Parents who insist on teaching their kids yiddish are beating a dead horse, are waisting their childrens time, and are guilty of bittul Torah in the name of warped values. I was force fed yiddish for two years during what should have been a formative period at the begining of elementary school. Instead of learning real Yiddiskeit, ie- Hashem loves you and gave us tbe Torah to have a relationship with him and get the most out of our short stay here, we learned only the first perek of Bereishis in yiddish.I didnt learn from perek beis through the end of Lech Lecha until age eighteen, on my own in yeshiva.
There are no Roshonim or Achronim written in yiddish. The Halacha sefarim and poskim are not in yiddish. If you are fluent in modern ivrit, they are open books to you (you must still excert ameilus).Yiddish will not help to learn these fundamentals.
There are many people in the US who are deeply uncomfortable with the fact that Israel is where the future of the Jewish people is.Teaching yiddish to ones children in 2017 is a symptom of this sad reality.
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