i am a native yiddish speaker and its really nice to see people actually still care about the language
@lucisleesion8824
5 жыл бұрын
I would like to learn Yiddish as a Chinese 🎈
@maricelaromero8838
5 жыл бұрын
I love Hebrew and yiddish ♡♡
@offrampt
5 жыл бұрын
In which areas of the world do young people have Yiddish as a native language?
@JR-ck4fq
5 жыл бұрын
@@offrampt New York, Manchester, Antwerp etc... anywhere there's a sizeable Hassidic or Orthodox community
@EzraB123
5 жыл бұрын
@@offrampt there are also Yiddish speaking communities all over Israel (Jerusalem, Bnei Brak), also in Ukraine, Sweden and Quebec. It's very rare to find young, secular Jews who know Yiddish. They probably only live in Ukraine and Russia.
@geckofan77
8 жыл бұрын
omg i'm german and i understand a lot! this is so cool
@fele4413
8 жыл бұрын
im israeli and i dont understand 1 word ); this is so sad
@XPimKossibleX
8 жыл бұрын
+zISRAELz bederechclal
@XPimKossibleX
8 жыл бұрын
+michael benzur at the start
@TheReaverOfDarkness
8 жыл бұрын
Yiddish probably carries more German words than Hebrew words. The Yiddish-speaking people originally lived in or near Germany, at least up until the Holocaust.
@attk177
8 жыл бұрын
yes yiddish is way closer to german than to hebrew. it uses a lot of hebrew words because german uses a lot of hebrew words... really, tons and tons of them. if you read german, you could probably identify some words because they seem familiar
@zofilep3612
9 жыл бұрын
I speak German and I half-understand it, it's amazing! I'd love to learn it one day
@toneub
8 жыл бұрын
+Faey Lep geht mir auch so...
@ProudMasterMason
6 жыл бұрын
Half way there
@Wuei108
4 жыл бұрын
LP von Zupfgeigenhansel - Yiddische Lieder - sehr schöne musik mit soft Yiddisch.
@patrickweiler3fc09
4 жыл бұрын
As a german speaker, I'd love to learn it in one day
@bar2062
3 жыл бұрын
Same
@jochannan7379
2 жыл бұрын
A mere 80 years ago, it was the daily vernacular of 12 million people between Vilnius and Odessa. Not just Hasidim. Literature, theatre, journals, newspapers, all in Yiddish. A rich and vibrant culture. All lost forever.
@PabluchoViision
9 жыл бұрын
An old joke: A Jewish man traveling on business from NY goes to eat at a delicatessen in Philadelphia. It's great, the food, the service: the waiter is Chinese, yet he speaks perfect Yiddish, takes the man's order, brings him his food, everything in beautiful Yiddish. At the end of the meal the man goes to pay the check, compliments the owner on the restaurant, and says, "And the waiter? Where did he learn to speak such wonderful Yiddish." The owner gestures with forefinger to lips: "Shhh... not so loud... He thinks we're teaching him English."
@attk177
8 жыл бұрын
the kind of joke your grandpa tells you and you fake laugh out of pity
@Cristiolus
7 жыл бұрын
Alte meisse
@fredrikrugby
6 жыл бұрын
yener khinezisher man hot a mazl! Ikh ken nish keyn yidish.
@Zack-xz1ph
6 жыл бұрын
the chinese waiter doesn't want to learn English? and he lives in NY? I don't get the joke
@wandererinthedust276
6 жыл бұрын
The Chinese waiter WANTS to learn English. But his teachers are the restaurant owners. They are instead teaching him Yiddish to help with their business. :)
@ForeverRepublic
10 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a perfect hybrid between Hebrew and German. I speak Hebrew, would love to learn Yiddish. It is so sad such a beautiful language is no longer widely spoken.
@crimeandpunishment1130
7 жыл бұрын
ForeverRepublic I agree. Zionists tried to eliminate that language due to the Holocaust ( as we know.... there is a similarity between German language and Yiddish. And Survivors might have wanted to remove any kind of things are related to German culture at the time. ) It is the first time for me to listen to Yiddish. It sounds very beautiful to me.
