Sunday, June 26, 2011

My Great Language Learning Challenge: Magyar (w/s/g Yiddish)

Here we are then. A busy month of cooking professionally, scholastically, and in a home capacity as well, planning two banquet dinners, and having a billion other excuses as to why I didn't have the time or energy requisite for this challenge. I hope your GLLC went better than mine. Gut morgn, gut morgn aykh. Ikh heys Aaron, un ikh hob gepruvt tzu lernen Magyar, vos iz di shprach vos zey redn in Ungaria... ober magyar iz zayer a shver shrpach, un ikh hob nit gehat genug tzayt, un ikh hob nit gehat a bukh, un ikh hob nit gehat a lerer. Un on a bukh, on a lerer, un on tzayt, s'iz zayer shver zikh tzu lernen a shprach, mer zayer a shver shprach vos is nit vi keyn shprach vos ikh red itzt. Azoy, vel ikh red yidish, vayl ikh veys yidish un ikh hob lib yidish. Ikh kum fun detroit, ikh bin geboyrn gevorn in detroit, michigan, vos is in di fareynikte shtatn, in amerike. Ikh hob lib detroit, s'iz zayer a sheyn shtetl... zayer a sheyn shtot... un ikh bin a kuch. Ikh bin a student oikh, ober ikh bin a kuch, un ikh lern zich tzu arbetn in a kich, vos iz voo a kuch arbet, vi di "chef." Ikh hob lib kuchn, un shpiln zikh futbal—nisht amerikanishe futbal, eyropeanishe futbal, vi me zogt—ikh lob lib nayen, ikh hob lib a sakh andere zachn, un ikh hob lib lernen yidish—ikh lern zikh yidish, un ikh oikh lern yidish, vi a lerer. Vos hob ikh lib esn? Ikh hob lib esn a sakh zachn... Ikh tut a hinerzup—ir veyst vos is a hinerzup, yo?—ikh tut a hinerzup mit lokshn un mern, un s'iz vunderlech, s ...

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