9 Reason To Learn Yiddish║Lindsay Does Languages Video

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[celiabrauer]

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.

[ahmadbenissa]

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🇲🇦

[michakirschniok]

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 :)

[mattgunia]

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.

[ctzippifuchs]

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 😆🙃

[avremke]

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 :)

[coolbrotherf]

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.

[omiumn.]

As a native Yiddish speaker it's interesting watching Charlie Chaplin and others and knowing that we share the same mother tongue.

[elishevabarenbaum]

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!

[highchamp]

Learning German
I noticed straight away many words that Yiddish uses.
My first exposure of Yiddish was TV (Laverne & Shirley) and MAD Magazine.

[taroshrimp]

Lol I'm german

Time to learn my fifth language

[martincooper]

א גרויסע יישר כוח פאר אייער ארבעט!! יא... איך האב זיך געלערענט יידיש וועגען דיר!!

[mohamadmerhi]

Can you do a video on greek and russian ? Please, that would be amazing!

[mchobbit]

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.

[embqdho]

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.

[kivsa]

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

[מאמין-גנ]

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 .

[ugneugne]

Please do next 9 reasons to learn lithuanian!!!Because i live there.;)

[toxicperson]

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.

[adimikimkoydu]

Numbers except for 9 sound almost the same as in German wow :D