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| J-Learner Senior Member Australia Joined 6028 days ago 556 posts - 636 votes  Studies: Yiddish, English* Studies: Dutch | Message 9 of 15 03 April 2009 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just remembered...they are releasing a Yiddish Teach Yourself course in December. I am rubbing my hands together already in anticipation :D
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| Oneskarf Newbie United States Joined 5948 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Yiddish | Message 10 of 15 03 April 2009 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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J-Learner thanks for the excellent link and for the info about the upcoming Teach Yourself release. I enjoy the TY materials quite alot. I'm happy not just because such a quality publisher is addressing the needs of Yiddish learners, but also because the demand is sufficient for them to produce it.
I have just begun using the Sheva Zucker course material (book and CDs), and am enjoying it so far. It's definitely not a dry approach thus far - I like her choices of example sentences and dialogues. They had my wife and I cracking up - they sounded like our own families talking. Thanks again! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| J-Learner Senior Member Australia Joined 6028 days ago 556 posts - 636 votes Studies: Yiddish, English* Studies: Dutch | Message 11 of 15 04 April 2009 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I'll start putting together a list of Yiddish links like I did for the Pali language some months back. I'll send it to you and post a thread the 'Links & Internet Resources' section of this forum. I hope you will like it :)
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| Oneskarf Newbie United States Joined 5948 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Yiddish | Message 12 of 15 04 April 2009 at 7:41pm | IP Logged | ||
I would really appreciate that, J-Learner. Thanks again! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vuizminebits Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5701 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Yiddish Studies: Swahili | Message 13 of 15 14 April 2009 at 8:12am | IP Logged | ||
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There was and still is a huge amount of literature available in the Yiddish language. Literary magazines are still published, even children's magazines. Yiddish newspapers also still publish original fiction, especially the Yiddish forward www.yiddish.forward.com. The claim that Yiddish literature is "rare" is surprising, especially coming from a German, and of course completly wrong. "di darfst veysn mer fin dem!" Until the Holocaust there were 70 daily Yiddish newspapers in Eastern Europe and another 50 in other communities and about 3,600 publications around the world (far more than the vast vast majority of languages at the time, maybe the 20th most published in language in the world at the time!). In 1939 between four and five thousands works were in print in Yiddish. The best selling book that year was hucklebrry fin. Most of the magazines back then published literature and the major newspapers from pre-war Europe are available through archives. Between 1860 and 1939 over 8,000 original works of fiction were published in the language. But I digress. You can get most of these books online for free from the National Yiddish Book Center or through print on demand editions. Today in the Hasidic world there are about three hundred new books being published annually, maybe 40 by Yiddish writers yearly from outside of the Hasidic world, including some fantastic literature in recent years. You also have a lot of original work being published online, through newspapers, and the like.
Here are some websites to check out: eyiddish.org For learning Yiddish yugntruf.org A Yiddish speakers organization for Young Yiddish speakers outside of the Hasidic world and parents raising their children in Yiddish. yv.org A Yiddish radio program with a store. yiddish.forward.com A Yiddish newspaper and Yiddish language radio program. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Adi Newbie United States Joined 5814 days ago 33 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English* | Message 14 of 15 16 April 2009 at 6:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I used Sheva Zucker's books and CDs to learn Yiddish and although the exercises tended to be a bit dry, the songs
and stories at the end of the lessons are usually great. Have you gotten to the "Bulbes" song yet? Montik, Bulbes, Dienstik, Bulbes...ober un vider Bulbes! :) I agree with the person who mentioned the Yiddish book center in Amherst. They also put out a monthly magazine, Pakn Treger that features translations and material of interest to a Yiddish enthusiast. If you are in New York, there are a few Yiddish newspapers that you can buy in the bodegas. I read Forverts and the Algemeiner Journal and use Uriel Weinreich's excellent Yiddish dictionary when I don't understand something. Zey Gezunt! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5744 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 15 of 15 16 April 2009 at 6:39am | IP Logged | ||
I know, I'm Jewish. I don't speak Yiddish, but everyone in my family except my parents and I do. I wish I had learned as a first language from my family. It is very colorful with its expressions. I shall tackle it someday. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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