@ytyt3922
6 жыл бұрын
It’s not a hybrid at all. It is German. It contains Hebrew and Polish/Lithuanian loan words but it is essentially German.
@hudey1807
5 жыл бұрын
@@crimeandpunishment1130 No its because Hebrew is much more important then Yiddish
@sgtgiggles
5 жыл бұрын
In New York it’s alive and well. You’ll actually hear some of the Hasidic and orthodoxy talk with a thick German like accent. Here’s the kicker, they were born here in the states
@eliyahushvartz2167
4 жыл бұрын
Irmi Schopf Its not the heartbeat of judaism, it may be a lifeblood of Ashkenazi Judaism, but not the whole.
@alexaquino1663
9 жыл бұрын
I am not Jewish and didn't even knew Yiddish was a language until I came to N.Y. I love the way it sounds especially when spoken by old, European Jews. I love their mannerisms, the way they use their hands and facial expressions. Wish I could speak it.!
@remi7932
5 жыл бұрын
I first heard Yiddish in a W 79th Street bagel place in NYC. I was thrilled to hear it and had a conversation about it (in English) with the group of older people.
@salaama9
3 жыл бұрын
They are still teaching it at the Workers Circle: circle.org/what-we-do/yiddish-language/
@SztypeL
9 жыл бұрын
he speaks a lovely yiddish
@mikestrat56
9 жыл бұрын
It's good to hear what my great grandparents really sounded like.
@blueflameblast
9 жыл бұрын
Mick White same
@mariekatherine5238
2 жыл бұрын
I understand and speak Pennsylvania Dutch, the language of the Old Order Amish. It actually has no Dutch in it. Someone in the US misheard Deitsch and thought it was Dutch. It’s a combination of Low German, Ladino, English, and, in some Amish, the Swiss version of German spoken in the early 1800’s. At any rate, I can understand Yiddish well enough to get the general idea of what’s being said. I’ve studied elementary Hebrew and can read and write the alef-beis, therefore, I’m able to read some Yiddish as well.
@FKLinguista
9 ай бұрын
Actually "Dutch" was just the word at the time that Anglos used to describe anyone from the Germanic-language area. Douglas Madenford explains it very well on his channel where he teaches Pennsylvanisch Deitsch.
@watergoddess9
9 жыл бұрын
I think it's beautiful, people sharing their culture. I don't understand much Yiddish, but I love to hear it. This is what New York is all about :)
@davidweiss9891
4 жыл бұрын
Yiddish is probaly the most expressive language , the words have heart in them
@JaM-rj9os
3 жыл бұрын
R.I.P To the officer, and God bless his family
@wowalamoiz9489
7 ай бұрын
Let me introduce you to Punjabi
@lasbagman1
9 жыл бұрын
I understand Yiddish , My parents and grandparents spoke it , even though they were born in North America. I wish I learned it as kid and am happy to hear younger people speak it .
@tyson1123
9 жыл бұрын
+lasbagman1 very nice
@xHaus0fGagax
8 жыл бұрын
Did they not want to teach it to you? I mean it's great you understand it a bit
@aaabbb6245
7 жыл бұрын
lasbagman1 zeir shein
@Marny5580
9 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh, hearing Yiddish is music to my ears! I hope that this language is kept alive -- it kept a group of people together who might have perished without the commonality of this language. Hebrew as a spoken language was brought back - and should also be learned, especially in order to pray in Hebrew.
@chgee1546
8 жыл бұрын
Come to Williamsburg, Brooklyn you'll hear plenty of it
@DouglasSadownick
10 жыл бұрын
It was so wonderful to see such a young and handsome guy like you talking the mamaloschen!
@EzraB123
6 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was born in Prague in 1930 and still speaks Yiddish. I grew up on the northside of Chicago and you can still hear it spoken in some of the Jewish areas.
@haroldgoodman130
2 жыл бұрын
You can learn Yiddish. Duolingo, Workman's Circle, YIVO and other places offer online instruction. Check it out. It's my favorite language.
