file:///C:/Users/esthe/Documents/UH Manoa/Dissertation/ELAN Transcriptions/Completed ELAN Files/Anonymized ELAN Files/di017-08082024-D_anon.eaf Monday, April 27, 2026, 8:02 PM Emma itst rekordirn mir TC 00:00:00.455 - 00:00:02.356 Emma un tsum ershtns TC 00:00:03.054 - 00:00:05.225 Emma vi heystu TC 00:00:06.210 - 00:00:07.351 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:00:08.015 - 00:00:09.562 Emma yo TC 00:00:10.834 - 00:00:11.418 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:00:11.104 - 00:00:12.295 Emma un vi geyt es dir TC 00:00:12.470 - 00:00:15.012 Velvl um TC 00:00:16.183 - 00:00:17.375 Velvl ha why am I thinking um TC 00:00:19.440 - 00:00:22.404 Velvl wait what did you ask me again TC 00:00:30.510 - 00:00:32.124 Emma vi geyt es dir vos makhstu, gut mid TC 00:00:31.624 - 00:00:35.735 Velvl um yeah um TC 00:00:34.104 - 00:00:37.034 Velvl gut um borekhashem haha TC 00:00:38.120 - 00:00:41.995 Emma yo TC 00:00:40.972 - 00:00:41.776 Emma yo TC 00:00:43.571 - 00:00:44.257 Emma un vu voynstu TC 00:00:46.727 - 00:00:48.374 Velvl um TC 00:00:48.887 - 00:00:49.977 Velvl um Montreal TC 00:00:51.587 - 00:00:53.032 Emma mhm TC 00:00:53.375 - 00:00:54.145 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:00:54.675 - 00:00:56.660 Emma un fun vanen kumstu? TC 00:00:58.067 - 00:01:00.406 Velvl um ikh ikh kum from fun um Boston TC 00:01:02.269 - 00:01:08.658 Emma vu in Boston TC 00:01:09.170 - 00:01:10.413 Velvl um TC 00:01:11.010 - 00:01:12.252 Emma haha tsi du vilst zogn ikh bin oykh mer veyniker fun Boston TC 00:01:11.449 - 00:01:14.699 Velvl um TC 00:01:15.296 - 00:01:16.404 Velvl well um TC 00:01:20.831 - 00:01:22.445 Velvl um TC 00:01:23.464 - 00:01:24.740 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:01:25.404 - 00:01:27.237 Emma ikh meyn az yo TC 00:01:27.227 - 00:01:29.313 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:01:30.095 - 00:01:33.177 Emma mayn mishpokh--yo mayn mishpokhe iz itst in Waltham TC 00:01:30.686 - 00:01:34.797 Velvl oh okay um uh TC 00:01:34.685 - 00:01:38.695 Velvl Brandeis is in Waltham TC 00:01:38.786 - 00:01:41.007 Emma yo yo TC 00:01:39.782 - 00:01:41.665 Emma un vi alt bistu? TC 00:01:42.175 - 00:01:44.855 Velvl um TC 00:01:46.734 - 00:01:48.112 Velvl ikh bin um TC 00:01:49.670 - 00:01:52.212 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:01:53.467 - 00:01:55.959 Velvl yo TC 00:01:57.534 - 00:01:58.501 Emma mhm TC 00:01:58.192 - 00:01:59.227 Velvl um TC 00:01:58.501 - 00:01:59.958 Emma un f--oh yo velkhe pronomen nitstu oder vos iz dayn min? TC 00:01:59.733 - 00:02:07.130 Velvl um TC 00:02:07.625 - 00:02:08.767 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:02:15.557 - 00:02:21.035 TC 00:02:24.112 - 00:02:25.459 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:02:25.459 - 00:02:29.202 TC 00:02:27.859 - 00:02:29.489 Emma [redacted] TC 00:02:29.512 - 00:02:31.548 Emma [redacted] TC 00:02:32.668 - 00:02:39.108 TC 00:02:34.035 - 00:02:34.805 TC 00:02:40.346 - 00:02:41.960 Emma [redacted] TC 00:02:40.363 - 00:02:41.960 Emma [redacted] TC 00:02:45.409 - 00:02:46.617 