Reply To: Good ways to go about learning Yiddish

I really don’t understand the issue. Speak Yiddish, speak Avrit, speak both or speak neither. Why the need to delegitamize the other? However, Yiddish does have one thing in common with Ivrit. Neither is holy. Yiddish was born out of Haifa. When medieval Jews were expelled from German states, they were welcomed by the Polish kings. The Jews accepted the invite but they were still Germans. Even back then they considered Slavs to be savages snd refused to speak Polish. They continued to speak their native German which developed into Yiddish