I had been using Doulingo to study Chinese and Portuguese. I have a working knowledge of Spanish. Then I had to add Yiddish. Now you made me think about the Catalan for Spanish speakers and possibly P

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I did check out the alphabet lessons and I thought they were OK, but since I already knew it it is hard to tell. It is definitely not the same accent that my mother spoke to her parents. They came fro

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I don't know if this is appropriate or not but Duolingo has just offered a Yiddish Language course at www.duolingo.com I had been using it for learning other languages, but when the Yiddish course was

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My wife's father died when she was 15 and did not have much contact with her father's family. She is now over 70. Recently she was contacted by a first cousin who had just found out about the relation

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My father and a Pittsburgh rabbi that I know had Jewish names of Ariah Leib (Lion/Lion). My Jewish name is Yitzhack Isaac. When my grandfather told me that I thought that he was just translating Yitzh

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