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:02:45.560 - 00:02:48.355 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:02:49.644 - 00:02:53.249 Emma mhm TC 00:02:51.568 - 00:02:52.321 Emma mhm TC 00:02:52.867 - 00:02:53.739 Emma un vos tutstu vos makhtstu far arbet TC 00:02:54.707 - 00:02:59.560 Velvl um TC 00:02:59.887 - 00:03:01.164 Velvl ikh bin yetst in um TC 00:03:01.288 - 00:03:04.792 Velvl don't know how to say graduate school um TC 00:03:05.945 - 00:03:09.314 Emma um graduir--neyn uh TC 00:03:08.089 - 00:03:11.862 Velvl in French it's deuxieme cycle haha that's the only thing I can think TC 00:03:12.746 - 00:03:16.064 Emma mm ikh meyn az s'iz epes vegn magister tsi s'iz a MA TC 00:03:13.640 - 00:03:19.439 Emma nisht in gantsn zikher TC 00:03:19.513 - 00:03:22.072 Velvl um TC 00:03:23.158 - 00:03:24.552 Velvl fun arbet um TC 00:03:25.875 - 00:03:28.501 Emma in un in velkhe obteyl? TC 00:03:29.098 - 00:03:31.775 Velvl obteyl? TC 00:03:32.929 - 00:03:34.036 Emma department TC 00:03:34.565 - 00:03:35.842 Velvl oh department um I never talk about academic things, it's just what I'm doing you know in day to day um TC 00:03:35.240 - 00:03:42.693 Emma haha TC 00:03:39.037 - 00:03:39.858 Velvl [redacted[ TC 00:03:43.003 - 00:03:45.022 Velvl my brain is getting French English and Yiddish very mixed up right now [redacted] TC 00:03:47.188 - 00:03:52.582 Emma mhm mhm haha TC 00:03:49.584 - 00:03:53.527 Velvl um TC 00:03:53.010 - 00:03:54.168 Velvl um TC 00:03:55.339 - 00:03:56.649 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:03:58.933 - 00:04:02.170 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:02.170 - 00:04:05.255 Emma [redacted] TC 00:04:04.417 - 00:04:06.115 Emma [redacted] TC 00:04:06.982 - 00:04:08.545 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:11.218 - 00:04:12.140 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:15.352 - 00:04:16.679 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:18.474 - 00:04:19.936 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:21.056 - 00:04:22.366 Emma [redacted] TC 00:04:21.950 - 00:04:24.172 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:23.182 - 00:04:24.222 Emma [redacted] TC 00:04:24.920 - 00:04:29.589 TC 00:04:26.794 - 00:04:27.462 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:30.540 - 00:04:31.057 Emma [redacted] TC 00:04:31.046 - 00:04:33.504 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:32.953 - 00:04:36.372 Emma [redacted] TC 00:04:36.328 - 00:04:39.545 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:38.977 - 00:04:41.249 Emma un vi alt bistu geven ven du host ongehoybn zikh tsu lernen yidish TC 00:04:42.133 - 00:04:48.927 Velvl um hm tsvantsik TC 00:04:49.069 - 00:04:52.539 Emma [redacted] TC 00:04:52.730 - 00:04:55.070 Velvl [redacted] TC 00:04:56.139 - 00:04:58.377 Emma okey gut? TC 00:05:01.792 - 00:05:03.895 Emma dos iz nisht keyn test TC 00:05:07.108 - 00:05:09.279 Emma take, nisht keyn test, ober tsi du kenst dos vort far a bild, kenstu nor zogn vos du zest inem bild? TC 00:05:10.601 - 00:05:19.471 Velvl take haha TC 00:05:11.175 - 00:05:13.329 Emma vi filt er, meynstu? TC 