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Do a Google search for “learn yiddish vidlit”.
There is a beginner video there.
Thanks. Dr.P. That certainly was my laugh for today. Kind of reminds of when my daughter was in kindergarten. At that time there were 2 day schools here – one was Hebrew, the other was Yiddish. While I knew that I wanted her educated at the Hebrew school, I chose to send her to the Yiddish school for kindergarten as their teacher was far superior. I knew that we were in for an interesting year when I took her to the public library and she saw a school friend there and from across the room she yelled: Mashelah how are you? Then came the day that I was the “Shabbas Mother” which meant that I had to bring a challah and could sit and watch the class for a couple of hours. They were learning “arithmetic readiness” in Yiddish. The teacher had a felt board with cutouts of ducks on it. She took one and placed it beside another with the narration: “ein katchke v’ein katchke is tzvel katchkelech.” It still makes me laugh as I came from a Hebrew speaking background and to see a youngster speaking Yiddish struck me as odd. The sad part is that eventually the 2 schools had to amalgamate and eventually the Yiddish program was phased out.