I am born in Germany and I understood all the numbers and the intro you said they were all basically German. I think in that way I'm pretty advantaged. On the other hand I am Arab from Morocco so I understand Arabic which is very similar to Hebrew and I understand half of it. And I recently started a Hebrew lesson and now I can read Hebrew but I really struggle in Grammar and Speaking and it's a bit difficuilt to read without the Nikkud ( Vowels) but YIDDISH💪 Is much more easier and is summarizing MY Identity in one language😂❤ Mohammed from Frankfurt, Germany🇩🇪 and Casablanca, Morocco🇲🇦
@celiabrauer28
5 жыл бұрын
Hey - you didn't add the main one I would have said. Because Yiddish was spoken by my ancestors. It's my mame loshn because my parents both spoke it and their parents and family spoke it - a long way back. Therefore it is my traditional heritage and culture. Language holds the key to connecting with and understanding your own ancestors. Our people. The Ashkenazi Jews. We can honour those who perished by learning Yiddish and reading what they wrote. By understanding what they would have found important. Because it belongs to us. And we could revitalize it to connect to our very real past. And present . And make it travel to the future.
@mattgunia942
6 жыл бұрын
This series is great, especially when you give nine reasons to learn a small language. It gives overlooked languages and cultures a chance to shine a bit.
@michakirschniok6816
6 жыл бұрын
How surprising! Yesterday, I decided to learn at least some basics of Yiddish. And today - voila! New video with "9 reasons to learn". Thank you :)
@ctzippifuchs9161
4 жыл бұрын
Yiddish is my first language so I speak it quite fluently. I don't speak yiddish in the same accent as you did in your video. Modern day (Hasidic) yiddish has an entirely different accent than German and is very distinguishable. Also even tho I speak near perfect yiddish, I can't follow a conversation in German. געניג גערעדט. שכח פארן ווידעא 😆🙃
@elishevabarenbaum5319
4 жыл бұрын
As a heritage language, to give respect to all the Jews murdered in the Holocaust, to be able to eavesdrop on conversations around me, to enjoy Yiddish literature and music and all the fun expressions and, curses. I just learnt a bisl mit a bisl macht a fuln shisl. Thanks Lindsay!
@coolbrotherf127
6 жыл бұрын
I'm not fluent in German, but using what I do know I can understand a lot of Yiddish. It sounds so much like German that someone who didn't know either would think they were the same language just by listening to them.
@avremke24
5 жыл бұрын
What a great video for beginners :) remember that imperatives for more than one person end in t. Zayt gezunt - zay gezunt for one person! In my polish Yiddish we’d say zaats gesint for many people and zaa gezint for one person :)
@Andy-dh9tq
6 жыл бұрын
Next do 9 reasons to learn Afrikaans
@highchamp1
6 жыл бұрын
Learning German I noticed straight away many words that Yiddish uses. My first exposure of Yiddish was TV (Laverne & Shirley) and MAD Magazine.
@taroshrimp6631
6 жыл бұрын
Lol I'm german Time to learn my fifth language
@omiumn.7829
6 жыл бұрын
As a native Yiddish speaker it's interesting watching Charlie Chaplin and others and knowing that we share the same mother tongue.
@mohamadmerhi9277
6 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on greek and russian ? Please, that would be amazing!
@mchobbit2951
6 жыл бұрын
I do speak German and understand a ton of Yiddish, but the writing system makes me shiver. I tried to learn Hebrew once and it wasn't pretty.
@user-em8bq7dh7o
6 жыл бұрын
The Marx Brothers spoke German, specifically, Plattdeutsch. Their parents were both from German-speaking parts of Europe, and they grew up in Yorkville on the upper east side of Manhattan-a German-speaking neighborhood.
@מאמין-ג6נ
5 жыл бұрын
I learn ydiish because I am a Talmud learner and I learn the responsas written by the grand Rabbis like Hatam Sofer or Noda biYehouda and in some of the responsas when they want to allow a Agouna to marry again they write the testimony of somebody who saw the man dead and the testimony is written in Ydish so I wanted to learn a bit .
@martincooper8559
5 жыл бұрын
א גרויסע יישר כוח פאר אייער ארבעט!! יא... איך האב זיך געלערענט יידיש וועגען דיר!!
