"Erste person, ich tanz, ich singe, ich schreib, ich lehen". Funny how it almost completely corresponds to Dutch: eerste persoon (first person), ik dans (I dance), ik zing (I sing), ik schrijf (I write), ik lees (I read). Some sentences sound like I am listening to someone who speaks German with a strong southern German accent. If it wasn't written in the old Hebrew alphabet it would even 'look' similar to Dutch and even more so to German, of course. Such a beautiful language.
I understand everything..because I am from Austria..and yiddish sounds just like an austrian dialect..written in hebrew letters. I love it :) but hebrew..I love even more ;)
+mela nie That's awesome! I'm learning German, therefore I can understand so much of what he says also. Are you familiar with Pennsylvania German? Because With my level of German, it's hard for me to understand Pennsylvania German because I think the pronunciation is much different. I always wonder how hard it would be for German speakers to understand Pennsylvania German
This is 99% the same as German: Ich rede (I talk) Du redest (You talk) Er/sie/es redet (he/she/it talks) Wir reden (We talk) Ihr redet (You talk) Sie reden (They talk) German does distinguish between "reden" ("to talk") and "sprechen" ("to speak"), but that distinction seems to have been lost in Yiddish. German "sprechen" is strong, so the conjugation is slightly more involved: Ich spreche Du sprichst Er/sie/es spricht Wir sprechen Ihr sprecht Sie sprechen
"sound like I am listening to someone who speaks German with a strong southern German accent" Well, Yiddish is based on Medieval High German and is much like Bavarian, Swiss and Austrian forms of German. Incidentally though, it is in the same linguistic family as English and Dutch (west Germanic).
I hope someone will see this ten years on lol. I'm used to Yiddish being in Hebrew (which I can read fine) but what's these different characters he's using? strange font or different characters entirely? very confused
How about one week? Basically, cursive Hebrew script. Easier to write than the standard form you've seen in books, trust me. With Modern Hebrew at least, Israelis write using these letters but type/read texts using the form you're used to. It's like English cursive, where many people used to write like that ( when they used to teach cursive in schools, lol) but books were never in cursive. And, like English cursive, most of the letters aren't too dissimilar to what they're based from. I personally didn't know Yiddish adopted this script, that was new for me.
He's writing in Hebrew script lol. Hebrew has a block form and a cursive form. He's writing in cursive form, all Yiddish is written in cursive form but printed in block form. Modern Hebrew is written the way he is writing as well.
"Erste person, ich tanz, ich singe, ich schreib, ich lehen". Funny how it almost completely corresponds to Dutch: eerste persoon (first person), ik dans (I dance), ik zing (I sing), ik schrijf (I write), ik lees (I read). Some sentences sound like I am listening to someone who speaks German with a strong southern German accent. If it wasn't written in the old Hebrew alphabet it would even 'look' similar to Dutch and even more so to German, of course. Such a beautiful language.
I understand everything..because I am from Austria..and yiddish sounds just like an austrian dialect..written in hebrew letters. I love it :) but hebrew..I love even more ;)
+mela nie That's awesome! I'm learning German, therefore I can understand so much of what he says also. Are you familiar with Pennsylvania German? Because With my level of German, it's hard for me to understand Pennsylvania German because I think the pronunciation is much different. I always wonder how hard it would be for German speakers to understand Pennsylvania German
I never heard about it. But I will check it out and tell you afteresrds
@@saffron1006 Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect.
The Amish mainly come from Switzerland and Germany, so it's not straight Deutsch.
Yiddish must be the gateway to German and Russian.
Great vids.
This is 99% the same as German:
Ich rede (I talk)
Du redest (You talk)
Er/sie/es redet (he/she/it talks)
Wir reden (We talk)
Ihr redet (You talk)
Sie reden (They talk)
German does distinguish between "reden" ("to talk") and "sprechen" ("to speak"), but that distinction seems to have been lost in Yiddish. German "sprechen" is strong, so the conjugation is slightly more involved:
Ich spreche
Du sprichst
Er/sie/es spricht
Wir sprechen
Ihr sprecht
Sie sprechen
"sound like I am listening to someone who speaks German with a strong southern German accent"
Well, Yiddish is based on Medieval High German and is much like Bavarian, Swiss and Austrian forms of German. Incidentally though, it is in the same linguistic family as English and Dutch (west Germanic).
Thanx for making the videos.
Is yiddish written with the hebrew alphabet?
7 years late but yea it is
He's using cursive Yiddish. Yiddish adopted a cursive form for writing. Modern Hebrew adopted this cursive writing for Hebrew.
@@rennyskiathitis8178 Can't read a cursive :(
I hope someone will see this ten years on lol. I'm used to Yiddish being in Hebrew (which I can read fine) but what's these different characters he's using? strange font or different characters entirely? very confused
How about one week? Basically, cursive Hebrew script. Easier to write than the standard form you've seen in books, trust me. With Modern Hebrew at least, Israelis write using these letters but type/read texts using the form you're used to. It's like English cursive, where many people used to write like that ( when they used to teach cursive in schools, lol) but books were never in cursive. And, like English cursive, most of the letters aren't too dissimilar to what they're based from. I personally didn't know Yiddish adopted this script, that was new for me.
He's writing in Hebrew script lol. Hebrew has a block form and a cursive form. He's writing in cursive form, all Yiddish is written in cursive form but printed in block form. Modern Hebrew is written the way he is writing as well.
Yop really sounds like german. tanzen, singen, schreiben, lesen. ich du er/sie/es wir ihr Sie.... so close!