shalom and hello to all my dear and beloved comrades .❤

This is a question for german speaking comrades.

I have a question about the different and similarities between yiddish and german languages .

vi enlekh zenen di beyde shprakhn ?

(How similar are the two languages?)

es iz kampatabal mit daytsh shprakh ?

(Is it compatible with German language?)

aoyb a ashkhnzisher id redt tsu dir aoyf eydish ken ir das farshteyn ?

(if a Ashkenazi Jew speaks to you in yiddish can you understand it ?)

  • Comrade_Faust@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    I’m not a native German speaker, but I’ve studied it for years. I didn’t even need the English to understand what you were saying. (I’ve also done a small amount of Yiddish on Duolingo to boot.)

    Yiddish is an interesting one for me. I remember seeing a news broadcast (sadly Israeli) and I not only understood the gist of it, it genuinely sounded like German with a distinct accent, minus the occasional Hebrew word. I pretty much understood the entire thing.

    That said, I’ve found other Yiddish videos where the people speak in such a way that it was a lot harder for me to understand.