@lerajemoon4943
5 жыл бұрын
I first heard Yiddish in the opening scenes of The Cobbler and as a student of German I was amazed at how much I understood. Blew my mind! It's a really cool sounding language and I'd love to learn how to write it.
@MichaelHoare-vr7mo
Жыл бұрын
You write it with Hebrew characters.
@janepiepes2243
5 жыл бұрын
Whoever you are, you speak beautifully and have the accent I remember from my grandparents. It's lovely to hear ..
@helenakirchner6206
3 жыл бұрын
To me, it's the most beautiful language. It sounds so friendly an d makes me feel warm. I speak German and can understand quite a bit.
@axisboss1654
8 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Dutch or German with a Arab Accent
@attk177
8 жыл бұрын
thats actually a allemaniac dialect. listen to swiss german, it will probably sound arab to you too
@يوسفصالح-ز4ث
8 жыл бұрын
Wario Toad 32 that's pretty funny because it's not related to arabic at all, it's a jewish language
@axisboss1654
8 жыл бұрын
يوسف صالح Listing to it more it sounds like German from like 1000 years ago but Yiddish is pretty close to Old or Middle High German.
@SquigPie
7 жыл бұрын
Both are semitic languages, though. So they are related.
@DaytonaMeth7
6 жыл бұрын
Yiddish sounds nothing like Dutch
@xardomakagiftgott483
2 жыл бұрын
Danke für Deine Geschichte. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland.
@YAMAHAPSR800
4 жыл бұрын
As a German native speaker I can understand Yiddish really good, and it sounds very related to the Bavarian dialect I speak.
@fikretpajalic1224
3 жыл бұрын
I speak German and could understand a lot. Yiddish should be preserved at all costs. Amazing cultural heritage!
@kc-wr1ui
4 жыл бұрын
me and my family are yiddish speakers and we get stared at allot but it makes me proud to be hasidic Jew
@snakelemon
4 жыл бұрын
I speak German and up until now I've thought Dutch were the closest language to German. But now I'm convinced it's Yiddish. So much I can understand from it, wow!
@Lagolop
Жыл бұрын
Yiddish is based on Medieval High German (Upper German). It also contains some Aramaic, Hebrew (and later some Slavic words as Jews migrated eastward). There are various regional pronunciations. Here is another example. Blaybn gezunt, un shtark ;) kzitem.info/news/bejne/rG-drWdts354l4Y
@manthasagittarius1
11 жыл бұрын
It is not "a dialect," it is a full independent language. If you had any idea the sheer size of Yiddish dialectology, and how many variants there are from how many locations and time frames, you would understand how little sense referring to it as a dialect makes.
@detlefkar
3 жыл бұрын
There is no clear definition about what makes a languages versus a dialect. The Russian, Jewish, German, American linguist Weinreich said that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
@davidbouvier8895
Жыл бұрын
@@detlefkarPrecisely. The difference is a purely political one. Nobody speaks any language without a dialect. The much vaunted, allegedly 'correct' UK accent known as Received Pronunciation is just another spoken dialect. Just listen to an elderly upper class Brit pronounce 'plastic' as 'plawstic'.
@elfulano5884
Жыл бұрын
So cool! I learned German all through high school and college. I am pleasantly surprised by the amount of words I was able to understand during this interview.
@faroshscale
6 жыл бұрын
I almost wanted to cry listening to this for some reason. Thinking about my Ashkenazi heritage and what my yiddish-speaking ancestors must have sounded like, the same ones who escaped concentration camps, and came here through Ellis Island from Hungary.
@igorjee
4 жыл бұрын
If your ancestors weren't from North-east Hungary or Transylvania most likely they spoke Hungarian or German, not Yiddish.
@LeonTheVeteran
11 жыл бұрын
Yiddish and other Judeo-something languages are so awesome, even here in Greece, my grandmother speaks little Romaniotika(Judeo-Greek) really amazing...
