"לא, הוא לא רואֶה משאית."
Translation:No, he doesn't see a truck.
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I think the thing is if you hover over the word it tells you what every one means so the point isn't to gain real translation comprehension but to grasp all the sounds each letter can make? I'm merely speculating though.
Yes, true. They tried to make simple sentences with each of the alphabet sounds, but a few of the sentences turned out to be a bit hard. Anyway, Duo is a great help.
They allow you to do that at every level, though (at least for that type of question, and assuming that you're not taking a fast-forward test).
You have to click the hebrew word and it should show you some various translations
Yes, the point is to teach you the letters but I agree that the word "lorry" or "truck" and the structure is very hard to grasp. I did learn the alphabet before so the letters part is not as tough for me, but I'm having a hard time with some of the vocabulary.
No matter how many times I listen, I can't hear the ר. It's very indistinct.
The sound made by ר is very guttural or back of the throat gargling sound.
I felt the sentence was read too quickly. Is there a way to slow it down?
A pronouciation of each word , slowly would be good and help me a lot
Hi! Sorry for the off-topic, but will there be a page in Tips Notes explaining cursive Hebrew letters or will we have to look it up on Wikipedia? :)
Because these block letters are not usually used when writing with hand.
The speaker talks so fast I missed a word. I think that at this level of comprehension the speaker needs to go slower and enunciate.
I agree. They should be sure to speak slowly at the earlier levels, and then speak at a more normal speed at higher levels.
This is actually a more broadly occurring issue. I am unable to get a slowed down pronunciation when I click the turtle. It would help me tremendously to be able to hear the sentence slower. Thank you.
For me grammar of this sentence wasn't that hard, but parsing it when it's pronounced is still a bit of a tall order.
Funny. I used to complain about Hebrew not showing the vowels. Now l complain when they make me write them. :D
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That was impossible to understand, I know the word for truck but I couldn't make out the word before that, the word for 'see' because I don't feel it was said clearly enough, he was speaking so fast!
I put this as my answer. לא, הוא לא רואה משאית It looks the same as the given answer, except I haven't put the vowel underneath the aleph. I'm not sure we can do this.. and we haven't been expected to do this so far! Anyway, it has been marked as "not quite right". Are we supposed to include the vowels in our answers, and if so how do we do it?? Thanx.
No, you're not supposed to include vowel-signs. This is a known DL bug, we're waiting for it to be fixed.
I had to listen to this 6 times before I could make out what he was saying. The fact that the Hebrew R does not sound like an English R makes it extra difficult. And the sentence is spoken very quickly relative to what level I'm at. On the other hand, I did guess it right after listening carefully over and over.
ro'eh for a male who is seeing; ro'ah for a female who is seeing. Keep in mind that the 'r' is pronounced more towards the back of the mouth/throat than in English.
I accidentally wrote “se” instead of “see” and it marked it as wrong. -_- The typo detection system could be better.
Well, sometimes sounds in languages become silent, like in English Knife or kniGHt. Same with א, which is nowadays silent or pronounced inconsistently. Its sound is like the English Glottal Stop, examples of which word internally and final you can hear here. So originally לֹא sounded in the same way different from לוֹ is in the video lay from late.
Is there a rule for when א is written in the word. In משאית I hear the "a" sound occur twice but is only written once after ש
No, unlike Yiddish spelling, the letter א does not represent the sound [a]. It is written in מַשָּׂאִית, because this word is formed from the verb נָשָׂא carry, where א is one of the root consonants (historically a glottal stop, here seperating the hiatus in [masa'ít].