Mayn glik hob ikh gevunen ven ikh hob dikh gefunen

[sovay]

I sang this afternoon at a synagogue in Newton and it could have gone a lot worse.

(There are ways in which it could also have gone better, but that's not the point, T. Witt.)

There will be more of this.

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[aedifica]

I don't, but I know German and that lets me make informed guesses. :-) I'd like to learn some Yiddish sometime, though. (It's on my long mental list of "things that would be neat to do/learn".)

P.S. The German for the translation I put down is "Mein Glück hab' ich gewonnen wenn ich hab' dich gefunden," and W is pronounced like an English V. You can see why I was able to guess!

[sovay]

I'd like to learn some Yiddish sometime, though. (It's on my long mental list of "things that would be neat to do/learn".)

I crash-taught myself Yiddish my senior year at Brandeis while simultaneously teaching myself German. I suspect it destroyed any chance I had at distinguishing vocabulary between the two languages (Hebrew derivations aside) and God help my accent, but I reassure myself with the pipe dream that it replicates something about being a native speaker.

[aedifica]

...a native speaker of which language?

(But still: cool!)

[sovay]

...a native speaker of which language?

Oh, Yiddish, in German-speaking areas: somewhere it would have been reasonable to learn both languages at once. I said it was a pipe dream.

I'm not fluent, but it makes me happy.