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Nov 23, 2022, 12:13 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
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Originally Posted by divine1966
Cool. Those words in Bulgarian are exactly the same in several other Slavic languages.
My daughter took a course in Yiddish, it was very interesting. I was surprised it was offered, not a college class but through some language center. It’s sad how the language is dying. I think it will be dead at some point 
I want to take conversational Hebrew actually. They gave it at community center. I took a class that was focused on reading. I arrogantly thought that if I know three languages all with different alphabet I can learn fourth. Plus my daughter constantly teased me that I can’t read Hebrew (I am Jewish). Well it was embarrassing but I had to drop the class. I couldn’t memorize the letters lol they all look the same to me. Very embarrassing. . I was too frustrated so I quit haha |
Go easy on yourself! Hebrew is an extremely difficult language to read for those of us whose native language is based upon the Roman alphabet. Just getting into our brains the left to right is a major shift, it truly is. Bear in mind that almost all Israelis begin learning English in grade school, when their brains are young. Did you attend synagogue or temple as a small child (i.e., were you exposed to Hebrew pronunciation at a young age)?
When I was a child Jews were convinced that Yiddish was dead and there was great lament. But it remains very much alive in ultra-Orthodox communities globally and so many people have taken an interest in it and re-learned it. So maybe?
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