It was absolutely wild to be able to understand much of your class clips without subtitles with no Yiddish experience lol and how much else I wouldn't think I understood but with subtitles was like "OH! That's like German too!" These classes look so fun! Also I am obsessed with the Baby Julianne shirt that is exactly the humour I strive for in funny clothes/mugs
A true delight to come across your videos whilst doing my own Yiddish study. I've been using Duolingo for about a year, but have only recently dedicated myself to the effort. Thank you SO MUCH for showing me what Worker's Circle classes are like - I've toyed around with doing a class there, and you've just made up my mind. Thank you again, just such a treasure to find. A danke!
this was such a neat learny journey! thanks for taking us along! also shout out to rugrats for being an excellent first look into jewish language and culture.
So I ended up watching all three of the Yiddish videos, and I just wanted you to know that even if you don't know what passover is, or if you've never been to a shabbat dinner, you're still "in the club". It doesn't wash off. If you're ever in trouble, fall on hard times, need help - just find a synagogue. This isn't trying to get you to believe in God, or start practicing (although you can practice without believing). Also, I don't know how old you are, and it's not the best time (or maybe it is, I don't know) but you qualify for a free, all expense paid trip to Israel from the birthright project. There are religious trips, and non-religious trips, even ones for lgbtq folks. The idea is that the best advocates for Israel are jews, and the best way to connect jews to Israel is to just show it to them. Also, there's an organization called chabad, they're an outreach group, and they're in almost every city. They're a little culty, and orthodox, but very nice, and if you wanted to go to a shabbat dinner, or experience some of the holidays (purim or sukkot are both fun) there is almost certainly a chabad in your closest decent sized city. They also provide free or extremely cheap hostel style rooms (usually) so if you wanted to go to NYC or LA to experience a Jewish community, you could call ahead and get a free place to stay that would be safe and have kosher foods (part of why they do it). I'm sure your bubbela would be shepping naches to see you reconnecting with your culture - and it is *your* culture, as much as anyone's, in an unbroken line going back 4000 years. Sorry if this was a lot, but seeing someone who had been cut off obviously care about reconnecting without saying it outright made me a little emotional.
Definitely going to continue with it!!! It took a lot of internal arguing to get myself to add this language on in the first place so I def won’t be adding anything new for quite a while
LOL If you really want to confuse yourself - learn Hebrew now! Same lettering, but pronounced differently if either learning Sephardic style, or Ashkenazi. It'll drive you meshugah! :)
I tried starting out Yiddish and Hebrew, not a good idea. I mean I see how learning Yiddish will help me with hebrew, especially reading and writing, well not much else honestly. The hardest part was getting used to Hebrew not writing vowels. But after I tackle some basic Yiddish and get used to the alphabet I will start Hebrew again.
Thank you all for going on this journey with me 🌞I'm excited to see where it takes me next!
It was absolutely wild to be able to understand much of your class clips without subtitles with no Yiddish experience lol and how much else I wouldn't think I understood but with subtitles was like "OH! That's like German too!" These classes look so fun! Also I am obsessed with the Baby Julianne shirt that is exactly the humour I strive for in funny clothes/mugs
This video was delightful. A++++ Fern content. You've made so much progress!
AAAHH thank you!! Hahaha I am so grateful whenever Fern is willing to make an appearance
A true delight to come across your videos whilst doing my own Yiddish study. I've been using Duolingo for about a year, but have only recently dedicated myself to the effort. Thank you SO MUCH for showing me what Worker's Circle classes are like - I've toyed around with doing a class there, and you've just made up my mind. Thank you again, just such a treasure to find. A danke!
I know this reply is late, but if you ended up taking a class I really hope you enjoyed it!!
The crispness of your microphone in the beginning is so satisfying 🙌 🙌
Hahaha THANK YOU! This is what most of my future videos will sound like (I also did research on sound mixing, yeehaw!)
Wow, that class is EXTREMELY informal compared to the Yivo class I am taking.
As a German I understood 90% of what he said, even thought I've never learned Yiddish so far. But it made me curious. Nice video!
Hahaha amazing!! And thank you!
I haven’t watched the video yet, but your nails, hair and makeup look fantastic.
Haha thank you so much!!!!!
this was such a neat learny journey! thanks for taking us along!
also shout out to rugrats for being an excellent first look into jewish language and culture.
Thank you for joining me on it! Rugrats supremacy !!!
I cannot believe how close Yiddish and German are! Very cool.
Isn't it interesting??? I love hearing German speakers/learners thoughts on it
Stop I don’t have time to add more languages 😭
Heheheheheh sure you do!! !
So I ended up watching all three of the Yiddish videos, and I just wanted you to know that even if you don't know what passover is, or if you've never been to a shabbat dinner, you're still "in the club". It doesn't wash off. If you're ever in trouble, fall on hard times, need help - just find a synagogue. This isn't trying to get you to believe in God, or start practicing (although you can practice without believing). Also, I don't know how old you are, and it's not the best time (or maybe it is, I don't know) but you qualify for a free, all expense paid trip to Israel from the birthright project. There are religious trips, and non-religious trips, even ones for lgbtq folks. The idea is that the best advocates for Israel are jews, and the best way to connect jews to Israel is to just show it to them. Also, there's an organization called chabad, they're an outreach group, and they're in almost every city. They're a little culty, and orthodox, but very nice, and if you wanted to go to a shabbat dinner, or experience some of the holidays (purim or sukkot are both fun) there is almost certainly a chabad in your closest decent sized city. They also provide free or extremely cheap hostel style rooms (usually) so if you wanted to go to NYC or LA to experience a Jewish community, you could call ahead and get a free place to stay that would be safe and have kosher foods (part of why they do it). I'm sure your bubbela would be shepping naches to see you reconnecting with your culture - and it is *your* culture, as much as anyone's, in an unbroken line going back 4000 years. Sorry if this was a lot, but seeing someone who had been cut off obviously care about reconnecting without saying it outright made me a little emotional.
זײער פיין! דו לערנסט זיך ווייַטער?
the ending?? LOLOL
Great progress - are you going to keep going with Yiddish or move to something new?
Definitely going to continue with it!!! It took a lot of internal arguing to get myself to add this language on in the first place so I def won’t be adding anything new for quite a while
LOL If you really want to confuse yourself - learn Hebrew now! Same lettering, but pronounced differently if either learning Sephardic style, or Ashkenazi. It'll drive you meshugah! :)
I tried starting out Yiddish and Hebrew, not a good idea. I mean I see how learning Yiddish will help me with hebrew, especially reading and writing, well not much else honestly. The hardest part was getting used to Hebrew not writing vowels. But after I tackle some basic Yiddish and get used to the alphabet I will start Hebrew again.
Nobody says they're doing gut.
It's always boruch hashem.
Just saying gut, a dank, is very academic but not very Jewish.