By Dr. Yvette Alt Miller/aish.com (printed with permission) | May 06, 2021
Duolingo, the popular language-learning app with a global following, recently made an exciting announcement: Users can now learn Yiddish, choosing to study Yiddish as little as five minutes a day, with fun lessons sent to their phones.
I signed up for the course and loved hearing some of the initial Yiddish sentences. The first lesson featured Yiddish words that sounded much like English: “Mom, a balloon!” a cartoon girl with blue hair said in my first session (Mama, ah balon); a boy with bright orange hair offered to sell a zebra for a dollar (Ay dolar for un zebra). It was zany and fun; I was hooked.
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