New York – Yiddish has taken another high-tech step on the information highway — Google, which bills itself as the most popular English-language search engine in the world, just added Yiddish to its popular free language translation services.
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Presumably, there is enough interest in cyberspace with growing nostalgic interest in Yiddish, academic courses at prestigious universities will find this amusing.
The translation is the English words in Yiddish lettering. Its not real Yiddish
this is perfect for williamsburg, in one of the daily papers they distribute in shulls there is a ad today that reads something like this ” yeshiva looking for KOOK for coming year.”
What Google really needs to add is Aramaic. As in the language we learn in Gemara. It would be a great asset to the Torah community to be able to easily translate the many seforim which are readily available online and from programs like Otzar HaHochma and Bar Ilan. Even though Google Translate is not perfect it would definitely help with the understanding of some of the seforim. People should write Google to develop this I am sure there is a group of Avrechim somewhere that would be more than willing to help them build the language database for this project. This might also be something that Artscroll would be interested in . This is something that Google Translate would be really useful for and hopefully one day it will be developed.
ken sumvun effin di vinda pleez
youre wrong, i just tried it and they really translate it. but badly. I typed in “good morning how are you” and they translated it to גוט מארגן ווי זענט איר
cool! surprised they didnt have it available till now..just like all the other langauge translations.
Google Translate can actually learn, you have the option to contribute a better translation. As the database of Yiddish words is constantly updated and refined it will get a lot better.
i tried what’s doing and they wrote 🙂 וואָס ס דאָינג
Once this new service becomes known, I suspect that even the most frum chareidim will quickly become regular Google users (with appropriate filters for them to avoid any porno sites). Its unfortunate that there are still some rabbonim that insist on giving their talmud and torah shiiruim in Yiddish rather than English or Hebrew.
Is Yeshivish next?
New York – ייִדיש איז טאַקען נאָך הויך, טעטש טרעטן אויף די אינפֿאָרמאַציע שאָסיי – Google, וואָס ביללס זיך ווי דער רובֿ פאָלקס ענגליש, לשון זוכן מאָטאָר אין דער וועלט, נאָר צוגעלייגט ייִדיש צו זיין פאָלקס פריי שפּראַך איבערזעצונג באַדינונגען.
מאַשמאָעס, עס איז גענוג ינטערעס אין סיבערספּאַסע מיט גראָווינג פאַרבענקט ינטערעס אין ייִדיש, אַקאַדעמיק קאָורסעס ביי פּרעסטיגיאָוס וניווערסיטיעס וועט געפֿינען די אַמוסינג.
I think this is litvishe yiddish.,
Obber beseder dus iz oich fine far der americaner voz kennen nisht kein yiddish!
איטס אנבעליוועבאל איי עם טרייאינג איט נאו ענד איט רילי ווארקס
This is really sad.. I am a secular Jew who loves Yiddish culture and language and I think we, in the secular circle should unite with you and help to spread our language to those who want to learn it. Ver zorgt az nor khareidim redn yidish? Yidish, af mayn meynung iz far ale vos vil hobn a gelegnheyt zikh oyslernen. Ikh bin 38 yor alt un khotsh mayn yidishkayt(Yuda’ism) iz nit azoy shtreng, fundestvegn bin ikh nit farshemen tsu redn mame-loshn. In Baltimor, Meriland(Maryland) hobn mir zeyer a greyse bafelkerung fun yidn vos filn zikh a libe tsu yidish un tsu di iberlebung funem dosdozikn loshn.
Ikh meyn az s’iz farkilt tsu gefinen a yungerman, an alveltlekher man vos hot a tifer interes in Yidish. Ani mevin ivrit gam, aval hakultur sheli im yidish, ki ani ashkenaz v’gam ani noladeti b’Ukrayina. Ya narodyvsya v Ukrayini… ober tsum sof, ikh hob lib yidish un altsding vos iz yidish.
Jews who don’t like Yiddish or want to hurt it are committing a great “aveyre” and should not be considered Jews anymore. I understand your not liking Medinat Yisrael – yes, this is an example of a jewish land being run by goyim. Vos iz den, a yid vi ikh vegn es tsu ton??