"אני לא נוגע בכסף סמים מלוכלך."

Translation: I do not touch dirty drug money.

[John00625]

Duo bird doesn't want to go back to jail!

[Janis559500]

So you mean he doesn't want to be a jailbird.

[dovbear57]

?אז יש כסף סמים נקי?

[TeribleT]

That's why there's money laundering! (Yes this was sarcasm).

[millinmay]

after tax, presumably

[Carissa789117]

After it has been laundered.

[TeribleT]

Ani lo nogea be'kesef¹ samim meluchlach.

¹ from Glinnert's Modern Hebrew: Essential Grammar: "The Hebrew of broadcasters, teachers and their ilk make certain complicated adjustments in pronouncing words beginning with a prefixed וְ , בַּ , כַּ , לַ.
Colloquial Hebrew generally doesn't bother." (I think this is begedkephat, but maybe someone can explain/confirm/deny why he prounced kaf as chaf).

[AdamOlean]

Shalom TeribleT,

In short and as I recall learning from Randall Buth's notes in his Living Biblical Hebrew curriculum, the בְּ (written with a shva na' under it) preceding the כ is pronounced more-or-less with a (half-)vowel. Because the כ is a begedkefet consonant (just you already observed), it is pronounced as a fricative rather than a stop.

If you respond to this reply, I can try to dig up a relevant quote with just a little more info later.

[DaveB363810]

Dirty drug money is the proper way to say it in English

[mtuJ4U]

Important to know this in israel?

[mtuJ4U]

Essential sentence to learn before going to israel;(

[LanguageLizzard1]

This site is for kids no?