Got Yiddish?

PSA for learning Yiddish.

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[sugababe826]

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

[Suki40330]

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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.

[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

[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 :)

[sushidudeiscool]

halts yiddish in di yiddishkeyt!

keep the 'yiddish' in 'yiddishkeit'!

[FreeTheOccupiedWest]

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