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Duolingo is adding Yiddish courses. Can you plan? |
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Learn Bissel, Yiddish or more with Duolingo's new course coming in April.Duolingo, a popular language learning platform, is about to launch a Yiddish course for English speakers and I'm learning.Launching on April 6, this course guides students through speaking, reading and writing a highly expressive language that originates from the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.Ed Begley Jr. was featured in Christoper Guest's 2003 comedy A Mighty Wind.Don't know the bupkes about Yiddish? It mixes old German, Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic languages and has satirical humor, pathos and history. Although it is still discussed in most Jewish neighborhoods in places like New York.
But it also received broader attention in SLOT both the language and the strong cultural traditions of literature, poetry, music, film and theater.Yiddish enthusiasts can attend club meetings, meetings, and summer festivals and listen to radio programs and podcasts like Yiddish Voice and Vaybertaytsh.There are Yiddish, religious and class newspapers and magazines. Study streaming in Yiddish for studying the sacred ancient Jewish texts.Some still view Yiddish as a language reserved for the older generation. But also equally modern Many Yiddish words have been introduced into everyday English and have made their way into programs such as Girls, Seinfeld, and Jeopardy, thanks to my mother, the Texas bred daughter of a Russian Jewish immigrant.
I grew up thinking "oy" was another English word for "ugh" and the rest of the neighborhood "schlepped" "schvitzed" "potchked" and "schmoozed" as my family did.The Duolingo course covers everything from vocabulary and grammar to key cultural phrases, connecting participants with the tachlis (brass tacks) of Yiddish culture.Workers Circle and other sites also offer online classes. But it's a big deal that a platform with more than 300 million users is included in the catalog.Yiddish enters law and order.Duolingo is available for free on iOS, Android, and on the web, with an upgrade to Duolingo Plus for $ 7 per month, offering ad-free lessons, plus offline access to lessons and content, and the ability to track your progress.
The lessons last about five minutes and teach the language through a simple interface and short exercises like video games.The five-year Yiddish course in the making of the company tapped volunteer contributors, including Meena Lifshe Viswanath, a civil engineer who grew up speaking Yiddish at home and with his aunt as an editor. The team also features Gen-Zers inspired by personal heritage to help Yiddish grow.The contributors were heavily debated as to what core Yiddish languages should be taught in Duolingo, even asking for public opinion on how the language should be pronounced in the new curriculum. Ultimately, they decided to use a dialect that was prevalent among Hungarian Jews, especially in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn.
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This particular focus on Yiddish shows the desire to teach the living breathing language, as it is not found in the halls of the academy. But it's on the streets of Brooklyn, London, Antwerp and more, ”said Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone, New York - founder of Tech Tribe, a community for Jews in technology and digital media. He was not involved in this course.Lightstone said he was "thrilled" that Duolingo offered a Yiddish course, as Jews and non-Jews were drawn to both as a language that was colorful and sounding distinctive and connected to history. “Yiddish languages open up a world of inspiring and profound influence teachings in their native language,” he said.Duolingo offers a total of 100 courses in nearly 40 languages, from the most spoken to the less spoken languages such as Hawaiian, Navajo, Gaelic, Scottish and now Yiddish. |
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