"אני קורא עיתון."

Translation: I read a newspaper.

[Hrafnunga]

Slow audio would be really useful here.

[richardbel14]

Shouldn't it translate into English as: "I am reading a newspaper"? The verb קורא is in the present tense.

[benton.1]

It can be both "I read" or "I am reading".

[Patrick_Deaver]

I was wondering the same thing.

[jokai00]

It's I read a newspaper with read read as "reed"

[BransonSha]

Just wondering, is there a connection is קורה and the word "Koran" in Arabic?

[Hrafnunga]

Yes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Qur%27an#Etymology

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A3#Arabic

[rich739183]

I think both of you meant the Hebrew word used in this exercise, which is קורא (not קורה).

[josedopatrocinio]

Thanks

[derPolyglott98]

אני לומד עברית ומדבר יידיש, כל כך מתי אני קורא ’עיתון’, אני גם חשוב על ’צייטוג' בידייש.

[rich739183]

צייַטונג

[dieprinzessin]

Is it ' itoAn' or rather 'iton' ?

[BezalelP]

iton, pronounced ee-ton

[dieprinzessin]

תודה

[Theresa754142]

Ani qore iton.

[israellai]

does the ע not amount to a glottal stop?

[Hrafnunga]

It really varies in spoken Hebrew, but the textbooks I've seen say that the Sephardic Ayin and Aleph are both simply silent characters, though the Ayin is thought to have originally been either a glottal stop or a voiced uvular fricative /ʁ/. There have been many changes over the centuries and different dialects treat it differently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayin#Phonetic_representation

[josedopatrocinio]

Thanks