00:05:23.882 - 00:05:26.069 Velvl so sorry haha TC 00:05:28.894 - 00:05:31.165 Velvl so what i see in those pictures, okay, cause i would say--well what did you what did you ask me again TC 00:05:36.454 - 00:05:42.505 Emma vi filt er TC 00:05:41.584 - 00:05:43.164 Velvl vi filt er TC 00:05:43.609 - 00:05:44.919 Velvl um TC 00:05:45.752 - 00:05:46.876 Velvl i'm not gonna give you good data i don't think haha TC 00:05:49.430 - 00:05:51.871 Velvl um haha TC 00:05:52.805 - 00:05:53.930 Emma we can also speak in english about some attitudes and stuff, later TC 00:05:53.413 - 00:05:57.895 Velvl okay, yeah, um TC 00:05:57.480 - 00:06:00.612 Velvl i wouldn't know how to say that TC 00:06:05.647 - 00:06:07.565 Emma tsi er vilt geyn shlofn TC 00:06:07.318 - 00:06:10.029 Emma er shloft nisht ober er vil TC 00:06:10.490 - 00:06:12.982 Velvl yeah, i, yeah like i don't TC 00:06:12.887 - 00:06:15.378 Emma vi filt er TC 00:06:13.984 - 00:06:16.340 Velvl oh okay well i would TC 00:06:23.383 - 00:06:25.469 Velvl just say probably mid TC 00:06:26.522 - 00:06:28.797 Emma yo dos iz alts dos iz gut TC 00:06:28.260 - 00:06:30.819 Velvl okey haha my brain was like oh sleepy i dunno TC 00:06:28.797 - 00:06:34.312 Emma yo mid mid iz gut TC 00:06:33.002 - 00:06:34.953 Velvl okay TC 00:06:34.807 - 00:06:35.510 Emma kenstu dos, oyf yidish? TC 00:06:35.820 - 00:06:38.125 Velvl honestly? TC 00:06:40.832 - 00:06:42.091 Velvl i don't know if there's um TC 00:06:43.430 - 00:06:45.280 Velvl my brain just went levone okay haha TC 00:06:46.232 - 00:06:49.060 Emma yo s'iz levone haha kenstu dos? TC 00:06:47.531 - 00:06:51.963 Emma ikh meyn az s'iz endlekh tsu english TC 00:06:59.529 - 00:07:02.020 Emma nor bar efsher TC 00:07:03.427 - 00:07:05.159 Emma kenstu vos dos iz? TC 00:07:09.722 - 00:07:11.335 Velvl mm TC 00:07:12.692 - 00:07:13.715 Velvl yo ober um TC 00:07:14.835 - 00:07:17.107 Velvl i know i've said it TC 00:07:26.225 - 00:07:27.603 Velvl haha i just have to find it um TC 00:07:28.470 - 00:07:31.619 Emma yo TC 00:07:30.630 - 00:07:31.248 Emma efsher tsi du TC 00:07:32.132 - 00:07:33.661 Emma yo ikh veys nisht TC 00:07:34.545 - 00:07:35.922 Emma dos iz okey s'iz a bisl shver ober TC 00:07:55.352 - 00:07:58.079 Emma uh s'iz endlekh tsu daytsh tsi du kenst dos TC 00:07:58.406 - 00:08:03.057 Emma oder TC 00:08:03.857 - 00:08:05.369 Emma es heybt on mit v TC 00:08:06.034 - 00:08:07.664 Emma s'iz dos hilft haha TC 00:08:08.565 - 00:08:09.892 Emma neyn? vald TC 00:08:10.657 - 00:08:12.541 Emma kenstu dos? TC 00:08:13.695 - 00:08:14.954 Velvl efsher um TC 00:08:32.240 - 00:08:34.259 Emma s'iz oykh endlekh tsu english TC 00:08:55.309 - 00:08:57.564 Emma tsi du kenst no--nisht dos iz okey TC 00:09:03.830 - 00:09:06.676 Velvl if i were to guess i'd say like bet or something TC 00:09:06.058 - 00:09:09.275 Emma yo dos iz alts TC 00:09:08.252 - 00:09:09.730 Emma yo TC 00:09:10.665 - 00:09:11.418 Emma dos iz efsher a bisl shver TC 00:09:13.719 - 00:09:15.822 Velvl haha i was looking at that like mm TC 00:09:16.740 - 00:09:18.877 Emma uh efsher oykh dos iz a bisl shver ober kenstu dos TC 00:09:19.355 - 00:09:24.395 