Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

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

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