skygiants

When I was a kid I used to be wildly jealous of my Israeli cousins, who spoke fluent Hebrew and English - more for the general concept of bilingualism because I desperately wanted to speak any other language fluently, but is probably part of the reason I tried (and failed) to learn Hebrew in college. Yiddish never even occurred to me as a a relevant option until I happened by chance to read a book on NYC Yiddish theater, and then I SUDDENLY CARED and didn't really know why - it's very weird, because everything I've read since as I learned more about the language and the history is like 'oh, OK, this makes sense, logically these are things that would Romantically Appeal To Me and that's why I care' except I didn't know it then, yet, at the time when I started caring.

(And then there's the Hannah letters, and she is trying SO HARD to learn Hebrew while casually peppering cute jokesy Yiddish in, and I have some feelings about that too.)

tl;dr likewise anyway if you do ever feel like leaning Yiddish my classes roundabout here have been fun and inexpensive.