Stamper, I am not fluent. I taught myself to understand because my parents spoke it, only when they didn’t want us to understand what they were saying. I have picked up a bit of conversational Yiddish through the years. I can read it very slowly because I find it difficult to read Hebrew or Yiddish without “pintelach”. My parents sent me to Hebrew day school (Talmud Torah) as opposed to the, then popular, Yiddish day school (I.L.Peretz Folkschul).
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