Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish

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You're not idiot, of course. You can serve up a mean s'il vous plait in a French bistro, live la vida loca for a night of margaritas, and manage a sayonara! after sushi, sake, and karaoke. But when it comes to throwing around a little Yiddish, you feel like a total nebbish! Don't throw your hands in a helpless "Oy, vey" just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish is your guide to this unique tongue, whether you're tackling rules of grammar or just throwing around some key phrases so you sound a little less goyish. In this Complete Idiot's Guide you get a fascinating explanation of how and why Yiddish developed, an easy introduction to the Yiddish alphabet, as well as the distinctive sound of Yiddish, and all the Yiddish you'll need for communicating with family and friends or for bargain-hunting on New York's Lower East Side. This book contains a treasury of Yiddish words and phrases for every occasion.

What Customers Say About Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish:

The book came so fast I could not believe it and it was in perfect condition

While searching for a book that explains the Yiddish language for the common person, I came across this book and what a book it is. It entertains and explains not only the language but also the people, places and circumstances that shows how Yiddish came to be. There are colorful examples, jokes and sayings to make anyone laugh. I found this to be quite an entertaining book, even if you have little interest in Yiddish.

It's a series - not to worry.Say, there's a "Baby Names for Dummies", so what's to kvetch. Once in a while, she'd like you to call, too, or at least write. MY name wasn't in the book, was yours. It's your mother you should be talking to, not us. So, what could it hurt. Your finger, it's broken, is it.

we were disappointed with the content and glossary of this book.it was fun to skim and read over, but it didn't offer us much of an indept exposure to the most common terms.we found that most of the words we looked up and were interested in just weren't there.otherwise, it is easy to read and laid out in an interesting format for skimming.

Sheva Zucker's Yiddish - A Textbook for Beginners, Vol. Remember, many in the first generations were literate in Yiddish and Hebrew, not to mention Polish or Russian, and learned English on top of that.

However, had I known that it was all transliteration (and not particularly well done), I wouldn't have bought it. OK, a little smaltzy, but a mildly fun trip into the beginnings of the Yiddish culture/language adventure.

The experience of several generations of American Jews dragged to the Bimah seems to have poisoned everyone's minds about the aleph bet difficulties - small and easily surmounted. Really, Hebrew letters and a few creative Yiddish fixes for vowel sounds and the right to left business is not that big a deal.

You can do it in two weeks starting from scratch, or less. Also lots of typos both in the text and the transliterations; fortunately I bought a used copy and an editorial fanatic had been through it with a sharp pencil and equally sharp comments.

1 or Zuckerman and Herbst's Learning Yiddish in Easy Stages are better, if you really want to learn.