Reply To: Good ways to go about learning Yiddish

Thank you to all for the suggestions about ways to learn Yiddish. I live several hours from New York City, so unfortunately I will not be able to take advantage of in-person resources there. The suggestion of children’s books is one I hadn’t even thought of! I will see if Rosetta Stone offers anything too, as was also suggested. I didn’t realize that there was a Complete Idiot’s Guide that would be relevant, but I guess that’s not surprising since they seem to have one for everything! Although I would still have to travel some distance to the nearest big city of Philadelphia, I may see if there are any Yiddish language courses there somewhere, as someone else recommended. I would love to get my feet wet with a book of idiom and expressions — I have a very tiny expression book at present, and it is heart-warming for me to look through it again and again to pick out the ones that my MomMom used to say. A sefer teaching the basics of Yiddish is another recommendation that may really help me build some kind of language base. The grammar book suggestion would no doubt be very helpful in that regard as well. All great ideas — many thank yous!