להקשיב למוזיקה
“להקשיב למוזיקה” (лехакшив ле-музика) — to listen to music in Hebrew. Phrase, level A1. Lishmoa — to hear by accident; lehakshiv — to listen on purpose, in the headphones. The music you know; one listens to it with the preposition le-. In a live sentence: “אני מקשיב למוזיקה באוזניות.” — I listen to music in the headphones. Written with the characters ל, ה, ק, ש, י, ב, ל, מ, ו, ז, י, ק… A word from the everyday Hebrew course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Hebrew | להקשיב למוזיקה |
| Read in Latin letters | лехакшив ле-музика |
| Translation | to listen to music |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Lishmoa — to hear by accident; lehakshiv — to listen on purpose, in the headphones. The music you know; one listens to it with the preposition le-
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- אני מקשיב למוזיקה באוזניות.ани макшив ле-музика бе-ознайот.I listen to music in the headphones.
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to listen to music” in Hebrew?
«להקשיב למוזיקה», read “лехакшив ле-музика”. In a live sentence: “אני מקשיב למוזיקה באוזניות.” — I listen to music in the headphones. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters ל, ה, ק, ש, י, ב, ל, מ, ו, ז, י, ק…
How is “להקשיב למוזיקה” written in Latin letters?
лехакшив ле-музика. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Lishmoa — to hear by accident; lehakshiv — to listen on purpose, in the headphones. The music you know; one listens to it with the preposition le-. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.