Got Yiddish?

[Supenmanu]

Actually really learning real Yiddish would be really simple. Just learn German (learn it perfectly including all the slang words) and then you are already 99% there (-:

Cause real Yiddish is really just a dialect of German and it's even a very simple and easy dialect that is much closer to standard German than most of the other German dialects. Learning Swabian for example (popular German dialect in the south of Germany) would be MUCH harder.

[crschechter]

@Supenmanu Although Yiddish is a Germanic language, you are completely incorrect. Yiddish is a complete and separate language. Yiddish and modern German split off from a common ancestor (much like Spanish and Portuguese evolved from Latin). Yiddish has its own vocabulary, grammar, idioms, etc. Indeed Yiddish itself has several dialects. Although a fluent Yiddish speaker could probably understand a German speaker, the reverse is certainly not true, esp. due to the Slavic and Hebrew influences.

[Supenmanu]

@crschechter: It's the same with all the other German dialects. Swabian too has it's own grammar, vocabulary and idioms. Swabian too has thousands of dialects (the dialects differ from city to city).

Oh and yes i can understand Yiddish just fine. I am not Jewish and i don't speak Yiddish, but i can understand it - no problem.

[ljuba1986]

@crschechter don´t fight about language who cares from who it is germans can understand jiddish if its spoken slow and jew whospeaks jiddish can understand german if its spoken slow maseltoff to all of u

[Tamdeototam]

A shprikhvort, iz a vorvort.

[Lagolop]

Here is an interesting phrase; at least I find it funny.

Er drayt sich arum vie a fortz in russell

[sushidudeiscool]

halts yiddish in di yiddishkeyt!

keep the 'yiddish' in 'yiddishkeit'!

[AssemblerGuy]

Danish aircraft all have five letters in their "tail number", always beginning with OY, so you can have a danish-registred aircraft with "OY-VEY" painted on the sides... XD

[suelo88]

lol

i think it is very funny....i am not jewish,but i come from east austria enar the hungarian border and we arespeaking dialect and this dialect sounds so much similar to yiddish.....

so greetings to everyone from austria

[NinaKohenski104]

Fantastic :] Good job!

[sugababe826]

umm. no. not at all. most aren't. thats a rlly racist thing to say

[FreeTheOccupiedWest]

Sharon Stone and Alicia Silverstone aren't exactly ugly. But then they don't look very stereotypically Jewish either..

[Meskal2612]

ich spreche deutsch, daher versteh ich ziemlich viel yiddish,

sehr cool

grüsse aus wien

greez from vienna

[PrueHalliwell1971]

ja ich auch1

KOMME aus frankfurt

[gordonmaloney0]

hob geheat, bairisch un östareichisch is ähnlicha mit jiddisch als de andra hoschdeitsch dialektn.

[crg64]

I know a little bit of German and Hebrew.Might be cool to pick up some Yiddish.Sort of a Deutsch-Ivrit language.

[renfest]

Ikh hob dir in drerd

[awakstein]

can't believe nobody said the best word in yddish...Kishin tujes!

[Meirstein]

If you took German, Yiddish is great because you know 85% of the words.

[FloridaHuntingGuide]

if you want to learn yiddish, my mother is 90 and in a Fla nursing home; she is the widow wife of a mob boss , ILGWU.>

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[yfh10mg]

That language is just annoying listening to.

[Suki40330]

I'm a meshugge Jew and I like it that way! Great video! Todah.

[gitlgitl]

Yiddish is not a combo of Hebrew and German duh. Read will ya? It's a combination of many languages: Peasant German, Dutch, Aramaic, Hebrew All the Romance Languages and some Eastern European languages, Latin, Greek, you name it .

It's not dead ...it's alive and kicking. And if this Yiddishe person was near ya...she'd shmit ya(hit ya)...you deserve it.

[Silex22]

Seems to me like more than half of the words are german words in that language. Yiddish was spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews who originated from the Rhineland which is in Germany, and thus spoke the old German language mixed with Hebrew.

Romance languages? Which yiddish words come from the romance languages?

[basestone]

Indeed most words come from German.

To my German ears Jiddisch sounds like a german dialect.

Even the name Jiddisch means "Jüdisch" (Jewish).

Every German understands some 4/5 of language.

[tired2B]

The Jews originated from Spain, the Sephardish Jews, speak an old Spanish dialect. This language is spoken by Jews in Southern Europe. Elias Canetti, a Nobel Prize winner for literature, grew up with this language in Bulgaria before WWI. But he won the Prize for German literature. But he was a British citizen.

[crschechter]

@Silex22 the word 'bentshn' is a verb meaning "to pray." It has same root as the latin/french 'benediction." Indeed, Ashkenazi Jews moved to the Rhineland from Southern France/Northern Italy hundreds of years ago.

[Lagolop]

I'm no expert but I have done some research.

Jews lived in Northern France and Germany since the early 4th century. Yiddish is essentially Medieval High German and in fact is one of the oldest Germanic languages.. In the beginning it contained some Hebrew words but the language has incorporated other words as Jews migrated east from the Rhine area to areas like Poland etc. It also contains English words, and English contains some Yiddish (but most ppl wold not realize that)

A gute nakht :)

[nlitement]

<3

װי גײט עס, מײנע ייִדפֿרײנדן?

[hotluxembourgreggae]

yiddish is very simple its just a mixture of hebrew and german i just noticed i can^t speak yiddish but i understand every thing that they write here. That's cool. but its like latin its a dead language.

[nadav3333]

Ok, if its dead then why are so many young people all over the world taking up the language. I guess you could say the same thing for Belarussian which is hardly spoken in Belarus these days, except in villages. God so many haters of languages!

[hotluxembourgreggae]

i'm not a hater of this language.

[shimke2]

Yidish lebt! (ober s'iz nisht azoy klor fun dem video.) Vos es zol nisht zayn, ober a bisl humor iz tomid keday!!!

[yshayahoo]

es iz tzu kurtz.lets have more. shaye

[corryton]

Ikh vel shtupn

[teahut]

Schmekkel-Dekke = Condom (Penis Garment)

[teahut]

Scmekkel-Dekke = Condom (Penis Garment)

[Drpeppah12345]

brech !Aroisgevofeneh! brech brech!

chalushes ehhhh.

:Q

[thealbamale]

lchaim

[Hello0679]

nishtihay nishtahar

[pisketty]

ah! i saw leyzer on this video!!

[obiwanobiwan13]

I only know a few phrases, mostly by speech and mostly not suitable for a tempered conversation. I'm trying to learn of the internet.

[hiphopcalle]

my raper name is yeddish...oh yeah yeddish parte los microfonos ,

[meichey]

Baruch Hashem fur Yiddisch!!

[neospydel]

What is happening to my world?

[vijnitz]

doos americanishe yiddish iz a groysse vitz! goonicht mit goonisht.

[Anjelikka]

alevay vayter

[HoTtEa92]

eech ken git yiddish. eech hub geflaked tzee reden yiddish biz eech hub geven non yoor alt. yetzed eech bin fiftzen oben eech red noch tzee man mishpooche ven eech guy tzerik tzee ziy.

[DrugsBiggestillusion]

eech ken aleh yiddish, eech hub geflaked tzee reden yiddish biz eech hub geven non yoor alt. yetzed eech bin fiftzen

[musesuseus]

a gezunt af dayn kop!

[quarrendon]

shkoyekh!