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Introducing Vertl, our Yiddish version of the world s hottest word game – The Forward

Yiddish Is a Language of Faith - Meir Y Soloveichik, Commentary Magazine

Yiddish Is a Language of Faith Jewish Commentary Early in 2021, a niche online argument made its way onto the front page of the Wall Street Journal, complete with a catchy headline: “Designing a Flag for Yiddish Takes Chutzpah.” The cause of the disagreement was the announcement by Duolingo, a website for learning languages, that it would release a course for Yiddish. Usually, the symbol for a language would be the flag of its home country: France, Italy, Japan. Yiddish, however, was a language of exile; the Israeli flag would represent Hebrew, not Yiddish. What, then, should serve as its symbol? Suggestions abounded, including that the website should “just put a bagel on it,” or that it should feature a “fiddler on a roof.”

The Woman Behind Duolingo s New Yiddish Course

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.

The Woman behind Duolingo s New Yiddish Course

The Woman behind Duolingo s New Yiddish Course
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April 22: Yiddish on Duolingo: How it came to be – The Forward

April 22: Yiddish on Duolingo: How it came to be – The Forward
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