Velvl um TC 00:09:29.447 - 00:09:30.655 Emma s'iz oykh endlekh tsu english TC 00:09:36.163 - 00:09:38.418 Velvl uh yo um TC 00:09:38.222 - 00:09:40.089 Velvl s'iz nisht hint haha nisht hint um hant TC 00:09:46.322 - 00:09:51.665 Emma nisht hint TC 00:09:47.334 - 00:09:48.830 Emma yo TC 00:09:51.182 - 00:09:52.019 Emma kenstu dos haha TC 00:09:53.409 - 00:09:54.753 Velvl a ku TC 00:09:54.962 - 00:09:56.035 Emma haha TC 00:09:55.755 - 00:09:56.727 Velvl um TC 00:09:58.421 - 00:09:59.748 Emma endlekh tsu english haha a sakh zenen cognates a bisl mit english TC 00:10:04.530 - 00:10:09.738 Velvl neyn neyn TC 00:10:22.789 - 00:10:25.533 Emma doktor TC 00:10:24.620 - 00:10:25.680 Velvl oh haha TC 00:10:25.674 - 00:10:27.119 Velvl my brain went to TC 00:10:27.834 - 00:10:29.127 Emma mm TC 00:10:28.172 - 00:10:29.043 Velvl i need to stop english french TC 00:10:29.404 - 00:10:31.608 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:10:31.412 - 00:10:33.346 Velvl thinking cause it's always gonna be more like english TC 00:10:31.614 - 00:10:34.308 Emma mhm yo TC 00:10:33.892 - 00:10:36.252 Velvl but TC 00:10:34.415 - 00:10:35.084 Emma far mir iz es shver tsu redn oyf frantseyzish vayl ven ikh prubir TC 00:10:36.252 - 00:10:42.560 Emma yidish komt arayn TC 00:10:42.583 - 00:10:44.416 Velvl haha TC 00:10:43.865 - 00:10:45.204 Emma haha TC 00:10:44.591 - 00:10:45.108 Velvl it's the opposite TC 00:10:45.204 - 00:10:46.509 Emma yo TC 00:10:46.076 - 00:10:47.167 Emma un di andere TC 00:10:48.928 - 00:10:50.491 Velvl i wanna say TC 00:10:53.130 - 00:10:54.423 Velvl um TC 00:10:55.374 - 00:10:56.380 Velvl barg? TC 00:10:56.454 - 00:10:57.494 Emma mhm TC 00:10:57.146 - 00:10:57.933 Emma endlekh tsu english yo haha TC 00:11:00.285 - 00:11:04.126 Velvl radio haha TC 00:11:01.415 - 00:11:03.924 Emma kenstu dos TC 00:11:06.377 - 00:11:07.687 Emma s'iz nisht azoy endlekh vi haha dos iz okey TC 00:11:20.552 - 00:11:25.034 Velvl mm mm TC 00:11:22.509 - 00:11:23.127 Emma dos? TC 00:11:25.142 - 00:11:26.013 Velvl um TC 00:11:26.576 - 00:11:27.650 Velvl regn? TC 00:11:30.035 - 00:11:31.042 Emma mhm TC 00:11:30.778 - 00:11:31.615 Emma dos iz shver, a sakh mentshn hobn dos nisht gekent, ober dos? TC 00:11:32.280 - 00:11:36.864 Velvl um hunt TC 00:11:39.553 - 00:11:41.386 Emma mhm TC 00:11:41.375 - 00:11:41.943 Velvl kugl haha um gelt TC 00:11:44.902 - 00:11:50.026 Emma yo okey dos iz alts funem bilder TC 00:11:48.834 - 00:11:52.287 Emma uh mir hobn TC 00:11:52.530 - 00:11:54.582 Emma verter ikh meyn zenen tsu shver tsu gefinen bilder TC 00:11:54.690 - 00:11:59.226 Emma kenstu nor leyenen di verter? TC 00:11:59.226 - 00:12:01.484 Velvl ale verter? TC 00:12:03.330 - 00:12:04.319 Emma yo? tsi dos iz okey? TC 00:12:04.207 - 00:12:06.817 Velvl okey TC 00:12:05.017 - 00:12:05.872 Velvl it's been a second since i read TC 00:12:08.544 - 00:12:11.508 Emma mhm i hob oykh transliteratsye ober ikh meyn az dos iz beser tsi du kenst TC 00:12:09.962 - 00:12:15.170 Velvl yeah TC 00:12:14.872 - 00:12:15.654 Velvl um zikher TC 00:12:15.654 - 00:12:17.364 Velvl um TC 00:12:17.859 - 00:12:19.135 Velvl shverkey--uh