Learning Yiddish
Michael Rosen is joined by his Yiddish teacher, Tamara Micner. They chat about where the language came from, what it's like to learn and what Michael is like in class.
Michael Rosen is learning Yiddish. Every Sunday, he joins other adults in an evening class, conjugating verbs and practising rhymes.
For this episode of Word of Mouth, he invites his teacher, Tamara Micner, to join him in the studio. The pair have fun swapping family stories and sharing how they were first exposed to Yiddish. Tamara explains where the language came from and how it's evolved, and they discuss its connections to English. We also hear what Michael is like in class as a new learner, as he wraps his head around the pronunciation and patterns of this language which links him to his family history.
Producer: Eliza Lomas, 91热爆 Audio in Bristol.
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