Can German and Yiddish Speakers Understand Each Other?

Can German and Yiddish speakers understand each other? In this episode we showcase some of the similarities and test the degree of mutual intelligibility between German and Yiddish. Instead of a list of words and sentences, Pinchas (Yiddish speaker) and Tayfun (German speaker) will each read short sentences and paragraphs in their respective languages to see how well they can understand one another. Please follow and contact us on Instagram if you have any suggestions or if you speak a language that has not been featured before and would like to participate in a future video: Be sure to check out Pinchas’ Virtuoso Music account on Instagram: Yiddish (ייִדיש / יידיש /אידיש) is a language that originated in the 9th century in Central Europe, as a Hebrew-High German language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It is an Indo-European language with many elements taken from Hebrew and to a lesser extent from Aramaic, with some forms eventual