Hey, guys.
I’m not learning yiddish, nor am I jewish. But I recently remembered this song, called “Hulyet, hulyet, kinderlekh” (pardon if that’s not the correct way to write it) and wanted to share it with you. I really like this version, as it kinda gives goosebumps.
I also know the version by Zupfgeigenhansel, too.
Good stuff!
I feel that I can understand roughly 60-70% of that song and also can sing along to it pretty well. The sounds yiddish speakers make are no challenge for me. But I speak German, Danish, Japanese and English, so I got a lot of tongue-twisting practice.
60-70% sounds about right! Yiddish is (if i remember correctly) about 50-60% germanic, with 15-20% loshn koydesh, and the rest is a mishmash of other languages (some stuff from slavic languages, for example).