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Bbcatcher 08
Diglot
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07 March 2013 at 1:28am | IP Logged

Hello all,

I want to learn Yiddish, and I want to find resources. For those of you that have
learned, or are learning, what resources have you used?

Thanks
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leroc
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07 March 2013 at 2:08am | IP Logged

I've heard from another forum member that Assimil is making a Yiddish course with an English base, it should be coming out soon. Perhaps someone should email the company to verify.

caracao wrote:

I'm checking the assimil facebook wall, they're comunicating with it now.
From what I've read, mostly french:

For French speakers:

Spanish : advanced method, 2014.
Russian : advanced method, end 2013, early 2014.
Cantonese, end 2013.
Japanese : new method or very updated method, no idea. Early 2013.
Esperanto, not available anymore for sale, will available only online in the future, through their apps probably.
Danish : new method, end 2013, early 2014.
Occitan : new method, normally may 2013.
Chinese : no advanced method for the moment.
Korean : no new method for the moment.
Polish : no advanced method for the moment.
Serbian : they're looking for a good writer to do the method.
Hungarian : new method end 2012.
Czech : early 2013.
Dutch : no advanced method for the moment.
Indonesian : updated edition, 2012.

I think I've read something about Sanskrit and Khmer as well for 2013.

Oh and I just bought the new advanced Italian, it's huge, better than the advanced English, more text, less notes and explanation below, lot of good grammar. More than 4h of audio, the Advanced English, only has 3h30.
Advanced German huge too, had a look at it in the library.
Advanced Arabic looks very good too.

Ukrainian assimil : only 80 lessons, but seems to do the job. Cultural explanations at the end of each lessons. The grammar and the texts seems good, not too short, not too long. Looks like a very serious method.

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English speakers :

Like russian in 2012 you'll have :
Hebrew : 2013.
Yiddish : 2013.
Spanish : 2013.
German : 2013.
Italian : 2014.
French : 2014.
Ancient Egyptian : 2014.
Brazilian Portuguese : 2014.

And they say they want to create apps for android, apple, say they're very late.

Edit:: I updated my post to show the post I was talking about

Edited by leroc on 07 March 2013 at 7:04am
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Bbcatcher 08
Diglot
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07 March 2013 at 2:28am | IP Logged

leroc wrote:

I've heard from another forum member that Assimil is making a Yiddish
course with an English base, it should be coming out soon. Perhaps someone should email
the company to verify.

I'll do that.
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arturs
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07 March 2013 at 7:25pm | IP Logged

I used Assimil (but French based) - very good. Colloquial also has some decent material. Sheva Zucker's Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language both volumes are also good.
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akkadboy
Triglot
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France
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Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish
Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh

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07 March 2013 at 7:39pm | IP Logged

I used Assimil, it did a pretty good job but I had a smattering of German before I began and this obviously helped. I see you're studying Dutch that should make Yiddish easier for you.
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Bbcatcher 08
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07 March 2013 at 9:34pm | IP Logged

I haven't been able to find a copy of the "Colloquial" for what I'd like to pay for it.
Unfortunately, I do not know any French, so I am unable to use the French edition of
Assimil.

@Arturs- I'll check out that series, thanks
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Bbcatcher 08
Diglot
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11 March 2013 at 6:27pm | IP Logged

I got an email from Assimil earlier, they have confirmed Yiddish will be published later
in the year
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nilfisq
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Speaks: Dutch*, French, English, Afrikaans, Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian, Modern Hebrew, German, Danish
Studies: Icelandic

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14 March 2013 at 2:09pm | IP Logged

I'm doing the (French based) Assimil course and really enjoy it. I started with Colloquial Yiddish, but I found the
dialogues tedious (apart from the folk tales) and a lot of vocabulary that is given in the texts, is not included in the
lexicon. As a native speaker of Dutch, I don't have a lot of difficulties learning Yiddish and lots of grammar points
are obvious for speakers of Germanic languages, but I think Assimil did a great job with this book.

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