shver-- TC 00:12:19.344 - 00:12:21.954 Velvl shverkeyt um TC 00:12:23.141 - 00:12:25.490 Velvl rov um TC 00:12:25.490 - 00:12:27.489 Velvl port um TC 00:12:31.022 - 00:12:34.019 Velvl luft um TC 00:12:35.257 - 00:12:38.120 Velvl shtat TC 00:12:38.120 - 00:12:40.077 Velvl take TC 00:12:41.282 - 00:12:42.520 Velvl likht TC 00:12:42.520 - 00:12:43.580 Velvl mume TC 00:12:43.580 - 00:12:45.241 Velvl problem um TC 00:12:48.504 - 00:12:51.417 Velvl dort TC 00:12:52.250 - 00:12:53.550 Velvl grupe TC 00:12:56.368 - 00:12:57.897 Velvl talmud uh TC 00:13:02.882 - 00:13:05.070 Velvl mm TC 00:13:05.070 - 00:13:07.246 Velvl merstns TC 00:13:10.509 - 00:13:15.020 Velvl um TC 00:13:15.082 - 00:13:16.409 Velvl frayndshaft TC 00:13:18.710 - 00:13:23.610 Velvl hoypt TC 00:13:25.022 - 00:13:28.140 Velvl haha litvish haha um TC 00:13:30.017 - 00:13:34.364 Velvl shpet TC 00:13:35.079 - 00:13:36.524 Velvl um vokh TC 00:13:37.678 - 00:13:40.119 Velvl um TC 00:13:41.475 - 00:13:42.312 Velvl informatsye TC 00:13:44.462 - 00:13:48.725 Velvl tsayt TC 00:13:50.452 - 00:13:51.914 Velvl far-- TC 00:13:55.059 - 00:13:56.167 Velvl mm TC 00:13:57.371 - 00:13:57.989 Velvl farneplt? TC 00:14:00.425 - 00:14:02.910 Velvl yidishkeyt haha TC 00:14:02.990 - 00:14:05.100 Velvl yidishkeyt um TC 00:14:05.218 - 00:14:07.190 Velvl yor um TC 00:14:07.190 - 00:14:09.329 Velvl khutspe TC 00:14:11.360 - 00:14:12.670 Velvl shpilt TC 00:14:13.824 - 00:14:15.303 Velvl um shves--ter--kind shvesterkind um TC 00:14:17.638 - 00:14:23.926 Velvl oh greyt um TC 00:14:30.412 - 00:14:33.200 Velvl tsurik um TC 00:14:33.200 - 00:14:35.941 Velvl forshung TC 00:14:39.255 - 00:14:40.902 Velvl uh makhn TC 00:14:41.752 - 00:14:44.665 Velvl faynt TC 00:14:48.469 - 00:14:49.795 Velvl s--loshn koydesh um TC 00:14:58.205 - 00:15:01.135 Emma oh yo tsi du kenst nisht dos iz okey TC 00:15:00.399 - 00:15:03.768 Velvl uh huh haha ikh ken--ikh ken nisht um TC 00:15:02.846 - 00:15:07.042 Velvl mishpokhe haha TC 00:15:07.487 - 00:15:08.830 Velvl s'oykh haha TC 00:15:09.512 - 00:15:10.484 Velvl loshn koydesh um TC 00:15:10.558 - 00:15:13.052 Velvl um TC 00:15:13.052 - 00:15:14.669 Velvl held TC 00:15:15.688 - 00:15:17.040 Velvl mit TC 00:15:17.040 - 00:15:18.770 Velvl um TC 00:15:18.770 - 00:15:19.917 Velvl avade TC 00:15:25.509 - 00:15:26.590 Velvl uh yidish TC 00:15:26.590 - 00:15:28.203 Velvl minut--minut um TC 00:15:30.133 - 00:15:33.220 Velvl um royz um TC 00:15:33.220 - 00:15:36.522 Velvl sho TC 00:15:45.540 - 00:15:46.550 Velvl um lernen TC 00:15:46.550 - 00:15:49.280 Velvl um TC 00:15:49.354 - 00:15:51.035 Velvl pasirt TC 00:15:53.572 - 00:15:55.338 Velvl reyn um TC 00:15:56.779 - 00:15:59.877 Velvl loshn koydesh i can guess um TC 00:16:06.549 - 00:16:10.525 Emma yo TC 00:16:08.642 - 00:16:09.513 Velvl mistame um TC 00:16:12.017 - 00:16:14.643 Velvl hart TC 00:16:15.122 - 00:16:16.480 Velvl redn TC 00:16:16.480 - 00:16:17.250 Velvl land TC 00:16:17.250 - 00:16:19.140 Velvl lid um TC 00:16:19.140 - 00:16:22.152 Velvl heymarbet TC 00:16:22.918 - 00:16:24.670 Velvl gut um TC 00:16:24.670 - 00:16:28.227 Velvl shmueskrayz TC 00:16:31.170 - 00:16:33.357 