"בוקר טוב, אני מדבר עברית!"
Translation:Good morning, I speak Hebrew!
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This is a good sentence to suddenly tell your family after you wake up tomorrow.
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So how do you tell whether it's a guy or girl by the context. If you don't know, both answers should be accepted.
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The verb form here, מדבר , is masculine singular, so even though אני isn't differentiated by gender, you can tell in this sentence.
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Good to see some optimism from the mod team! All of the other courses teach you stuff like "I cannot speak x".
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Now, in my place, is morning, so:
"בוקר טוב, אני מדבר עברית!"
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Maybe it's the way my browser displays the text but the order is messed up. Left to right is "I ,good morning "blank" ! Hebrew. First I have to figure out what the sentence is, then pick the right word. Is that intentional?
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In English, we typically use English names for languages instead of the endonym for that language, for example, German, not Deutsch. My guess is the reason for this is imperialist history of the English language. Still, outside of say, a Jewish summer camp, this would be weird.
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I agree with Jay. Among the Jewish communities this would be perfectly fine and depending on which particular culture, you can say things referencing said language in the language it is in. For example, around many Yiddish speakers you can say "ayo, redst du azoy mama loshn?" (Is that so, do you indeed speak the mother tongue?) and you will be understood perfectly. Around jews who don't speak Yiddish or even gentiles, you will not be understood as much or even whatsoever. The same goes with Ladino references to Ashkenazim and so forth. "Podesh avlar en espanyol, te rogo? Moro en turkiye i aunke pudo avlar en turkez, siyento mas komfortable avlando en mi yakishikli lengua, espanyol." (Can you speak Ladino please? I live in Turkey and although I can speak Turkish, I feel more comfortable speaking in my beautiful language, Ladino).
//Note: I made the Ladino sentence so long for two reasons: to show how Ladino looks and also to highlight the differences between Ladino and Spanish that CAN exist in many situations//
For Ashkenazim who speak Spanish (such as those in Mexico and Peru), they will think at first that they're talking about SPANISH because espanyol has a double-meaning in certain contexts. With this being said, the sefardim know based on the context that espanyol actually means ladino, or judeo-spanish.
In all of the particular sub-cultures of Judaism, this is present; it doesn't matter if we want to talk about Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, or even Judeo-Malayalam, no matter what there will always be this sort of understanding among jews of said sub-culture, and even sometimes among between sub-cultures.
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Nope, 'fraid not. They're looking for what the translation is in English, not what the transliteration might be.
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It's just an R pronounced at the back of the throat. And, as I have recently found out, some Israelis drop the R. Like Brits.
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You wake up and realise that, by some magic, you acquired the ability to speak fluent Hebrew. So you say, בוקר טוב אני מדבר עברית