Yiddish Class: Beautiful, Moon, Black Coffee, Blue, Book

[skiegiek]

-beautiful (english), sheyn (yiddish), schön (german)

-moon (english), levone (yiddish), mond (german)

-black coffee (english), shvarts kave (yiddish), schwarzer kaffee (german)

-blue (english), bloy (yiddish), blau (german)

-book (english), bikh (yiddish), buch (german)

most of the german and yiddish words are pronounced the same...

[doctim11]

Yiddish was based on medieval middle and high German and written in Hebrew. If you can speak German, you can understand a lot of Yiddish once you account for some vowel differences.

[Jenny1954]

My parents, olev a sholem, used to call a book a "bichel". They were Litvacks.

[Elberiver11]

@Jenny1954 This makes sense, because Yiddish is based on South-German. And if you add the letters "-el" to a word in south-german (but not in north-german), it simply means "small". Bikh = Book, Bikhel = (little) Book.

Same like in English "book" and "booklet".

[HerrSpieldose]

this reminds me of being a cosmetologist and being hired for bat mitzvahs and mainly because I spoke German from native family in Bavaria and they were most anti Nazi of Germans and because I understood Yiddish, I would do the same up do on 30 girls and it was hell when any of them would mess it up but they paid extra for my patience and some of the old folks because I was a kind Bavarian.

[LingerieGoddess]

She's so sweet. Excellent Class, Thank You!

[kootzyyy]

heheh :]

moon in yiddish is like in hebrew- levana

and the rest are like german

[TheZeddyandLevyShow]

YOU ARE AMAZING

[777Finster]

Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sparkleforamoment]

i love learning yiddish! oy, i wish i wasnt a shiksa.

[yakovleitner]

yeah!!!

i love her.

of course i knew the word kave, cause in Mea Shearim ppl use that word

[stevengornitzky]

she is charming!

[blackspace007]

Your mom is sheyn. She seems very kind

Shalom

[BoboBerlinsky]

Millie, to say hello or good bye just say Shalom or Gut Mozel or gut(good) morgan (morning) or gut nacht (night) and wave. I don't know a lot but I think that when you greet someone or they are departing, you offer a wish or prayer to them. That's how you say hello or good bye. (that is, if you like them, otherwise there are other things, ha ha.) You can even just say mozel tov. Let me know what you "tinks" about that. Ha ha!(I might be farklempt also).... OY! I have to go and eat my knish!

[Eitalk58]

What fun. Millie you are a wonderful teacher. My grandparents both spoke only Yiddish and my mother remembers some I(a bissel?) I will be watching and learning from you and of course pass this on to my 81 year old mother!

[New2UToob]

I am a new Millie subscriber and I'm loving these videos!!!!

[Plume4you]

Millie, I love your videos. You don't look 82, you don't look a day over 60

[skidish212]

Your Mom is lovely! And, I love Yiddish! I will be watching more of her classes.

[Kinbarii]

thanks for posting your vids Millie. They were all very entertaining and fun to watch! keep them coming!

[SharonFleiner]

Keep your videos coming. I love learning bits and pieces of Yiddish from you Millie.

[snarkdetriomphe]

was a wonderful millie marathon day!