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shlishi – I hate to break it to you, but outside of Eretz Yisroel, certain parts of America, certain parts of the UK and Antwerp very few yidden actually speak yiddish. It cannot demonstrate ‘total achdus’ when pretty much no sephardim speak it and never did. I once asked the Mashgiach of Gateshead Yeshive why the top 2 shiurim are given in yiddish, despite the fact that more than 70% of the Talmidim do not speak it. He replied “Shiur daled is given in yiddish because the Rosh Yeshiva’s shiur is. The Rosh Yeshiva’s is because his father’s was. His father’s was because he couldn’t speak English properly.”