40 Yiddish Words You Should Know
As a native New Yorker this brings me right back to corners of Manhattan and of course Brooklyn. For me Yiddish added such spice to the local dialect and lexicon, I could not imagine a world that was not colored by its rich hues.
Shalom!
From that article:
ReplyDelete"As in Hebrew, the ch or kh in Yiddish is a “voiceless fricative,” with a pronunciation between h and k. If you don’t know how to make that sound, pronounce it like an h. Pronouncing it like a k is goyish."