I was listening to someone by the shloshim of Rav Elya Svei ZT”L. He was trying to speak Yiddish but kept saying “from” instead of “fun”. I hope he was still yotzei the mitzvah of speaking Yiddish.
They translated the Torah into 70 languages. Why didn’t they translate it into Yiddish and tell everyone to learn Yiddish?
American and Israeli Yiddish speakers speak a completely different type of Yiddish. And even veteran Yiddish speaker have trouble translating Rav Levi Yitzchok’s “Gutt fun Avrohom”. Chanoch lenaar al pi darko means teaching people in the language they are familiar with, in the language in which they think. Why make Torah harder for no reason? Leave Yiddish to the Bundists the way we left ksav ivri for the Samaritans.