Velvl t--tokhter um TC 00:16:35.760 - 00:16:39.240 Velvl kidush TC 00:16:39.240 - 00:16:40.782 Velvl royt TC 00:16:41.750 - 00:16:42.706 Emma a dank haha dos iz alts fun dos haha TC 00:16:43.151 - 00:16:46.284 Emma uh TC 00:16:47.353 - 00:16:48.511 Emma itst TC 00:16:48.551 - 00:16:49.456 Emma tsi du kenst redn oyf yidish iz dos zeyer gut TC 00:16:49.597 - 00:16:52.876 Emma ober tsi du darfst nitsn mer english dos iz oykh okey TC 00:16:52.876 - 00:16:57.269 Velvl it would be easier for me to express myself this way TC 00:16:58.507 - 00:17:01.319 Emma yo ober s'iz TC 00:17:00.785 - 00:17:02.804 Emma oykh vikhtik tsu hern vi azoy di redst yidish tsi du kenst TC 00:17:03.182 - 00:17:07.394 Emma ah un tsum ershtns vos iz dayn mame loshn TC 00:17:08.261 - 00:17:12.372 Velvl mayn mame loshn haha iz uh english TC 00:17:13.273 - 00:17:17.097 Emma yo TC 00:17:16.614 - 00:17:17.472 Emma un ven du bist geven a kind hostu nor geredt english? TC 00:17:17.472 - 00:17:21.569 Velvl um yo um TC 00:17:22.014 - 00:17:25.906 Velvl yeah yo TC 00:17:27.212 - 00:17:28.792 Emma mit TC 00:17:29.135 - 00:17:30.040 Velvl nor english TC 00:17:29.608 - 00:17:30.901 Emma yo mitn mishpokhe TC 00:17:31.110 - 00:17:33.933 Emma mit khaveyrim TC 00:17:33.933 - 00:17:35.795 Velvl mit mishpokhe khaveyrim TC 00:17:34.603 - 00:17:37.330 Emma in shul? TC 00:17:37.286 - 00:17:38.140 Velvl in shul TC 00:17:38.248 - 00:17:39.575 Velvl um TC 00:17:40.205 - 00:17:41.364 Velvl in shul ikh hob gelernt um frantseyzish TC 00:17:42.095 - 00:17:45.771 Velvl ober um TC 00:17:46.539 - 00:17:48.316 Velvl uh TC 00:17:52.035 - 00:17:53.294 Velvl mm mayn mishpokhe TC 00:17:53.874 - 00:17:56.787 Velvl um TC 00:17:56.996 - 00:17:58.205 Velvl redt a bisl frantseyzish um TC 00:17:58.565 - 00:18:02.727 Emma mhm TC 00:18:01.249 - 00:18:01.765 Velvl ober TC 00:18:04.050 - 00:18:05.208 Emma mit dir? TC 00:18:04.472 - 00:18:05.596 Velvl ober nisht nisht uh mit mir TC 00:18:06.480 - 00:18:09.275 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:18:08.944 - 00:18:10.270 Emma un TC 00:18:11.357 - 00:18:12.667 Emma yo, vifl klasn oder TC 00:18:13.218 - 00:18:17.459 Emma vi alt bistu geven ven du host ongehoybn zikh tsu lernen frantseyzish? TC 00:18:17.668 - 00:18:23.028 Velvl um TC 00:18:24.249 - 00:18:25.559 Velvl let's see TC 00:18:28.198 - 00:18:29.170 Velvl ikh hob gelernt frantseyzish um TC 00:18:30.847 - 00:18:34.064 Velvl I think TC 00:18:36.112 - 00:18:37.355 Velvl ikh meyn az fir yorn um TC 00:18:38.559 - 00:18:44.054 Velvl um TC 00:18:47.064 - 00:18:48.982 Velvl ikh meyn az TC 00:18:50.844 - 00:18:52.137 Velvl in um high school so TC 00:19:06.977 - 00:19:10.396 Velvl uh TC 00:19:11.482 - 00:19:12.590 Velvl ninth grade haha um TC 00:19:15.583 - 00:19:19.711 Emma mhm TC 00:19:17.439 - 00:19:18.513 Velvl until biz um TC 00:19:21.371 - 00:19:25.297 Velvl well TC 00:19:26.839 - 00:19:27.710 Velvl nisht nisht fir yorn um TC 00:19:29.825 - 00:19:32.688 Velvl ikh lern z--frantseyzish TC 00:19:36.440 - 00:19:38.915 Velvl yetst I guess um so TC 00:19:40.642 - 00:19:44.365 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:19:41.756 - 00:19:43.336 Emma in klasn oder nor vayl du voynst in Montreal? TC 00:19:43.781 - 00:19:47.268 Velvl um TC 00:19:47.004 - 00:19:48.179 Velvl both um TC 00:19:48.439 - 00:19:50.643 Velvl there TC 00:19:52.354 - 00:19:53.647 Velvl um government classes TC 00:19:54.851 - 00:19:56.881 Velvl that I've taken before TC 00:19:56.881 - 00:19:58.709 Velvl um TC 00:19:58.918 - 00:20:00.059 Velvl and so let's see TC 00:20:01.888 - 00:20:06.084 Emma mhm du host ongehoybn ven du bist geven mer veyniker a dervaksene? TC 00:20:08.284 - 00:20:13.019 Emma mhm TC 00:20:15.658 - 00:20:16.462 Emma un hostu gelernt zikh andere shprakhn oykh? TC 00:20:17.075 - 00:20:21.102 Velvl um TC 00:20:21.294 - 00:20:22.419 Velvl neyn TC 00:20:23.522 - 00:20:24.562 Velvl um TC 00:20:24.720 - 00:20:26.283 Velvl a bisl hebreish mm TC 00:20:26.289 - 00:20:28.747 Emma mhm TC 00:20:27.875 - 00:20:28.797 Emma vifl haha tsi du kenstu zogn TC 00:20:30.086 - 00:20:32.662 Velvl eyn yor haha TC 00:20:40.127 - 00:20:41.184 Emma mhm TC 00:20:41.122 - 00:20:42.719 Emma un iz dos loshn koydesh oder TC 00:20:42.979 - 00:20:45.571 Velvl uh loshn koydesh um not TC 00:20:45.949 - 00:20:48.612 Emma mhm TC 00:20:47.029 - 00:20:47.950 Velvl nisht modern Hebrew haha TC 00:20:48.612 - 00:20:51.815 Emma yo TC 00:20:50.285 - 00:20:51.849 Emma un far yidish du host gezogt haha s'iz a bisl vi osmosis ober TC 00:20:53.509 - 00:20:58.953 Emma hostu genemen klasn far yidish? TC 00:20:59.904 - 00:21:01.822 Velvl um TC 00:21:02.081 - 00:21:03.273 Velvl hob um TC 00:21:05.034 - 00:21:06.850 Velvl sat in TC 00:21:10.721 - 00:21:12.301 Emma mhm TC 00:21:11.936 - 00:21:12.976 Velvl um ober neyn not--not in like a formal way I guess TC 00:21:13.995 - 00:21:19.608 Emma mhm mhm du host nor gelern fun redn mit khaveyrim vos redn yidish? TC 00:21:19.074 - 00:21:24.519 Velvl khaveyrim um TC 00:21:23.411 - 00:21:27.050 Velvl uh TC 00:21:27.883 - 00:21:29.210 Velvl e-- TC 00:21:32.591 - 00:21:33.310 Velvl a bisl fun TC 00:21:38.025 - 00:21:39.571 Velvl um mayne khaveyrim um TC 00:21:40.539 - 00:21:44.600 Velvl un a bisl fun um TC 00:21:51.710 - 00:21:54.252 Velvl khaveyrim acquaintances TC 00:21:54.545 - 00:21:57.054 Velvl um TC 00:21:57.262 - 00:21:58.353 Velvl ex-Hasidic haha TC 00:21:59.068 - 00:22:01.005 Velvl um TC 00:22:01.005 - 00:22:02.167 Emma mhm TC 00:22:01.059 - 00:22:01.694 Velvl so TC 00:22:03.202 - 00:22:04.296 Velvl uh a bisl klal shprakh TC 00:22:04.296 - 00:22:07.786 Velvl un a un a bisl khsidish TC 00:22:07.809 - 00:22:11.245 Emma mm mhm TC 00:22:11.353 - 00:22:12.342 Velvl um TC 00:22:11.404 - 00:22:12.545 Velvl so sometimes I have--I go back and forth with vowel shifts haha TC 00:22:13.783 - 00:22:17.118 Emma yo TC 00:22:18.660 - 00:22:19.582 Velvl um mit the the neyn neyn thing haha um u--or un un TC 00:22:19.115 - 00:22:26.062 Emma mhm TC 00:22:21.799 - 00:22:22.754 Emma mhm TC 00:22:22.811 - 00:22:23.581 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:22:25.460 - 00:22:27.226 Velvl um yo TC 00:22:26.912 - 00:22:28.272 Emma haha TC 00:22:27.418 - 00:22:28.070 Emma yo ober du redst a sakh tsi du host keyn mol genemt a