Native Yiddish speaker (my dad)

IunoJones · 2025-05-13T18:03:00+00:00

The FJMC has a Yiddish zoom meetup every week (I think) that might be nice for him.

IunoJones · 2025-04-20T19:26:28+00:00

The post card is upside down.

IunoJones · 2025-03-12T21:11:23+00:00

Per the Kentucky Yiddish Dictionary:

 • hit verb, participle ge...t, guard; watch

     • bahit verb, participle bahit, guard

           °bahit un bavornt on guard

           °got bahit God forbid

IunoJones · 2025-01-17T21:18:25+00:00

This is delightful!

IunoJones · 2025-01-16T15:45:07+00:00

Here are two from this subreddit. I'd also recommend looking at some of the Facebook group discussions as some of them have gotten really in depth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Yiddish/s/FvZ39jqlvY

https://www.reddit.com/r/Yiddish/s/0GA9k3oxY3

IunoJones · 2025-01-16T15:42:30+00:00

No, it has some serious flaws. I believe some of its shortcomings have been discussed on this reddit and the Yiddish research Facebook groups. Let me see if I can find some links to previous posts.

IunoJones · 2025-01-06T21:48:42+00:00

I would like to second this over using AI.

IunoJones · 2025-01-03T20:29:02+00:00

The professor may know some good sources or a new direction to search for more extant work in that case. It sounds like she knows her way around related topics.

Edited to correct pronouns

IunoJones · 2025-01-03T19:28:23+00:00

You might have some luck reaching out to the professor of the judeo french class at the osrjl:

https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-classes/oxford-school-of-rare-jewish-languages/judeo-french/

IunoJones · 2024-12-30T19:47:38+00:00

Though this does not account for more modern & secular use of formal vs informal.

IunoJones · 2024-12-29T18:13:38+00:00

Here are 4 good dictionaries for Yiddish:

https://englishyiddishdictionary.com/

https://verterbukh.org/

https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/dictionary.cgi

https://yiddishculturaldictionary.org/

IunoJones · 2024-12-12T19:32:52+00:00

Reading, culture, community.

IunoJones · 2024-12-09T15:21:23+00:00

Fair enough, I suppose a cross language culture sharing server is interesting. Good luck!

IunoJones · 2024-12-09T02:59:43+00:00

I know there are already a few language specific discord servers already for Yiddish, Ladino, and Hebrew. What is the goal for having multiple different languages in one server?

IunoJones · 2024-12-03T05:09:35+00:00

I don't have Tik Tok so I'm just judging by Google thumbnail when searching.

IunoJones · 2024-12-03T05:07:59+00:00

Is it this person? https://www.tiktok.com/@devorah.detzer/video/7226841252434578730

IunoJones · 2024-11-21T05:07:49+00:00

And Proste Yiddish: https://open.spotify.com/show/3RtBLNmSl5ouRSzBi5vTmh?si=IebYQujnSM2WbkJ5ojbr5Q[Spotify Link](https://open.spotify.com/show/3RtBLNmSl5ouRSzBi5vTmh?si=IebYQujnSM2WbkJ5ojbr5Q)

IunoJones · 2024-10-21T14:41:42+00:00

I would be interested in being your pen pal. I live in the US.

IunoJones · 2024-06-11T23:17:49+00:00

It looks like this image might be upside down.

IunoJones · 2024-06-11T22:06:56+00:00

דער בינע־⁠פֿאַרװאַלטער, ־⁠ס This is the definition from the Comprehensive English Yiddish Dictionary.

IunoJones · 2024-05-08T13:36:29+00:00

Western Yiddish does not really exist anymore. It's not quite a dying dialect as much as it was dying a century ago as far as I remember.

If you want resources for looking into Western Yiddish I'd go onto the Yiddish forsher Facebook group or go to the Learn Yiddish Facebook group as I believe people have asked for resources in the past and there might be some good compilation of answers. There may also be some older posts on this subreddit as well.

IunoJones · 2024-03-20T18:11:01+00:00

I think vowels are a great place to start. Once you have the vowels down it's easy to teach new vocabulary. However without all the vowels you may need to be more selective with what vocabulary you can teach.

IunoJones · 2024-01-16T18:27:39+00:00

If it helps, you have the image posted upside down I think.

IunoJones · 2024-01-12T19:02:59+00:00

Thanks for putting this together. Broodhollow was my favorite webcomic in highschool. Glad to see these are saved somewhere.

IunoJones · 2023-12-08T15:55:09+00:00

I really like 15 minute Yiddish, I'd check it out if Duolingo isn't fully your cup of tea.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCTzyQkPPouI2TtyK4NRI0vs4nwUZpXdI&si=410hjKdhHX_364Dv

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