Gevaldig! Duolingo Adds Yiddish to Its Language Catalog

We've all used the words klutz, schmooze, mensch, nosh and tcotchke in our everyday conversations. But, do you know where they come from? They're all Yiddish!

Today, we are excited to welcome Myra Awodey, Senior Community Manager at Duolingo, to talk about the launch of Yiddish to the world's top language learning app.

Yiddish is a language used by Jewish people in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages and is today spoken mainly in the U.S., Israel and Russia.

Find out why it was important to add Yiddish to Duolingo and how you can learn the language, too!