9 Reason To Learn Yiddish

[Hrvatski Noahid]

https://youtu.be/jPyuElFxRVA

I laughed so hard when she said that Hebrew vowels are made up of invisible dots! 

[briann]

Wait, the number of Yiddish speakers is increasing?   When did this happen?

[ChabadKahanist]

I speak,read & write Yiddish

[Hrvatski Noahid]

I speak,read & write Yiddish

How many languages do you know?

[ChabadKahanist]

How many languages do you know?

Hebrew,English,Yiddish,German,some Russian & some Spanish

[Hrvatski Noahid]

Hebrew,English,Yiddish,German,some Russian & some Spanish

Well done. It seems that JTFers love languages!

[briann]

Hebrew,English,Yiddish,German,some Russian & some Spanish

I'm impressed, I can barely speak English.   Did your parents teach you Yiddish?

[ChabadKahanist]

I'm impressed, I can barely speak English.   Did your parents teach you Yiddish?

Actually they spoke it when they didn't want me to understand once I went away to dorm in yeshiva in Brooklyn many of the Rebbeim were off the  banana boat from Russia & spoke only Yiddish,Hebrew or Russian so there was no choice but to learn how to speak it plus the shiurim were in Yiddish.
After 6 months my Yiddish was better than theirs & as good as my grandparent's Yiddish.

[briann]

Actually they spoke it when they didn't want me to understand once I went away to dorm in yeshiva in Brooklyn many of the Rebbeim were off the  banana boat from Russia & spoke only Yiddish,Hebrew or Russian so there was no choice but to learn how to speak it plus the shiurim were in Yiddish.
After 6 months my Yiddish was better than theirs & as good as my grandparent's Yiddish.

Wow, kinda opposite of my parents.   My grandparents would speak Yiddish in the household conversation, but would switch to Russian when they wanted their conversations to be private.

[ChabadKahanist]

Wow, kinda opposite of my parents.   My grandparents would speak Yiddish in the household conversation, but would switch to Russian when they wanted their conversations to be private.

My grandparents also switched to Russian when they didn't want anybody to understand.
That I picked up a little on the street

[Hrvatski Noahid]

My grandparents switched to Kajkavian when they didn't want me to understand them. Even as a child I think I understood Russian better than Kajkavian.

[briann]

I think it's sad to see these old languages die.   Yiddish is actually quite old compared with a majority of languages spoken today.   For example, both modern German & English are radically different from their ancestor languages of a millennia ago, and are considered separate languages.... whereas Yiddish has stayed basically the same... but has added new words as the Jews passed into new areas.

[Hrvatski Noahid]

I think it's sad to see these old languages die.   Yiddish is actually quite old compared with a majority of languages spoken today.   For example, both modern German & English are radically different from their ancestor languages of a millennia ago, and are considered separate languages.... whereas Yiddish has stayed basically the same... but has added new words as the Jews passed into new areas.

It is sad. On the other hand, mastering a language requires a lot of time and effort. Standard languages with many speakers will always be more important than regional languages. Furthermore, having one national language promotes national unity.

All living languages undergo changes. I have no idea how Yiddish was able to stay the same.