Have you ever wanted to learn Yiddish? You’re in luck. Here’s 9 reasons to learn Yiddish and some resources to get you started.

My Story

I’ve never learnt Yiddish. I know very little about the language.

But after teaming up with Moshe Sherizen, the author of The Easy-Shmeezy Guide to Yiddish, for this video, I do now know a few things, including that there’s lots of fun slang words!

Resources

The Easy-Shmeezy Guide to Yiddish – Moshe himself has this great resource to get you started with Yiddish. Woop!

Yiddish.biz – a good range of materials to get you started and take you as far as lower-intermediate with the language.

Memrise – this thorough Memrise course includes audio – yay!

Yiddish Academy – some resources here to get you started for a small fee.

9 Reasons to Learn Yiddish