Lesson 1a – Free Lesson #1 – Yiddish Greetings
באַגריסונגען
Bagrisungen
Greetings
Welcome to your free lesson on Yiddish greetings, the very first lesson of the course.
These Yiddish Greetings are obviously important if you want to be a mensch (lit. human, a civilized person.)
Instructions:
Listen to the audio by clicking the play button on the player under the word.
Go through the list of Yiddish Greetings, and pronounce them for yourself. Get a feel for them. Repeat as necessary. "Repetition is the mother of skill," as my zeyde used to say.
Common greeting of Hebrew derivation. Literally: Peace be upon you! Hello!
The response to the above. Literally: Upon you peace! Right back at you!
Hello. Literally: A good,as in “Have a good one!”
Good day
Good morning
Good evening
Good night
(Have a) good year. A response to, or an addition to any of the greetings here. It is customary to respond to a blessing with a greater blessing.
Have a good month.
What’s new?
What’s doing?
(If you can read the Yiddish alphabet you'll notice this greeting has been trancribed and pronounced different than its spelling. We've given the colloquial pronounciation, but it can also be pronouced just as its spelled.)
Same as above. Literally: (What's being heard?)
How are you? Literally: What are you doing?
Be well, Be healthy
Live Healthy
Be successful. Along the lines of the English “Good luck!"
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