Shmuel can speak English, Yiddish, and a little bit of German.
"Redstu Yiddish" is Yiddish for "Do you speak Yiddish?"
Hebrew is the national language of Israel, and one of two official languages (along with Arabic). More than 6 million Israelis speak Hebrew.About 200,000 people speak Yiddish in Israel, mainly among the Haredi communities. Only about 1 million people speak Yiddish in the entire world.
Ruth Gruber could speak English, German, Russian, French, and Italian.
People in Vienna speak Viennese German.
It's mostly the Orthodox Jews.
"Indian chief" typically refers to Native American tribal leaders, not Indian as in from India. Yiddish is a Jewish language. It is unlikely for an Indian chief to speak Yiddish, as they would likely speak one of the indigenous languages of their tribe.
Russian Jews speak Russian as their first language. Yiddish is a rare second language in Russia. Hardly any Russian Jews can speak it (Most Yiddish speakers in the world live in Belarus, Israel, and Argentina).There are no longer any native speakers of Yiddish in Russia.
Moses Mendellsohn did not have to teach German Jews how to speak German. They were already very capable of doing so themselves. Those German Jews who chose to speak in Yiddish did so by choice (as a symbol of their Jewish identity).
Moses Mendellsohn did not have to teach German Jews how to speak German. They were already very capable of doing so themselves. Those German Jews who chose to speak in Yiddish did so by choice (as a symbol of their Jewish identity).
Yiddish is primarily a dialect of German spelled out in Hebrew letters. But there are a lot of words that have Hebrew origins, and origins in other languages like Polish, Russian, etc. You might find it of some interest to know there is a similar kind of language -- "Ladeeno" which is a Spanish version.
For a very long time the native language of German Jews has been German. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991) a significant number Jews from the former Soviet Union (perhaps as many as 150,000) have settled in Germany. The second generation generally speaks German, the first generation a range of languages, which often includes Russian and Yiddish.