Tsiporah: |
Pardon me, are you willing to help me? I'm looking for a cafe by the name of cafe Java. |
Dorit: |
Sure. I'm going to "Java" too. Come with me. You're an American, right? |
Tsiporah: |
Right. I was born and grew up in Minnesota |
Dorit: |
Ah! I visited there. You have lots of lakes, if I"m not mistaken. |
Tsiporah: |
You're not mistaken. We have thousands. By the way, my name is Maggie, but I also have a Hebrew name, Tsipora. |
Dorit: |
My name is Dorit. I'm a Tel Avivian. Here, we've arrived. Maybe we can (will) eat and drink something together? |
Tsiporah: |
Gladly. I didn't make arrangements to meet anybody. |
Dorit: |
Great! Well, tell me about yourself. |
Tsiporah: |
OK, as I said, I was born in the United States. My parents were born there too. I'm married and the mother of two sons. |
Dorit: |
I'm divorced. But I also have two children. My daughter is in the army and my (the) son is in high school. I work at the university. I'm a biologist. |
Tsiporah: |
I work in public relations. How do you say that in Hebrew |
Dorit: |
You're a PR person. Probably interesting work. Aside from work, what do you do? Do you have hobbies? |
Tsiporah: |
And how! For example, I love to work in the garden.
TZIPORAH'S HOBBIES |
Tsiporah: |
Here are a few pictures. Take a look, please |
Dorit: |
What a beauty of a lake. You can (it's possible)swim and fish, right? |
Tsiporah |
Of course (clearly). We all love to swim. It's fun! |
Dorit: |
If we were to have even ten lakes like this in Israel! |
Tsiporah: |
But you have the Mediterranean Sea. And the boardwalk! I'm crazy about your boardwalk. |
Dorit: |
You're right! One shouldn't (it's forbidden to) complain too much. |
הֶעָרָה
What is the word אֶת ?
See 2.15 for an explanation of ה "the"
When the word that the ה is attached to is a direct object, then אֶת comes before the word.(We often use violet or another color for things you haven't learned yet.)