#learning Yiddish

[hal-5000]

i really want to learn yiddish!!

do y’all have any good resource recommendations of the non duolingo variety?

[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

[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

[wanderinghedgehog]

I love where you’re learning a language and a sentence pops into your mind in the language you’re learning instead of your first language. It’s like teaser fluency. Your brain is like “If you think this is cool, just wait until you can conjugate verbs with any efficiency.”

[ind1g3n0us-lev1t3]

אני שמח 😀

[majesticcorn2000]

ketzeleh

[toonophiliac]

IT IS NOT KOSHER TO EAT A PIG

[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

[incorrect-losers]

Richie: Hey wanna be friends?!

Stan: No hablo inglés

Richie: ¡¿Hablas español?! ¡Yo también! ¡Ah! ¿De dónde eres? ¿Te gustan las siestas?

Stan: I don't speak Spanish, either

Richie *laughing*: You’re funny

[un-ionizetheradlab]

Is the Hebrew and Yiddish "r" like the French "r"?

Jumblr- do any of you that speak Hebrew or Yiddish and trill r’s in your throat have tips for learning to roll r’s like they do in Spanish or Italian?

I’ve been trying for literal years and do not understand. I can only do the uvular trill.

[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

[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.......

[rotzaprachim]

wikipedia is available in both Yiddish and Ladino!

[jidysz]

Look what a treasure I got!!

It's the biggest Yiddish-Polish dictionary ever published! Almost 2000 pages! 😁

[hindahoney]

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

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

Respect to Sam for creating every Christmas one-shot characters very much Jewish (remember Bundlestein Sprucenberg from "The Night Before Critmas ?") and making lots of jokes about it.

The Yiddish/German joke made me laugh so much