and nonsense

[fox]

So at the end of class, someone stuck her head in to tell us the university was closing in an hour and a half. I called over to the office and my manager-colleague said not to bother coming in. So I came right home, which took far too long, but that's the midday metro schedule for you.

Yiddish was fun. It turns out that despite never actually having studied German, I have enough experience/exposure to it (or to Germanic languages in general) to get quite a lot of the Yiddish as she is spoke. As she is written, nsm, although by the end of the class I was doing pretty well following along with others reading out loud, and I could have sounded out most of the words with maybe 75% reliability given much more time than they were taking.

And now: snack time!

Comments

[batdina.livejournal.com]

ah. so this is why the Hebrew alphabet. nods. who me? awake? what is this thing awake?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Ah yes! I now realize that samtheeagle asked in a comment about my speed-efforts to learn Hebrew when I mentioned it the other day, but I haven't talked about my class in a top-level post. This is Elementary Yiddish II, is the thing (otherwise, as my college roommate pointed out in some bewilderment, why on earth would they expect you to come in already knowing the alphabet?), and I said to them, "So I didn't take Elementary Yiddish I last semester, but it says 'or permission of department'. I should tell you that I don't speak any German, and I don't read any Hebrew. Whadaya say?" [g]