Jessie Meyers speaking YIDDISH

[GabsBlabsTV]

Wow! 97! She's such a vibrant, beautiful, and adorable woman!

[JimmyKs68]

What a cute old lady :)

[pulchritude92]

hahahahahaha! She's adorable! Bless her young spirit! At her age I hope I can still laugh and eat jellies the way she does.

Thanks for sharing.

[Belson20]

thank you very much for making the effort to capture this moment!

I'm watching this video in Israel with my warsaw-born grandfather, Ytzchak, who is also being my interpreter.

my grandfather says:

zei gezunt un shtark and tzu a hundert un tzvantzik yor! :)

[alexanderlinden]

זייער זייער זיס איך האב געהאט הנאה צו הערן ווי אזוי דער באבע רעט אידיש!! What a wonderful lady i would love to chat with her in yiddish she definetly has a very authentic prewar european way of speaking yiddish .

One doesnt hear it spoken like this anymore.. And yiddish is still spoken in europe like in antwerp belgium in the jewish quarter.. A sag hatzloche babbe a gezinten lebn biz hinderd tzwanzig

[beng993]

can definitely hear the german

[HesseJamez]

@beng993

I'am german and I can understand all she says.

[ghoulardi]

Great video, found it while working on our family tree and researching Yiddish, my Brooklyn Heritage, Please Give your sweet grandma a big kiss and let her know the video is a great lesson and she is one COOL chick!

[iconmmg]

Grandma is great. Thanks for sharing. Fun to watch.

[Caseysmom2]

aah, that was priceless. I laughed so much! thank you for sharing your family video. what a treasured keepsake for all your family. It really also serves as a semi-oral history of sorts. we have to preserve the past so we know where we came from.

[patrick10001]

Grote man lol.

Big man.

[patrick10001]

Je groteboy. Its sounds dutch/german/english lol.

[one4sorrow]

I miss my grandparents :(

[ElderPinkerton]

This is a wonderful video. It's so great that you can laugh with your grandmother and capture it on video. She seems like a pistol! I love it. Her whole face lights up when she smiles! It's generous of you to share this with us. Be blessed.

[AnnaMishel]

This is so precious and joyful! My parents spoke exactly like that and the were LITVAKS from Kovne and Kalvaria . . not Russians.

It reminds me of how the valley girls talk!

It's like Whoopi Goldberg imitating the Valley Girls!

Anway . . that's for the video . . finally someone that speaks Yiddish right!!!:)

[phathead41]

I only speak English, and I've learned a little French. I love different languages. Yiddish is such a fun sounding language. I can understand some of it, surprisingly. I am jealous that my cultural background doesn't include something neat like this. I would be trying to soak up as much of this as possible. God bless your grandmother.

[randi1len]

I try to capture moments like this for future generations to see. ikhveysnit....lighten up.

This is my grandmother at 96. She will be 97 on 2/21.

That means my Mom will be 77 and I'll be 57! OY!!!!

check out my other movies if u want....type in...randi1len,

You will get to see my grandmother as a professional artist.

The Yiddish thing isn't her at all! I would call her a pretty contemporary woman. That's why I said funny, I guess.

[punkinpie44982]

It's amazing how close Yiddish is to German...I guess because it's based on German, with snippets of Hebrew and other languages thrown in. God bless your mother! What is her history? Did she live in Germany or Russia or somewhere?

[patrick10001]

@punkinpie44982 Germanic*

[punkinpie44982]

PS: I meant your grandmother, not mother.

[punkinpie44982]

This is hilarious! And cute. A real treasure.

[randi1len]

I try to capture moments like this for future generations to see. ikhveysnit....lighten up. LOL

This is my grandmother at 96. She will be 97 on 2/21.

That means my Mom will be 77 and I'll be 57! OY!!!!

check out my other movies if u want....type in...randi1len,

You will get to see my grandmother as a professional artist.

The Yiddish thing isn't her at all! I would call her a pretty contemporary woman. That's why I said funny, I guess.

[ikhveysnit]

Meaning I'm an anachronism? Lol. biz hundert un tzvantsik.

[ikhveysnit]

I don't know. English sounds a lot funnier to me than Yiddish. The Ukranian Yiddish I speak isn't sing-songy like this Litvak Yiddish, but it doesn't sound funny to me at all.