@kivsa85
6 жыл бұрын
All my life I've been walking around orthodox Jews and just now understood I stupid my country is for not making Yiddish as a must learn language as part of the education system. Damn it
@toxicperson8936
4 жыл бұрын
I’m trilingual, my mother tongue is English as I grew up in & around New York City. However, my family is from Sweden, so I grew up speaking that at home as well. Lastly, I studied French for 6 years in school, & continued studying it after I graduated, to the point where I consider myself fluent, as I have spent a lot of time in both Quebec & France. Also, I’m just starting to learn German, so I know the very basics. I’ve also been working in the restaurant industry for about 7 years now, so I’ve picked up a decent amount of Spanish as well. I tried learning Japanese a few years ago, but took & break & never got back to it, so I know very basic Japanese & some key phrases. Last one, I understand some Czech, as my ex fiancée was from Czech Republic.
@yatamcii
6 жыл бұрын
The numbers sound just like German!
@celescs4598
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video!
@dantedante839
6 жыл бұрын
Just began today.
@ugneugne37
6 жыл бұрын
Please do next 9 reasons to learn lithuanian!!!Because i live there.;)
@batraciocascarudo1086
6 жыл бұрын
Stamford Hill and Golders Green! Cast-Yiddish, Scots-Yiddish! Yinglish!
@abemagic10
5 жыл бұрын
now recognized as an official minority language (?) in Sweden
@adimikimkoydu
6 жыл бұрын
Numbers except for 9 sound almost the same as in German wow :D
@historyarmyproductions
4 жыл бұрын
Ive tryed learning Russian, But now Im gonna try yiddish. Im American but i know some german, The german alphabet, counting, The basics. And Id like to learn Yiddish. (I am also an Atheist, For your information.)
@samk4408
6 жыл бұрын
I often lose confidence in my grasp on the hebrew alphabet until I realize it's just an english word transliterated. The word used in the video is just "Alphabet" :D.
@Floxxoror
4 жыл бұрын
If you speak slowyl I understand Yiddish and also Dutch. Et un peu de francais.
@krisztinabarabas3190
6 жыл бұрын
I love these '9 reasons to learn ...' videos. I'm learning english and indonesian languages. By the way, How is your indonesian language going? I'm from Hungary. Please make a video about hungarian language too. Would be awesome. 😊 Hungarian language is one of the most hardiest language to learn. I've heard that from many people.
@noaccount9985
4 жыл бұрын
Merci. Je suis linguiste. It's a Jewish mother who speaks Hebrew to her son but the boy doesn't stop to reply in Yiddish . A man asked then the woman why she speaks Hebrew to his son as he doesn't speak Hebrew . The woman said to the man : '' Sorry, it was just so my son doesn't forget he's Jewish''
@gabehessenthaler6820
6 жыл бұрын
A sheynem dank far di video.
@dovytany8807
4 жыл бұрын
Yiddish is my first languish thanks for the video by the way when someone speaks German I don't understand it
@MyItalianCircle
4 жыл бұрын
Cool video, I really like your style!
@jinengi
6 жыл бұрын
I didn't know about yiddish... btw, could you pls do a 9 reasons for learning catalan, occitan or aragonese (this last one is really endangered)?
@ikhlernzikhyiddish
6 жыл бұрын
Cool video! :)
@luchadorito
6 жыл бұрын
(Not really) fun fact: In Hungarian, most modern slang and conlang that isnt based off of English is based of the most common romani dialect. Old conlang and slang however is mostly yiddish. Words like frájer(pronounced as fryer, meaning loser or dumbass) or córesz(tzores, meaning trouble or suffering) were mostly used on the turn of the century.
@VanlifewithAlan
6 жыл бұрын
I can speak it a bit.
@skipfuego6339
6 жыл бұрын
Yiddish and German share the same High Germanic branch but German still has a richer grammar than Yiddish.
@merlynhirtentreu3633
6 жыл бұрын
Lindsay Williams what country you are?
@nehirakinn
6 жыл бұрын
Please make a video about 9 reasons to learn Turkish!
@coravandijk9088
6 жыл бұрын
I am from Holland and in the Dutch language we still use more than 100 Jiddisch words, like bajes for jail or tochus for but. We love the language, but since wwII the langauge is gone with the many, many victims........ Alas.
@cloakedsniper5016
5 жыл бұрын
ווער פארשטייט וואס איך האב דא געשריבן?
@cubaball2075
6 жыл бұрын
ניין ניין ניין ניין ניין
@unda25
6 жыл бұрын
romanian?
@KS-fq2ef
6 жыл бұрын
Do Russian or Ukrainian
@Madslav398
6 жыл бұрын
It’s scary how similar it is to German
@athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389
6 жыл бұрын
it's just a German accent written in Hebrew letter, and when a Luxembourger tells you he speaks Luxembourgish tell him No you just speak a form of twisted german language just like Yiddish and lower German in areas like schleswig holstein
@mep6302
6 жыл бұрын
Why do people say Yiddish is a german dialect? That's what I've heard
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