#learn yiddish

[langguessr]

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.

This is a learning method I developed to work best for myself, if it works for any of you then all the better!

List of languages currently available (more coming soon!):

- Bosnian - Bulgarian - Catalan - Croatian - Czech - Dutch - Esperanto - Finnish - French - Galician - Georgian - German - Greek - Hebrew - Hungarian - Italian - Kabyle (Berber) - Latin - Lithuanian - Mandarin - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Serbian - Spanish - Swedish - Turkish - Ukrainian - Yiddish

[majesticcorn2000]

ketzeleh

[notaplaceofhonour]

little joys of learning Yiddish: knowing the author of the Tevye stories wrote under a pen name that’s basically “hello” (literally translated “peace upon you”)

in honor of this I shall henceforth be writing under the name Halen Welmet

[rotzaprachim]

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

[yiddish-shmues]

Yiddish Resources Masterpost

Apps and Websites

Bluebird

Clozemaster

Duolingo

Jiddisch Kurs (German)

Mango

Memrise Community Courses

Polygloss (app)

Quizlet Vocab Set (in progress)

YiddishPOP

Yiddish Quizzes

Yiddish Wordle

Classes (Free and Paid)

Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages

Yiddish Book Center Courses

Yiddishland California

YIVO

Dictionaries

Dutch Yiddish Online Dictionary

University of Kentucky Online Dictionary

Plant Name Dictionary

Yiddishland Yiddish Place Names

Films and Theatre

Digital Yiddish Theatre Project

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

Newspapers

Forverts

TamTam

PDFs:

MEGA folder

Podcasts and Radio

Proste Yiddish

Vaybertaytsh

Yiddish Voice

Literature, Archives and Recordings:

Edward Blank Vilna YIVO Online Collection

Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library

In Geveb - A Journal of Yiddish Studies

Jewish Public Library

Jewish Women's Archive

Noah Cotsen Library of Yiddish Children's Literature

Online Treasury of Yiddish Poetry

Steven Spielberg Digital Library

Wexler Oral History Project

Yiddish Audiobooks

Yiddishkayt

Yiddish Poetry with Translation

Yizkor Book Collection

Music

Archive of Yiddish Folksongs

Personal Spotify Playlist

YidLid

Yiddish Song Collection

Other

Yiddish Keyboard

[jidysz]

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

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Please use this post to gush about your favorite jewish music, music that's themed around judaism, or anything like that... This is totally not because I want to listen to more music like this but have no idea where to start. Totally not.......

[hindahoney]

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

[chaotic-archaeologist]

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?

[apollo-enthusiast]

Hey ישראבלר and jumblr! Do any of you speak Yiddish? I'm considering learning it, but I feel like I need a good reason to. It'd be really cool if one of y'all out there knows Yiddish and wants to learn Hebrew, so we could teach each other!

(If you just wanna learn Hebrew and don't know any Yiddish I'd still be glad to be your conversation partner, I'm Israeli and Hebrew is my first language.)

Either way, Shabbat shalom everyone 💙🤍

[fructidors]

falsettos in yiddish. that's the post

[council-of-beetroot]

shana tova! (Did i spell that right? (⁠;⁠;⁠;⁠・⁠_⁠・⁠))

Thank you! Even if you aren't Jewish I wish you a happy new Year and may there be many good things in store for you!

And Yeah there's multiple ways to spell it since it's transliterated from hebrew either shana tova or Shanah Tovah.

if you wanted to use polish transliteration for whatever reason it would be szana towa actually wait sometimes I do that for languages since polish (or I'll use Spanish) is more consistent in spelling than English.

Speaking of, I think I sound like I am speaking Spanish when I speak hebrew. Literally at the synagogue yesterday I was listening to everyone else pray and then my own voice and I was like I really hope no one hears how Spanish I sound.

Perhaps it's that my voice is softer in both Spanish and Hebrew than English but I don't know.

This is from the Jewish community in Kraków

[vaspider]

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

[notaplaceofhonour]

well get her out then!

[rotzaprachim]

This channel has a couple of Disney Yiddish dubs and they are SO useful

[chonkymoth]

There were many that I couldn't fit on here; Tumblr give me 20 choices for polls you cowards. Also I'd to hear any terms that aren't us/canadian/uk specific slang. pls enlighten me abt all the variations of penits <3

anywho if you vote for one w multiple pls tell me which specifically or if it's all of them !