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Become the bubbe you always dreamed of being ❣️ Some phrases to get you started:
Chutzpah - a Yiddish classic, "panache", guts, grit, spunk
Schlep - also a classic, meaning to lug a bunch of stuff around
Kvetch - to whine / complain. This is very important.
Schmooze - Being able to schmooze is the most important life skill: making chit chat and buttering people up along the way.
Mishegas - Craziness. It's very helpful to blame everything on mishegas...
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@sabrinamovitz
Feb 23, 2024
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@solomonki
I started learning Yiddish about 4 years ago – my nana spoke it as a child – and gathered some pretty good resources (pretty limited in terms of actual learning material and not just lists of words/phrases) but fell out of it after getting a basic listening and speaking level (kinda like simple sentences at a time). Would love to pick it back up if i had a little group of other learners to practice / bounce stuff off of! Lmk if interested! zay gezunt!
Feb 26, 2024
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@solomonki
izo cool I’m down to chat and see if we can get a little something going! where’s best to DM?
Mar 1, 2024
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@edna
Shvitz - sweat "Oh man i'm shvitzing" or going for a shvitz- going to a sauna or bath house Probably my most used yiddish word
Feb 23, 2024
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@sabrinamovitz
edna thank you for bringing this up, i'm very frequent schvitzer idk how i forgot
Feb 23, 2024
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@solomonki
edna use it all the time when talking to my dad 🧖‍♂️
Feb 26, 2024
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@babyboybrida
Kvell = rejoice Not Jewish but a language head
Feb 23, 2024
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@sabrinamovitz
babyboybrida this is so true
Feb 23, 2024
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@mikefeldman
Schmutz - dirt or similar unpleasant substance. “Looks like you have a little schmutz on your face from eating that bagel”
Feb 23, 2024
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@sabrinamovitz
mikefeldman A++++
Feb 23, 2024
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