לפעמים קשה לשכנע אנשים לנסות משהו חדש, במיוחד כשהם מתעקשים לעשות הכול בדרך שלהם.

Yes. לפעמים קשה literally means sometimes [it is] difficult.

Hebrew often leaves out the equivalent of English it is in sentences like this. So:

• לפעמים קשה = Sometimes it’s hard
• קשה להבין = It’s hard to understand
• קל לראות = It’s easy to see

So in this sentence, קשה is functioning like hard/difficult, even though there is no separate word for it is.

Because both are infinitives.

In Hebrew, the infinitive usually begins with ל־, often corresponding to English to:

• לשכנע = to convince
• לנסות = to try
• לעשות = to do / to make

So:

• קשה לשכנע אנשים = It’s hard to convince people
• לנסות משהו חדש = to try something new

A useful way to see the structure is:

• קשה = hard
• לשכנע אנשים = to convince people
• לנסות משהו חדש = to try something new

Because אנשים is the object of לשכנע.

The phrase works like this:

• לשכנע אנשים = to convince people
• לנסות משהו חדש = to try something new

So the full idea is:

It is hard to convince people to try something new.

In English, the same thing happens:

• to convince people
• to try something new

The people are the ones being convinced, and they are also understood as the ones who will try the new thing.

Usually, yes. לשכנע means to convince or to persuade, depending on context.

Examples:

• שכנעתי אותו = I convinced him
• קשה לשכנע אנשים = It’s hard to convince people

It often takes:

1. a person being convinced, and
2. sometimes an action that person is being convinced to do.

So here:

• לשכנע אנשים = convince people
• לנסות משהו חדש = to try something new

Together: to convince people to try something new.

משהו means something, and חדש means new.

So:

• משהו חדש = something new

This is a very common Hebrew pattern: the adjective comes after the noun or pronoun-like word.

Compare:

• ספר חדש = a new book
• רעיון טוב = a good idea
• משהו מעניין = something interesting

Also, משהו behaves grammatically like a masculine singular word, so the adjective is masculine singular too:

• משהו חדש
• not משהו חדשה

במיוחד means especially.

It introduces a stronger or more specific case:

• לפעמים קשה לשכנע אנשים לנסות משהו חדש = Sometimes it’s hard to convince people to try something new
• במיוחד כשהם מתעקשים... = especially when they insist...

So במיוחד is adding emphasis: it’s hard in general, but even more so in this particular situation.

It is written as one word here, but it comes from two parts:

• כש־ = when / as
• הם = they

So:

• כשהם = when they

This is very common in Hebrew. You will often see כש־ attached directly to the following word:

• כשאני = when I
• כשהוא = when he
• כשהם = when they

In this sentence:

• במיוחד כשהם מתעקשים... = especially when they insist...

מתעקשים means insist or are insisting.

It is the present-tense masculine plural form of the verb להתעקש = to insist.

Forms of the present tense look like this:

• מתעקש = he insists / insisting
• מתעקשת = she insists / insisting
• מתעקשים = they (masculine or mixed group) insist / insisting
• מתעקשות = they (feminine) insist / insisting

Because אנשים is masculine plural in grammar, the sentence uses:

• כשהם מתעקשים = when they insist

Also, Hebrew present tense can often translate as either simple present or present progressive in English, depending on context.

Because אנשים is grammatically masculine plural, and Hebrew needs agreement.

So later references to people in the sentence are:

• הם = they
• שלהם = their

Even if אנשים refers to people in general, masculine plural is the default form in Hebrew for:

• mixed groups,
• unspecified groups,
• general statements.

So:

• אנשים ... כשהם מתעקשים ... בדרך שלהם is the natural Hebrew way to say
• people ... when they insist ... in their way

Literally, it means:

• לעשות = to do
• הכול = everything
• בדרך שלהם = in their way

So the whole phrase is:

• לעשות הכול בדרך שלהם = to do everything their way

In more natural English, that often becomes:

• to do everything their own way

The idea is not just physical way/path, but method or manner.

דרך can mean way, method, or manner.

So:

• דרך = way / method
• בדרך = in a way / by a method
• בדרך שלהם = in their way / by their method

In context, it means their own way of doing things.

The preposition ב־ often means in, by, or through, depending on context. Here it is part of the idiomatic expression:

• לעשות משהו בדרך מסוימת = to do something in a certain way
• לעשות הכול בדרך שלהם = to do everything their way

Because דרך here is being linked to they / them, and the intended meaning is their way.

Hebrew possessive forms include:

• שלי = my
• שלך = your
• שלו = his
• שלה = her
• שלנו = our
• שלהם = their (masculine/mixed)
• שלהן = their (feminine)

Since אנשים is grammatically masculine plural/general plural, Hebrew uses:

• שלהם = their

So:

• בדרך שלהם = in their way / their own way

Yes. They mean the same thing: everything.

You may see both spellings:

• הכול
• הכל

The version with ו often reflects the pronunciation more clearly in modern Hebrew. In everyday usage, both are common and understood.

So here:

• לעשות הכול = to do everything

Yes, and that is a very good way to learn it.

Here are the chunks:

• לפעמים = sometimes
• קשה = it’s hard
• לשכנע אנשים = to convince people
• לנסות משהו חדש = to try something new
• במיוחד = especially
• כשהם מתעקשים = when they insist
• לעשות הכול בדרך שלהם = on doing everything their way / to do everything their way

So the sentence structure is:

לפעמים קשה
לשכנע אנשים
לנסות משהו חדש,
במיוחד כשהם מתעקשים
לעשות הכול בדרך שלהם.

Breaking Hebrew into chunks like this often makes long sentences much easier to understand.