@stevenkabakow1270
4 жыл бұрын
I never heard that term-Romaniotika Judeo-Greek.
@leonstone4738
11 ай бұрын
It is vital that Yiddish be preserved for future generations. It’s a great pity that they don’t learn it in the Jewish Schools in line with Hebrew. Yiddish songs are fantastic to listen to as they often tell a story. Shalom
@isabeau8907
6 жыл бұрын
I speak some German and I can understand a lot of this, it's neat! Especially when my uncle and cousin speak Yiddish I understand them fully and it's C O O L
@attk177
8 жыл бұрын
im german and i can understand some of it, mostly nouns which are exact to german words. but for me this sounds very much like a mix of swiss german (schwizerdütsch) and swabian (schwäbisch). when 2 people have a conversation in these dialects, i understand even less then in yiddish, so that makes sense
@paulhirschman2641
4 жыл бұрын
@Irmi Schopf For those who don't understand.............do you also understand bavarian? the Bavarian dialect contains a lot of Yiddish words!
@patrickweiler3fc09
4 жыл бұрын
Als schwabe kann ich dir sagen dass sich schwäbisch so nicht anhört, schweizer-deutsch wohl eher
@jochannan7379
2 жыл бұрын
@@patrickweiler3fc09 According to Max Weinreich, Yiddish originally emerged in Jewish communities between Trier, Regensburg, Speyer 1000 years ago, so linguistically it is based on a mix of Bairisch, Allemannic and Moselle-Franconian. But, what neither Schwytzerdütsch nor Bavarian have is those many Hebrew and Slavic loanwords and even grammatical influence that Yiddish has. They are woven so deeply into the language and form such and integral aspect of it, that Yiddish is quite different from any of the extant German dialects. Maybe the forms of German spoken by German settlers at the Black Sea, the Volga or in Ukrainian Galicia before the war had a similiarly strong Slavic influence, but I'm not sure about that, as there is very little evidence of those dialects that survived.
@YusifTheBaldEagle
Жыл бұрын
Yiddish is only influenced heavily by MHG. (Middle High German)
@Eric0816
7 жыл бұрын
Native german speaker here. It's funny because I can understand a lot. To my ears that sounds limilar to the way I heard old german people from Silesia or East Prussia speak
@ytyt3922
6 жыл бұрын
Eric0816 Yiddish is simply High German from the Middle Ages, si of course a native German speaker can understand. Except for the Hebrew and Polish loan words.
@yevgenydodzin9849
5 жыл бұрын
You’ve heard Silesian German dialect? Wow I’ve met 1 person in my lifetime who speaks it. Silesian German is basically Yiddish without the Hebrew aspect
@ajhare2
10 жыл бұрын
People saying it sounds like German, well, Yiddish is a descendant of High-German.
@friendlykraut635
10 жыл бұрын
That's true. In Germany there are some places where the dialect sounds like yiddish.
@Seleuce
8 жыл бұрын
+ajhare2 Not of High German (which is modern German) but of Middle High German, an earlier form of German, spoken roughly from 1050AD to 1350AD.
@ajhare2
8 жыл бұрын
Seleuce Thank you correcting my mistake :)
@SiggiNebel
8 жыл бұрын
+Seleuce And also a specific south-western kind of medieval German. To a certain degree, it still resembles some dialects in south-western Germany, for instance by using the suffix -le as diminutive , some irregular verb forms and certain expressions (like "gass" for "street" in general, whereas "Gasse" in modern high German only denotes a narrow street).
@Seleuce
8 жыл бұрын
SiggiNebel Yes, modern Schwäbisch dialect is the German dialect which comes very close to Jiddish. People who speak Schwäbisch usually are able to understand up to 90% of Jiddish without having ever heard it before, with some Hebrew knowledge they will even fully understand. That goes both ways.
