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November 10, 2015 6:27 pm at 6:27 pm #616639Isaac18Member
I need to take the NYU language (Yiddish) test for Excelsior college, does anyone know how hard the language test (12-16 credits)is, or what type of question they ask? Also, does anyone know a website that I can use to study yiddish, the issue is all the websites that I’ve seen are only for beginners, I need intermediate/advance.
November 10, 2015 7:02 pm at 7:02 pm #1112227JosephParticipantSpend a few weeks in Williamsburg and you’ll know Yiddish like a native first language speaker.
November 10, 2015 7:34 pm at 7:34 pm #1112228zahavasdadParticipantI didnt take the test, but I woulndt be surprised that the test was written by the YIVO which has a yiddish different than chassidic yiddish.
You would probably need to be able to read advanced yiddish books from authors like Shalom Alechem and Mendel Mocher Seforim.
November 10, 2015 10:32 pm at 10:32 pm #1112229technical21ParticipantI didn’t take it in English, but I took it in Hebrew and it’s probably pretty similar.
In the first part, you listen to a paragraph in the language once with the opportunity to write notes, and then you answer somewhere around 10 questions. It’s pretty basic.
The next section is a 150-word composition in the language. They give you 3 choices of topic.
The third section is to translate from English to the language, and the 4th is to translate from the language to English.
With my American background in Hebrew (though admittedly, I am pretty good with dikduk), I got a 12 out of 12. I didn’t prepare for the test at all.
November 17, 2015 9:07 pm at 9:07 pm #1112230Isaac18MemberThanks for a the responses, I have a decent conversational (albeit modern) yiddish and I understand it almost perfectly. However, reading it is an issue.
November 18, 2015 6:11 pm at 6:11 pm #1112231This name is already takenParticipantBechukoseihem Lo Seileichu
June 13, 2022 4:18 pm at 4:18 pm #2096220Josh1001ParticipantFor those that took it, how was it?
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