
U - Untario

thats why you shold write: ima - mother
hatul - cat
and not like: ema
hatol