@janlivny6196
3 жыл бұрын
This is so wierd for me, both a Hebrew and German speaker. My mind is attempting to constantly interpret as one of the 2 languages
@stevigehuink1774
5 жыл бұрын
As a Dutchie I can understand 80% of spoken German but almost nothing of Yiddish, while Germans can understand a lot of yiddish... The only word I understood was "menschen/mensen" (people)
@zarasbazaar
4 жыл бұрын
I love listening to yiddish. I wish I had learned it when I was a kid.
@marvinisrael1671
Жыл бұрын
It's never too late. I'm 84 and I've been taking Yiddish conversation courses for the last six months.
@rivkyb7840
8 жыл бұрын
He speaks mainly a Galician Yiddish and sprinkles of Lithuanian Yiddish lol
@DCFunBud
8 жыл бұрын
Very interesting.
@Xnoob545
5 жыл бұрын
I'm from Lithuania
@psdumas
4 жыл бұрын
My grandma and grandpa used to fight (in a friendly way) about him being a Galicianer and her a Litvak! :-)
@יעקבבארקר
4 жыл бұрын
@Jimmy Kudo They didn't speak Yiddish in Persia
@estebannemo1957
4 жыл бұрын
Galician? Wow. That has to predate 1492, yes?
@MichaelHoare-vr7mo
Жыл бұрын
Yiddish is about 80 percent medieval German,15 percent Hebrew,3percent Slavonic and 2percent Romance languages.
@soyydiana
7 ай бұрын
Beautifull.
@eliteteamkiller319
Жыл бұрын
I would like to see Yiddish written in the English alphabet in something like this, because then you can see the relationship. You can clearly hear the Germanic influence, of course.
@erinsanidad2218
Жыл бұрын
Something about Yiddish speaks to me. I tacitly understand the whole Germanic vs Slavic but Slavic has always touched my soul almost like a racial memory. TLDR: I like Yiddish
@eurovicious
Жыл бұрын
Which dialect of Yiddish is this?
@indranilbagchi95
4 жыл бұрын
I am learning German and I understand what he's saying (almost).
@davidlukawski2620
3 жыл бұрын
Once my grandmother passed away so did the Yiddish that was spoken in our home I am so sorry to say.
@apfelmus3466
4 жыл бұрын
i´m austrian and i find it very interresting to listen - i too understand more than i thought
@janepiepes2243
5 жыл бұрын
Btw, I hope you make another video and speak on any random subject - in Yiddish. I'd love to find out how many words that I remember. Again, yours is a beautiful accent.
@rachelkrieger243
3 жыл бұрын
eich dank deier asach , eich hob lieb Yiddish,
@rideordie1241
6 жыл бұрын
I'm Dutch and I understand almost everything he is saying.
@BeterGaJe
4 жыл бұрын
Wat lul je nou stommerd, je verstaat hooguit een paar woorden maar voor de rest niks.
@ИгорьМячин-ч6г
9 жыл бұрын
It's just amaizing...it sounds so similar Dutch language.
@ΔοσίθεοςΤρνηνητς
3 жыл бұрын
Kann mir jemand, bitte Beispiele geben, welche Hebräische Wörte es in deutschen gibt? Danke.
@JacobOman-qb1lm
28 күн бұрын
My grandfather and mother speak/spoke this. Wish i could learn
@jacobb1316
4 жыл бұрын
Come to Williamsburg in Brooklyn NYC we would love to talk to you in Yiddish
@ethank.6602
4 жыл бұрын
Looks like a mix of the guy who plays harry potter and the guy who plays loki in the avengers
@carsonpower5948
3 жыл бұрын
i like the way yiddish sounds
@christianpinto5671
7 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful thing. I wish I could speak it but I don't know whether Assimil's course on Yiddish is good enough for teaching myself some of this amazing language.
@moistspaghetto4043
4 жыл бұрын
Assimil's course material for most languages is great! It's been 2 years so I have no idea if you've realized this for yourself in the intervening time, but anyways although it can't replace immersion and you only get what you put in it, by my memory their Yiddish material is pretty good :> You won't pick up dialectal features that way (e.g. many American Chassidish dialects basically ate huge parts of their grammar under the influence of English) and much of the Yiddish you're likely to encounter isn't YIVO, but it's not like it's some impenetrable forest -- you'll adjust c: I think it might be a little bit harder for a non-native but really it's a very little bit, mostly just sounds and vocabulary and some tiny tiny bits of grammar. Best of luck! Or if you've already done some learning then how did it go?
