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Uploaded by on Sep 3, 2007

Millie teaches you the Yiddish words for Beautiful, Moon, Black Coffee, Blue, Book.

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  • @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".

  • -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...

  • 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.

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

    

  • 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.

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

  • heheh :]

    moon in yiddish is like in hebrew- levana

    and the rest are like german

  • YOU ARE AMAZING

  • Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

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