[Ipg-smz] Yiddish

[Barbara Krasnoff]

Same here, although a generation later. My parents also spoke Yiddish when
they didn't want us to understand what they were talking about, so when my
mother asked if I wanted to go to an afterschool program to learn Yiddish,
I said yes enthusiastically. Went for three years; by the time I was fluent
enough to understand what they were saying, I was old enough so they
weren't saying it anymore...

Barbara
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 3:39 PM Esther Schindler <esther at bitranch.com>
wrote:

> My grandparents were native English speakers, but their parents spoke
> Yiddish. My father told me that his parents would speak in Yiddish “so the
> children couldn’t understand,” which meant that, of course, the children
> were motivated to learn it.
>
> But only as listeners. My father could understand what someone said in
> Yiddish (and in his youth apparently liked Yiddish theater), but couldn’t
> speak it very well.
>
> And I, of course, know only the idioms.
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