TT – It’s the same for Yiddish. My daughter says she can’t read Yiddish books because she does not want to read words that have 29 letters in them, LOL.
What bothers me the most about Ivrit, which although my children all learn in Yiddish everyone is trilingual in my house, is that I wonder how the Ashkenazim daaven and say brochos. Do they say it with the Ashkenazi pronunciations or do they forget and just say it with the Sephardi pronunciation like Ivrit? My children learn in Yiddish but my daughters learn a lot of grammar for Loshon Hakodesh. As a matter of fact, my daughter in 10th grade just took her second major exam on grammar – end-of-year test based on what they learned the whole learn.
IS – I would bet that the Reb Ahrelech can manage at least on a bare minimum to speak LK let’s say in a government office, but they won’t spend time speaking in it. It’s not a language for conversation. Isn’t that why Aramaic was used in the Gemara?