@andrewpill4602
3 жыл бұрын
It amazes me to think that I followed this about 50% from an O level in German from '76......
@maricelaromero8838
5 жыл бұрын
I just started to learn Hebrew 9 months ago and it sounds mixed with German and sort of Hebrew. What sounded a bit like Hebrew to my ears is when he makes the Z sound and the throat sound "Khet". I love Hebrew and yiddish♡♡ שלום!
@MonarchPoolPlaster
6 жыл бұрын
I wonder if I keep speaking Spanglish, maybe it'll turn into it's own language tambien?
@JR-ck4fq
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe it will. Look up Ladino.
@JaM-rj9os
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah Ladino is way more like spanish than german is like yiddish
@Flamms
11 ай бұрын
Speaking German as a 2nd language,I get most of what that dude is saying, it s amazing. It has a Dutch pronounciation, with german words.
@gayleearnhart9113
2 жыл бұрын
I used to write letters to the relatives for my grandparents. One family had the surname of Wexler which BOUBBE and ZADDY always pronounced as Vexler. I thought Vexler was their actual name.
@LesAtlas
3 ай бұрын
I don't speak Yiddish, but I felt like I could almost understand the Yiddish in this video. My mother, born in the US, and my grandparents, born in eastern Europe, spoke Yiddish. My father understood it but didn't speak it. It seemed like they used Yiddish when as their secret language when they didn't want us kids to hear what they were saying. Also certain jokes or concepts were much better expressed in Yiddish. I also remember how, by the time I was a teen, my grandmother once gave me something handwritten in Yiddish to translate into English or Hebrew. I couldn't since I never learned Yiddish. She then asked: "Don't they teach you anything useful in school?" I felt bad since I didn't know it, so I took what I thought was the closest, which was Russian. My grandmother could speak a little Russian with me, but I felt like she was a bit offended to speak it with me. Perhaps she would have preferred that I knew Yiddish. I wish I had learned Yiddish from my family when I was young. I'd like to learn it, and maybe I will.
@PtolemaicTaweret
11 жыл бұрын
It does. I'm swiss so my native language is swiss-german and I said it sounds A BIT like swiss-german, not that it sounds completely like swiss-german.
@jnyc27
3 жыл бұрын
This has been written about in scholarly articles
@samgone3702
9 ай бұрын
I took a few Hebrew lessons with an online tutor. I've watched a documentary or two in modern Hebrew. What has struck about Hebrew is how it seems to sound unlike any other language. It doesn't really sound like Arabic, except for maybe some of the rough kchh sounds in some words. It doesn't sound like German. It doesn't sound like any other language. BUT after watching this video, I am convinced that the phonology of Yiddish came to influence modern Hebrew a lot (either directly or indirectoy). It's interesting because Hebrew is a Semitic language with similarities to Arabic grammar, in the verb roots grammar pattern, for example. Yet, its sound is unique. It's like Yiddish came from German mixed in with some Hebrew vocabulary and then fully evolved into Modern Hebrew with the rise of Herzl's movement in late 19th Century and the resurrection of Hebrew as a spoken language bot confined to liturgical and religious use. But when spoken, the phonology is definitely highly influenced by Yiddish, yet doesn't sound German. Fascinating.
@fainavulf1834
4 жыл бұрын
He has a good Yiddish. 👍
@billyriedel6449
6 жыл бұрын
I would love to learn Yiddish someday
@isa-manuelaalbrecht2951
Жыл бұрын
Thanx for the reminder...😁🥰🤭🤗😏👏👏👏😊
@nicholastaylor2355
3 жыл бұрын
"Yiddish: Phrase Dictionary and Study Guide" published by Language/30 Eductional Services Washington DC 1995, explains the basic grammar of Yiddish. It is easy to understand and use actively. Many phrases for social interaction are included. The international catalogue number is: ISBN 0 910542 90 2.
