Reply To: Good ways to go about learning Yiddish

You’re definitely right about the global population in that the Ashkenazim are the more numerous, but I keep seeing conflicting data about Israel. But this is all besides the point anyway. The point is that there is a huge chunk of klal Yisrael that doesn’t understand Yiddish. There is a reason sforim are almost always published in Hebrew – because that’s what Jews understand. Writing a sefer in Yiddish would severely limit the number of Jewish readers who can read it. It’s undeniable that anybody studying Torah has a tremendous advantage if they are raised to be fluent in Hebrew as opposed to Yiddish.