Finally got that microphone everyone has been telling me to get!!! So I hope the audio in this video is much better than normal, please let me know in the comments if there is a problem with it.

@AvrahamYairStern

2 жыл бұрын

It sounds great, I like the background music too!

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern Thank you, that is great to know!

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991

2 жыл бұрын

It was very clear in this video, bardzo dobrze!

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz991 very good to finally get positive comments about my audio!

@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture

Жыл бұрын

Mazel Tov! Sounded great. I’m a new subscriber and this video just came up on my feed.

My grandparents all grew up speaking Yiddish but never passed it down to their children. I’m working on reconnecting with the Litvak dialect of Yiddish.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Litvak is the coolest dialect

Tenth! The situation with Jewish Autonomous Oblast is really bizarre. The History Hustle channel made a cool video about it.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I might check it out, it definitely is one of the strangest attempt at forging a Jewish state outside of thr homeland

This video is very informative, so much better than the previous video on Yiddish!

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Wait until the Yiddish version is released!

@theklorg305

Жыл бұрын

Love your stuff. Wish Che had it on this channel too.

Ima native German, and this really sounded like some mixture of a Bavarian dialect, and what you'd expect to hear in the 19th century. Feels like a journey into the past o.O

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I've heard the same from other German speakers, I've also heard that "it sounds funny" too, is this true?

@insertcringe2220

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages I mean, some could consider it funny, and it does have an odd sound. To me it's just so unique, because you really only see/read such things in old letters or speeches now a days, and as a history nerd, I of course find this very interesting ^^

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@insertcringe2220 I love Yiddish, it sounds great. I'm glad to see have the same view from a Deutsch speaker's perspective

I'd like to hear Polish Yiddish dialect, how much of it was influenced by Polish itself.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Poylish פויליש is what the dialect is called, it's one of the main dialects

@KostyaT

Жыл бұрын

All Eastern Yiddish dialects have about 10% Slavic vocabulary, mostly from Polish, Ukrainian, and Belarusian. The Polish dialect of Yiddish is not defined by its interaction with the Polish language, it is more so just a geographical designation. I think it has about the same Slavic component as all other dialects of Eastern Yiddish. (Western Yiddish was spoken in Germany, France, and Switzerland, and is now only spoken by maybe a few dozen speakers...)

1:50 It seems so rare to find people showing the true map of Israel. People always seem to show the borders from 55 years ago.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Well you know I wouldn't want to show an incorrect map. This is the true map!

@ThiccPhoenix

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Yes De facto > de jure

It is wonderful to see a video on Yiddish. One person glaringly missing in your comments on Yiddish literature: I.B. Singer, the Novel Laureate. Than k you for highlighting the language I am now studying on with Duolingo and reacquiring.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Reäcquiring? Did you grow up speaking Yiddish?

@dulcineia9039

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Re: reacquiring Yiddish. Not exactly. As a child, I lived in a home that included my Yiddish-speaking grandparents, the perfect situation for a heritage speaker, except that the older generations wanted to have totally American children and they only spoke to each other in Yiddish, when they didn’t want us children to understand. I listened and understood a lot, but I never spoke. When I started to study Yiddish with Duolingo, I found I knew most of the beginning vocabulary once it was presented. If you had asked me, for example, to say “wall” in Yiddish, I couldn’t do it, but when the program said it was “vant ” I knew it, I reacquired it.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@dulcineia9039 That's really interesting, I like 'secret languages' designed to stop the children from understanding, me and my girlfriend are studying a secret language for that purpose, but it's annoying when the kids get interested in languages later on! It is sad how many languages have died out because parents or grandparents decided they wanted their children to fully assimilate, I think mixed culture is best, assimilate outside the house, keep original culture inside, that way you can preserve immigrant languages and fit in with the outside society.

I thank you for latching on to Yiddish after I mentioned it. I am truly sorry that I don't hear it anymore. Part of the reason may be my age and my resulting disconnection from most everything.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

This is an old video but thank you anyway. You might want to check it out, there's a course on Duolingo that's surprisingly good.

As a very young child in Germany, I knew several adults that spoke Yiddish. Among others our Family Doctor, Dr Pillsticker. I have no idea if that Name is spelled properly. Then one day they were gone. Including the Doctor. Later, in Canada, I found that a lot of the business owners, especially clothing stores, were Jewish and spoke Yiddish. Since I spoke High German an a couple of regional dialects, it didn't take long to converse in Yiddish as well.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

It's really sad what happened. As soon as you said "they were gone", I felt it in my heart what you mean. Never forget. Never again (יהי זכרם ברוך)

דו האַסט געמאַכט אַ שיינעם װידעאָ, מײַן טײַערע חבר!

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

איך דאַנקען דיר זייער פיל פֿאַר דעם!

