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Jul25 0

Visiting a cafe in Israel – the essential vocabulary

Posted by Jo in Blog

I spend hours and hours in cafés every week. In the summer they are refuge of air conditioning and icy-cold drinks like cold coffee, tea and lemonade. In the winter they are cosy and warm with your perfect hot drink and dessert. In Tel Aviv, 99.9% of café staff speak excellent English, so you don’t HAVE to speak Hebrew there. But it also happens that cafés are one of the best places to practice speaking Hebrew, and is a satisfying place to do so when you are rewarded with refreshing drinks...

Apr25 0

What to expect at an Israeli butcher

Posted by Jo in Blog

Coming from Australia, I’m used to buying raw meat packed in trays at the supermarket, lined up and ready to be picked up. They have labels specifying the quantity and how much they cost, and the whole process is very simple – decide what you want, pick it up and put it in the basket. Of course it is done differently in Israel, like many, many other things! In Israel you need to go to the butchers to buy meat, or the butchers counter in the supermarket, and actually talk! In...

Apr04 0

Where can I buy Stick Around?

Posted by Jo in Blog, where to buy

Stick Around is available in loads of places now! Here is a list of stores that stock Stick Around: Tel Aviv Bauhaus Center, 99 Dizengoff St, Tel Aviv & Kedumim Square, Jaffa made in TLV, Hatachana – the new station compound, Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Museum, 27 Shaul Hamelech Blvd, Tel Aviv Maasiya, 3 Rabbi Yochnan, The Flea Market, Jaffa Sfarim beBasel (Books at Basel), 30 Basel St, Tel Aviv Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv University campus, Ramat...

Mar15 0

Want to go to the market | shuk | שוק? Learn the essential vocabulary!

Posted by Jo in Blog

Mar04 0

Learning Hebrew is hard, but…Stick Around!

Posted by Jo in Blog

I wrote a guest post for the website IGoogledIsrael about the trials and tribulations of learning Hebrew. Here is an excerpt: Learning Hebrew is hard, particularly if you are an English speaker living in Tel Aviv. The problem is that you can live completely in English in this city if you want to. Most of your friends will be English speakers. They may be Israeli, French, American, English or Scandinavian, but chances are you will have a lot of friends that speak English fluently…. My...

Feb23 0