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langguessr · 1 year

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You can now learn languages with LangGuessr! Pick your level from 1 to 20, from the most common to the most obscure words, translate the words you know and memorise the ones you don't.

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rotzaprachim · 1 month

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Holy grail for Yiddish learners- a massive collection of over 100 Yiddish audiobooks books recorded by native speakers! You can listen on the internet, download to listen as mp3, and read along from the free uploaded copies on the Yiddish book center website - and it’s all completely free and accessible, no password needed

#In particular I recc this for other relative beginners #Even if you can’t understand it’s good to hear native speakers reading off literary stuff about everyday life rather than solely the topic #Of Yiddish itself #Yiddish #ייִדיש #Yiddish langblr #Learning Yiddish

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hindahoney · 6 months

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Has anyone else noticed the weird appropriation of Yiddish for specifically anti-zionist spaces? It makes me deeply uncomfortable.

#its gross #why are you all so fucking weird about jews #why cant you be normal #these same people are like “jews are a diaspora people so thats why we learn yiddish'#without thinking or asking where the diaspora is from #because you cant have a diaspora without a point of origin.....#and then they still deny jews are indigenous to israel #so they dont care about most mizrahi jews who literally live there and have forever #but then they kind of have this weird fascination with yemeni jewish culture #and like exoticize (?) Mizrahi jews #but not if youre from israel then youre immoral and evil

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chaotic-archaeologist · 1 year

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Duolingo, at it again with the incredibly useful phrases that I will no doubt be using frequently in everyday conversation...

Also, why does the bear give me the impression that it sees dead people because it just... killed a bunch of people?

#duolingo #he learns #yiddish

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jidysz · 2 months

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Drawing by Klaudia Kiercz-Długołęcka

Sztetł

Yiddish - שטעטל

English transcription - Shtetl

Meaning - a town

Sztibł

Yiddish - שטיבל‎

English transcription - Shtibl

Meaning - a house or a room used for communal Jewish prayer

Jesziwa

Yiddish - ישיבֿה

English transcription - Yeshiva

Meaning - a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of the Talmud

Mykwa

Yiddish - מיקווה

English transcription - Mikvah

Meaning - a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion to achieve ritual purity

Synagoga (this one is in Polish)

Yiddish - שול

English transcription - shul

Meaning - synagogue

Macewa

Yiddish - מצבֿה

English transcription - Matzevah

Meaning - a headstone or tombstone marking a Jewish grave

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fructidors · 8 months

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falsettos in yiddish. that's the post

#UGH BUT CAN HYOU IMAGINE #the commentary on the nuclear family would be on ANOTHER LEVEL #the commentary on JEWISH IDENTITY & MASCULINITY????? so FUCKING rich & complex #& having the lesbians from next door speak english. & having unlikely lovers be in both yiddish and english at the same time. OHHHHHHH #🎶 kvetch kvetch kvetch kvetch modne modne modne modne kvetch kvetch kvetch kvetch kvetch kvetch 🎶#the jokes would be funnier. the sad parts would hit harder. all in all the range of human emotion would be more intense & more moving #because it's carrying thousands of years of trauma and it's carrying it in such a way that physically cannot be ignored or bypassed #it would also be the biggest win for queer jews since like. harvey milk #SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO IT I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE #I'LL LEARN YIDDISH AND TRANSLATE IT MYSELF #falsettos

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vaspider · 8 months

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I cannot express how deeply or on how many levels this song cuts me.

#irish heritage #scots heritage #trying to learn Yiddish #just #remembering how my dad wasn't allowed to learn the only language his grandmother spoke #his dad didn't want him to #Youtube

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allinllachuteruteru · 6 months

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aeide-thea · 1 year

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beautiful & also terrible to have the sort of brain where you find yrself at 4:30 AM looking up intersections between jewishness & arthuriana. like. fucking amazing rabbit hole but. why am i not asleep. my head hurts and my eyes are sandy.

however. some cool things (that probably some of you knew abt already, but i did not!):

King Artus – "a 'Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279… Judaized and transformed.' […] Although the story in 'King Artus' is fairly straightforwardly Arthur’s as we know it today, there are little touches that tie it to Jewish literature. When, for example, Arthur’s mother, the Duchess, learns that her husband is dead and she has been deceived by the shape-shifting Uther Pendragon, she tries to figure out how that could be possible. 'No sooner had he gone more than a bow-shot’s distance away from the castle than the messenger came straight to my chamber.' That bow-shot’s distance comes not from Arthurian legend but from the story of Hagar, who sits a bow-shot’s distance away from her son Ishmael when Abraham casts them out and she does not want to see her son die."