I also recommend the web series YidLife Crisis, it's a funny web series in Yiddish

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

I might check this out at some point, sounds interesting

Fun fact: James Cagney was a fluent speaker of Yiddish and Louis Armstrong was conversant in Yiddish.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know about James Cagney, that's interesting

2:14 as a B1 dutch speaker i understood ~90% of words and 100% from context

@CheLanguages

5 ай бұрын

Wow, awesome!

Small correction: the Jewish Autonomous Region was formed in the USSR not after the WW2 but before, in 1934, long before the foundation of the modern Israel state.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Not that long before really but still, thank you for the correction! I was always taught that it was the Soviet's reaction to Zionism and that they tried to encourage Jews to move there instead, I didn't realize it existed earlier!

@sergeypiano

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages well, Zionism appeared not even in the 20th century, so right, it was a Soviet attempt to give the movement a desirable direction.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Well yes, it existed for much longer, but the movement was so big by the 1920s-40s that I believe the Soviets were worried about Russia and Ukraine's very large Jewish population all just leaving. Unless I am mistaken

@sergeypiano

Жыл бұрын

​@@CheLanguages That's a slight stretch I'm afraid. The Russian-Soviet Jews were for a considerable part very fond of the Revolution since the Pale of settlement was abolished by it and they could finally have equal rights and live anywhere in the country, so there was no urgency to leave for Palestine then. The idea that the Soviet Jews should have their own home like, say, Tatars do was announced already in 1925 and first there were four Jewish districts (one level lower than Oblast) established in Crimea and the Ukraine in 1925-27, with Jewish collective farms that existed into 1950s. But in 1928 the idea was dropped in favour of the Far Eastern project and the already in that year the land there was allotted for Jewish development. There was rather little Antisemitism in Soviet Russia then so I'm not sure that there were grounds to strongly fear a large loss of Jewish population to emigration to Palestine. The USSR was even one of the main voters for Israel's creation in 1948. But right thereafter the Anti-semitism rose very considerably, though that is a very different story.

Of the languages you've done that I've seen, thus far, this is the one I understood a bit of... knowing some German, as I do. Perhpas I should put this on my to learn list... even though I'm not Jewish!🤔🙂

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I'd definitely recommend! I've been doing lots of Yiddish lately and I'm starting to get quite conversational in it, it's super easy trust me!

@toranshaw4029

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages that's good to know, ta! 🙂

I was wondering if the Yiddish learning discord is still running. I can’t find it in the description.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

I rejoined it last month and it was still running, though I'd actually found a better Yiddish learning server too

@yellowlightsyndrome9959

Жыл бұрын

Oh cool! Do you have the link?

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@yellowlightsyndrome9959 sadly, I got rid of Discord because it's a toxic place. I forgot the name of the server but if you search up "Yiddish Discord Server" on Google, it was one of the first ones

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@yellowlightsyndrome9959 nvm I found it, it's called דאס יידישע הארץ

@yellowlightsyndrome9959

Жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages found it! Thanks so much!

אני אוהב את שפת היידיש, אבל תמיד עברית היא יותר מעולה

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

כן אני מסכים, עברית היא השפה האהוב עליי

@shpilbass5743

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages האהובה* שפה זה נקבה

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@shpilbass5743 תודה אחי, אני עדיין לומד כל יום

@shpilbass5743

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages שכוייח

@sprekend4131

2 жыл бұрын

איך טראַכט ניט אַז די העברעישע שפּראַך איז בעסער. לשון קודישע װערטער זענען שװער.

I am one of those with a knowledge but do not use it everyday.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Cool!

YIVO Yiddish is also known as Klal Yiddish, and is of course the superior dialect. I'll be cold in the ground before I pronounce a vav as an i!

@CheLanguages

Ай бұрын

HAHAHA same here, I really don't like the Chassidishe pronunciation with vav as "i" not "u", amongst other things

I thought Jiddisch was a creol or something lol

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Well, kinda. It's its own language but the reason it exists is because of Jewish slaves taken from Israel and forced to be worked in the Germania province of the Roman Empire, so it kind of arose as a creol

זייער שיין צו זען, א ווידעא אין יידיש👍🏻

@CheLanguages

10 ай бұрын

אָבער די ווידעא איז נישט אויף ייִדיש

i like how "goy" is there

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Hey, it's a loanword used in English I guess

Pity Yidish wasn't made the official language of Israel.

@CheLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Well I don't think it should be the official language, but it should be recognized and protected (which it is)

Gross.

@AvrahamYairStern

2 жыл бұрын

Silence, Catholic

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Why?

@huguesdepayens807

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheLanguages Because Jews.

@huguesdepayens807

2 жыл бұрын

@@AvrahamYairStern I'm an athiest dumbass.

@CheLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@huguesdepayens807 no Antisemitism on this channel please