Actually, I'm nowhere near Orthodox, but I'm fairly decent at Yiddish, and my Hebrew is...I can...it's...
...Okay, fine; I only know both languages because I went to Jewish elementary and high school, but they did such a bad job teaching them to us that, despite having known Hebrew longer, I can barely formulate a proper sentence. I went to Israel twice, and both times had almost no idea what was going on around me. The edamacashon system prevails again!
My Yiddish is rusty since I graduated nearly two years ago, but it's much better. I can almost have a conversation with someone speaking German. ^^ My high school is, I believe, the only one in the entire province that still teaches Yiddish, and wouldn't you know it, just this year they cut back on it.
Yay for random rants totally unrelated to the actual topic of the entry. 8D
Also hi, I don't think I've been here before. *shrugs and offers a spicecake*
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Date: 2008-11-24 04:39 am (UTC)...Okay, fine; I only know both languages because I went to Jewish elementary and high school, but they did such a bad job teaching them to us that, despite having known Hebrew longer, I can barely formulate a proper sentence. I went to Israel twice, and both times had almost no idea what was going on around me. The edamacashon system prevails again!
My Yiddish is rusty since I graduated nearly two years ago, but it's much better. I can almost have a conversation with someone speaking German. ^^ My high school is, I believe, the only one in the entire province that still teaches Yiddish, and wouldn't you know it, just this year they cut back on it.
Yay for random rants totally unrelated to the actual topic of the entry. 8D
Also hi, I don't think I've been here before. *shrugs and offers a spicecake*
~Psychic