@anvilbrunner.2013
7 жыл бұрын
Shalom aleykom; Yorkshire Deedaar here. Yiddish blended with Derbyshire Basque and smattered with Dutch/English. I have been studdying Yiddish quite recently, after an interest in my Sephardic herritage. My name is Dannan, but i was not told it untill aged 8. Qt; ''Always remember Son. That You are of the tribe of wandering Jews''. Then we get handed a silver trinket for remembrance. An uncomfortable imposition, for a child who wants to fit in with peers. A child doesnt like to be the odd one out. Now those things dont matter. I tell my children the same. I want to learn.
@ghenulo
7 жыл бұрын
Well, some of us will never fit in with peers. You might as well let your freak flag fly.
@ytyt3922
6 жыл бұрын
Ladino was the language of the Sephardic Jews, not Yiddish.
@ooooo3999
7 жыл бұрын
My great grandparents spoke Yiddish
@ArletteNL
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, can anyone out there help me translate a hand-written Yiddish letter from my grandfather into English? I can help you in exchange with English, French or Dutch!
@imnotsocreative5985
4 жыл бұрын
This is the weirdest sounding language I’ve ever heard. I love it.
@idontevenknow6645
4 жыл бұрын
im hearing german, dutch, arab, brazilian and russian all at the same time. how's this even possible????
@KhZina
3 жыл бұрын
This is Yiddish with Hebrew accent.
@missMagbeth
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, my first time hearing this language. It sounds so much like German!
@sirrykr1679
9 ай бұрын
A strange mixture that sounds like a cross between German and Dutch. I first heard Yiddish in a movie and was amazed to realise that my junior college German allowed me to understand quite á bit of what was said in Yiddish.
@marvinisrael1671
10 ай бұрын
At age 84 I started my journey to learn Yiddish. I had to learn the Aleph-Beys all over again (I knew it as a child) and learn to write Yiddish script. I'm completing my sixth course and am about to register for my seventh course, all taught via Zoom by Workers Circle, YIVO, and CFY. I also do one Duolingo lesson a day and have a 497 day streak. My grandparents and my mother spoke Yiddish, but I was sent to Hebrew school instead of Yiddish shule because my mother thought that the shule was Communist. It was, but so what? Now, to converse with someone in the kind of Yiddish I like to hear (not the Satmar variety), I'd have to visit nursing homes in Miami Beach.
@ApproximatelyJane
11 жыл бұрын
I just looked up Judeo-Greek and found out that almost zero people speak it anymore. Now I'm super curious about your family history and your grandmother's life story.
@upperkeeldrum
6 ай бұрын
I love all languages but speak only English, my mother spoke Gaelic so I understand the love of ancient languages.
@manthasagittarius1
11 жыл бұрын
The same could be said of English. Yiddish is not a form of German. It was cut loose from German speaking territories too early and infused with too many Slavic influences (complex syntactic as well as lexical "loan word" acquisition) for far too long to be counted as a dialect of German. You are simply wrong. However, you might ask yourself why it is important to you to consider a fully separate language to be a "form" of something else -- besides some kind of Germanistic superiority delusion.
@seththomas9105
2 жыл бұрын
I know a little Plattdeutsch and I could understand a little bit of this. Kool.
@mrcatman6374
7 жыл бұрын
This is nice, a Yiddish speaker with a good accent (not American accent). Antwerp has a huge Yiddish speaking population. Apparently Antwerp has one of the largest 'eruvs' in the world (whole city center), which allows Jews to not break Sabbath rules.
@EnToutoiNika
9 ай бұрын
It's so... Curious. As someone who only speaks English, Romanian and Greek, at certain points it sounds like German, then it sounds like Hebrew, and in-between there's certain sentences where it sounds kinda Russian-ish.
@jackd.flippin6656
7 жыл бұрын
I speak and understand german, and I'll say that I understand about 80% of what he said.