Bovo-Bukh – "a chivalric romance adapted in 1507 by Elye Bokher (Elijah Baḥur *Levita) into 650 ottava rima stanzas in Yiddish from a Tuscan version (Buovo d'Antona) of the early 14th-century Anglo-Norman original, Boeuve de Haumton. This tale of the heroic adventures of the noble Bovo, exiled from his homeland by the machinations of his murderous mother, his wanderings through the world (as far as Babylon), and the love story of Bovo and Druzyana, their separation, his triumphant return home, and the final reunion with Druzyana and their two sons, proved to be one of the most beloved tales in the Yiddish literary tradition over the course of more than two centuries."

Vidvilt – "anonymous 15th–16th-century Yiddish epic. This Arthurian romance of the chivalric adventures of Sir Vidvilt (and his father Gawain), based on Wirnt von Gravenberg's 13th-century Middle High German Wigalois, proved to be one of the most enduringly popular secular narratives in Yiddish literary history, with numerous manuscript recensions, printings (the first in an extensively expanded version by Joseph b. Alexander Witzenhausen, Amsterdam 1671), and reprintings, in rhymed couplets, ottava rima (Prague 1671–79), and prose, over the course of three and a half centuries. The anonymous poet of the earliest Yiddish version composed more than 2,100 rhymed couplets (probably in northern Italy), following Wirnt's plot rather closely through the first three-quarters of the narrative (abbreviating much and generally eliminating specific Christian reference), before offering quite a different conclusion."

Sir Gabein – "from 1788-89, a tale in which the Arthurian knight Gabein does not return to Camelot but – via Russia and Sardinia – reaches China and ultimately ascends to the Chinese imperial throne as the new emperor." slow blink.

also this is getting beyond arthuriana into just epic poetry generally but. literally all of this sounds fascinating.

anyway. literary scholar manqué.e hrs as always here at k dot tumblr dot edu obviously! however. my ear is open like a greedy shark, &c.

#me like 'i know i didn't actually properly learn german despite taking literally years of it at c— but what if i learned yiddish'#this will not happen but. 🤔#that said: does seem like ppl have produced translations of most of this stuff altho like. i admit i DO hate reading in translation #…despite loving translation. this may sound nuts but like. i always want to be familiar with both ends of the process! /o\#ok no really the birds are chirping. enough. hit post.#bookblogging #(i guess)

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the-one-eyed-seer · 1 year

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On this speak your language day I wish all Jews reconnecting to their languages a very am yisrael chai and mir veln zey eberlieben

#I personally am trying to learn more Yiddish and Hebrew #Jumblr #speak your language day

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roseverdict · 20 days

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new shitty superpower idea: you can understand anyone on the planet, but ONLY if they are either speaking in your mother tongue or any language other than their own. you know exactly what someone's saying if they have to keep jumping between languages they've previously dabbled in because they don't remember much vocab from any, or if they learned a second language through schooling or personal hobby interest, but if somebody's multilingual due to being raised with multiple languages, you'd better hope they figure out they need to speak in something else or you're likely screwed

#rosie babbles #presumably if you go to the trouble of intentionally learning additional languages then you'd be able to understand ppl using them normally #but yeah if you were raised exclusively with. say. spanish. and somebody else was raised with english and german and yiddish #you'd better hope they took some french lessons or something. or spanish lessons!#word nerd

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rotzaprachim · 27 days

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nothing like introducing a friend to the sheer joys of

a) https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?startyear=1783&endyear=1981

the national library of Israel historic newspaper archive!!!! - this is one of the widest ranging collections of Jewish language documents I’ve ever found and includes quite literally millions of pages of Jewish papers and magazines not only in Yiddish and hebrew but also ladino, Spanish, French, judeo-Arabic, polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian, the list goes ever on…. If you’ve seen the very very pretty covers to the milgroyim and rimonim art journals then you should know they are available online for free:

https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/rmn? https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/rmn? Learning ladino? Here’s a ten years of a monthly paper for ladino speaking immigrants to the early twentieth century U.S.:

https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/laa? Here’s a Yiddish paper from 1920’s Havana!:

There’s so so much here! b) Yiddish book center! And their ELEVEN THOUSAND YIDDISH BOOKS which are free to read anywhere without an account! https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/search?f%5B0%5D=collection%3AYiddish%20Book%20Center%27s%20Spielberg%20Digital%20Yiddish%20Library

Overwhelmed? Here’s the top 1000:

still overwhelmed? Here’s a more manageable list of audiobooks read off by native speakers:

Learning Yiddish? Here are some readers and children’s books:

Enjoy!

#In a world where we talk about things needing to be free! Let’s celebrate what is!#ייִדיש #Yiddish #yiddish resources #learning Yiddish #Ladino #לאַדינו

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salvadorbonaparte · 6 months

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After three lessons I think I'm not actually learning much Yiddish in my class (as in during class hours) but it's forcing me to work through a textbook chapter a week, do the exercises and actually speak the language out loud once a week

#language learning #langblr #Yiddish #ייִדיש

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chaotic-archaeologist · 4 months

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