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Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

From:Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 22, 2000, 7:26
On 21 Aug, callanish wrote:


>I actually know very little about Yiddish, though it seems like a really >interesting language from what I've read. I'd love to get a "teach yourself >yiddish" type of book, but I've never found one :-( >I would very much like to learn more about it. >
You might try: College Yiddish: An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture by Uriel Weinreich. My copy is from 1976, but I just checked Amazon and they are still offering it (Price: $35). Speaking of Yiddish, it is alive and well among certain sectors of the Israeli population. In fact, on occasion, I have given interesting multi-lingual speech therapy sessions involving Yiddish: Mother - Me: English Mother - Child: Yiddish Me - Child: Hebrew And if we all talk at once? (Then it gets _real_ interesting! ;-) ) Dan Sulani -------------------------------------------------------------------- likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a. A word is an awesome thing.