Any good ways how to pick up Yiddish to hear a shiur

I can sell you my “College Yiddish” by Weinreich; If you Binyamin2711 are poor, I could even give it away to you as I need to clear clutter at my residence, and after what Rav Reisman said this morning about the Steipler receiving a Sefer for free, it is the right thing to do.

You could also pay a visit to the Yiddish Book center Museum in Amherst Massachusetts.

If you live/work in close proximity to a Yiddish speaking community try to locate a shiurim MP3 library. Depending on your Yiddish proficiency, start listening to either shiurim (or stories, if available) geared for children or covering a topic/subject you are very familiar with, for example Chumash. Don’t be afraid to listen to the same Shiur multiple times, but also find somebody that can translate words for you when you’re truly stumped. Good luck!

The yiddish the seniors speak is not the same yiddish as spoken in the frum velt.

I can understand the Yiddish spoken by the older people, I cannot udnerstand frum velt yiddish

(Galacian Yiddish was spoken frequently when I was younger so I heard it alot and recognize that accent)

Vol. I or II?

If you already know German and Hebrew you are 90% of the way there. If you know Hebrew and another Germanic language (such as English or Dutch), you are about 50% of the way there. You can use textbooks and occasional translations or bilingual works to fill it the rest.

There don’t appear to be any good textbooks appropriate for frum Jews though Weinreich’s (which is basically pre-World War II) and others such as Zuker’s (multivolume with audio materials but recent) reflect the secular Yiddish as it existed before World War II. Frum Jews always spoke Yiddish differently (more use of Hebrew words, and without many of the “colorful” phrases that secular Yiddishists are proud of), plus World War II shifted the demographics since the Jews speaking the northeastern (Litvish, yeshivish) dialect had a much lower chance of survival than the southeastern (Galicianer, hasidiche) dialect. It might be nice if someone produced a textbook of the “living Yiddish” as spoken today in community’s where the children grow up speaking it as a first language.

Listen yo yiddish gems. Volume i or ii. Both. At the same time, for best results.

There are many Yiddish shiurim online, Daf Yomi, Kol Haloshon, etc.

In terms of different Yiddish dialects (generalization, but basically correct), basically, in Litvish type communities and Yeshivas, Northern, or Litvish type Yiddish is spoken, while in many Chasidic communities, a Southern Yiddish is spoken.

However, note that Litvish Chasidim, like Lubavitch, Stolin, Slonim…speak a Litvish (Northern) Yiddish.

There are actually more than two Yiddish dialects, it isn’t just Northern and Southern, but those are the major divisions I understand.

Hatzlocho!

Oh, you mean the abie rotenberg song, In Di Bletele Shteit?

MHY: There was a distinct western dialect but it is largely extinct. You might find a few surviving speakers in Switzerland, Strasbourg and Amsterdam – but between assimilation, nazis and the overwhelming presence of speakers of other dialects, the western dialect vanished.

kollel wife – me too! I can translate the questions and the some chumash but they still giggle if I try to put a sentence together.

I did take Yiddish in college. I learned how to say “My name is . .” and “I live . .” but that is about all I remember.

It is a nice album, but apparently, the lyrics are a bit coarse.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/lyrics-to-ich-bin-ich-by-avraham-fried#post-525685

Learn yidish seforim ,thats how i learnt yidish.