This video is about learning language through music and how it can help the survival of dying languages such as Ladino Spanish. This woman talks about how music is one of the best ways to learn languages because music connects with you emotionally, and activates more areas in your brain.
I can relate to this, although not with the dying languages so much but to the fact that music helps teach language. I know so many phrases in Spanish, Swedish, Japanese and Korean just from listening to songs from those countries. Its insanely helpful. And if it works for major languages, why wouldn't it work for dying ones as well?
So here is the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUdCToPPK5A
Enjoy!
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Blog 7: Oy Vey I Need Some Shmear for my Lox and Bagel!
Yiddish is a language that is derived from Hebrew, German and a few other languages. It is regional depending on where you learned it and is very popular in the Jewish community (or Tribe as I like to call us).
Yiddish can be used either as a full language to converse with other people or just as slang that can be slipped into conversation at random times. Hence the title of this blog. My great grandmother used to speak solely in Yiddish to her Russian cousins when they came to visit because it was the one language both of them knew. It was always interesting to hear her speak Yiddish and when I was younger I could recognize more of the words.
Now I use random Yiddish words to make jokes and use my "Jewish Voice" which is basically me, sounding like my grandmother (who is from Philadelphia) and saying things like "Oh honey you are looking thin. Do you want something to eat?" or "It's so hot in here I'm shvitzing!" Which is always good fun when you actually hear it (its also funnier when you actually have Jewish moms or grandmas because these are real things they say).
Any who, in the spirit of the fourth night of Passover, I have decided that this blog will be dedicated to the lovely language/slang of Yiddish.
Enjoy this lovely Brit talking about one of the more hilarious and fun languages I have ever had the fortune to know (since I never bothered to learn Hebrew).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQioXm5Pbc
Yiddish can be used either as a full language to converse with other people or just as slang that can be slipped into conversation at random times. Hence the title of this blog. My great grandmother used to speak solely in Yiddish to her Russian cousins when they came to visit because it was the one language both of them knew. It was always interesting to hear her speak Yiddish and when I was younger I could recognize more of the words.
Now I use random Yiddish words to make jokes and use my "Jewish Voice" which is basically me, sounding like my grandmother (who is from Philadelphia) and saying things like "Oh honey you are looking thin. Do you want something to eat?" or "It's so hot in here I'm shvitzing!" Which is always good fun when you actually hear it (its also funnier when you actually have Jewish moms or grandmas because these are real things they say).
Any who, in the spirit of the fourth night of Passover, I have decided that this blog will be dedicated to the lovely language/slang of Yiddish.
Enjoy this lovely Brit talking about one of the more hilarious and fun languages I have ever had the fortune to know (since I never bothered to learn Hebrew).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQioXm5Pbc
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