@biglance
4 жыл бұрын
It is a. beautiful language ,I wish I spoke it.
@SuperHartline
10 жыл бұрын
There used to be a Czech yiddish. An example...I smoke. Akh rakh. I smoke too.... Akh rakh akh. It was a riot. I grew up with a Bubbe from the Ukraine. Volyna Gubernya to be precise. Look at her beautiful shtetl, Slavuta on the web. It was lovely.
@Marny5580
9 жыл бұрын
Reuben, my mom was born in Vilna Guberna (however it's written in English).
@attk177
8 жыл бұрын
akh rakh akh though makes sense to me in german. in german its "ich rauch auch" which, in some german region, would be spoken just like akh rakh akh
@12tanuha21
7 жыл бұрын
can be sound like "ik rach ach"
@ldgd4773
6 жыл бұрын
So was mine, only a small part of the family made it, before the Nazis kiiled them all
@therevolution91
4 жыл бұрын
Yiddish sounds a bit like when a Swiss German from the Western part of Switzerland where they speak French tries to speak German with a Swiss. I swear. We always had to communicate in German (not in Swiss German) with the Welsh (people from the Western part of Switzerland) in the army and we use to call them “Russians“. Really funny. 😂
@martinfrostnas6610
3 жыл бұрын
Kein Wunder, denn die Welsche lernen eben Hochdeutsch in der Schule :P
@therevolution91
3 жыл бұрын
@@martinfrostnas6610 Ja, aber im Militär in der Schweiz: niemand versteht einander. (Ja gut: ist vielleicht etwas übertrieben.)
@bluelightmoon777
Ай бұрын
what the heck, i understand like 80% of what he said, i grew up in austria but im not even austrian xD yiddish sounds cool
@diegodiego4522
3 жыл бұрын
recently I became interested in this language that I was so ignorant of. My grandmother used to speak to me in Yiddish and my grandfather ladino haha. I am not a practitioner of Judaism, in fact here in Spain there are hardly any synagogues but I want to get closer to the community. So if i now ladino i know some spanish and if i know yiddish i know some german 🤣
@swunt10
6 жыл бұрын
as a german I had to watch it twice to understand it. but then it sounded really clear to me. only some parts are really off.
@MoriasErben
Жыл бұрын
Me a german: understands almost every word
@simlover00
6 ай бұрын
I've only ever heard a word or two of Yiddish so was confused how it originated from German. Listening to this I can hear the German influence now
@黎勇輝
6 жыл бұрын
I am learning German, 2 years now. And Hebrew, 1 month now. It is basically German and has little to no Hebrew ties.
@maymayman0
5 ай бұрын
he was doing ethnographic research over 11 years ago! Very interesting! Wonder what he was looking into. 🤔
@reanimationeas342
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds so much like German (They are in the same language family so it makes sense)
@TcCvd
7 ай бұрын
It’s a mix of dutch and german with some hebrew slangs in it. Pretty cool language and it sounds noble.
@JacobOman-qb1lm
28 күн бұрын
And some slavic i believe
@mistermagoo8685
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t speak German nor Yiddish. But if I didn’t know I was listening to Yiddish I’d think this was German.
@Stormtroper16
9 ай бұрын
holy shit i am german and understand so much what he said. this is crzy
@friendlykraut635
10 жыл бұрын
Yiddish is like some german dialects, but in Germany nobody is talking so fast ^^
@ldgd4773
6 жыл бұрын
He was talking too fast for me, I know what he meant, when he said the old people wanted to hear him. Once I had a customer, who, when he found out I understood, but forgot a lot, he refused to speak English to me, looking back, I wish my parents did not stop using it, when they spoke to us. They did send us to a special Yiddish school called the The Workmen's Circle, sadly I forgot it all reading, and writing. Knowing more than one language makes your brain grow bigger, or at least your smarter, explains why the first generation does so well
@julem.2439
3 жыл бұрын
Germans are talking ofc as fast as that Oo
@michaelschneider1426
5 жыл бұрын
Yiddish is the best form of german dialects and languages
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