klas oder epes azoy vi dos TC 00:22:28.717 - 00:22:34.989 Velvl um TC 00:22:35.872 - 00:22:36.862 Velvl yeah I'm trying to get them to sit me down and teach me more haha TC 00:22:37.324 - 00:22:40.979 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:22:40.665 - 00:22:42.464 Emma un yo TC 00:22:43.483 - 00:22:46.075 Emma hot dayn mishpokhe TC 00:22:46.841 - 00:22:49.197 Emma a por dor tsurik redn yidish? TC 00:22:49.794 - 00:22:53.635 Velvl um TC 00:22:56.460 - 00:22:57.601 Velvl ikh meyn az TC 00:22:59.008 - 00:23:00.217 Velvl yo um ober uh nisht TC 00:23:02.805 - 00:23:07.119 Velvl probably TC 00:23:09.589 - 00:23:10.730 Velvl I wouldn't say s--in TC 00:23:11.209 - 00:23:13.278 Velvl maybe the eight-- TC 00:23:13.537 - 00:23:15.219 Velvl late eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds I would say, um TC 00:23:15.394 - 00:23:18.948 Emma mm TC 00:23:16.963 - 00:23:18.121 Emma mhm TC 00:23:18.212 - 00:23:19.184 Velvl I--my--part of my family that's Jewish which is my mother's mother's family is TC 00:23:19.190 - 00:23:24.376 Velvl um TC 00:23:24.376 - 00:23:25.377 Velvl from Lithuania TC 00:23:25.670 - 00:23:27.048 Velvl and they there was there was a there was a marked like um stopping point and then a restarting point I guess with me but obviously that's not you know but it wasn't it wasn't directly given to me it was yeah TC 00:23:27.493 - 00:23:40.818 Emma mhm haha TC 00:23:35.036 - 00:23:35.789 Emma yeah TC 00:23:39.457 - 00:23:40.599 Emma mhm so you don't like have any connection to the litvish dialect TC 00:23:40.605 - 00:23:45.222 Velvl no I don't have any connection to the litvish dialect like that is technically yeah I guess like TC 00:23:44.739 - 00:23:49.036 Emma mhm TC 00:23:46.427 - 00:23:47.264 Velvl if I wanted to be super authentic I would try to learn it but TC 00:23:49.194 - 00:23:53.103 Velvl no no TC 00:23:53.548 - 00:23:55.044 Velvl which is one other reason I guess I'm a chameleon I just hear like when my ex-Hasidic friends are speaking I'm like okay well this is what I am now and you know TC 00:23:55.421 - 00:24:03.194 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:24:02.458 - 00:24:03.700 Velvl haha TC 00:24:03.319 - 00:24:03.805 Velvl vice versa haha TC 00:24:03.805 - 00:24:05.202 Emma yo TC 00:24:04.787 - 00:24:05.810 Emma un yo vi oft nitstu yidish togteglekh TC 00:24:06.508 - 00:24:11.885 Velvl not gonna lie TC 00:24:16.481 - 00:24:17.909 Velvl didn't understand that haha TC 00:24:18.877 - 00:24:20.305 Emma vi oft nitstu yidish togteglekh on a daily basis TC 00:24:20.194 - 00:24:25.469 Velvl vi oft oh okay TC 00:24:21.375 - 00:24:23.275 Velvl um TC 00:24:24.868 - 00:24:25.992 Velvl last year? haha um TC 00:24:30.538 - 00:24:33.400 Velvl once or twice a day TC 00:24:34.504 - 00:24:36.016 Emma mhm TC 00:24:35.735 - 00:24:36.590 Velvl um TC 00:24:36.697 - 00:24:37.822 Emma mit TC 00:24:37.271 - 00:24:38.260 Velvl mit TC 00:24:38.250 - 00:24:39.205 Emma redn mit khaveyrim oder nor tekstn TC 00:24:38.368 - 00:24:41.534 Velvl khaveyrim redn tekstn um TC 00:24:39.954 - 00:24:44.150 Velvl itst um TC 00:24:46.637 - 00:24:48.858 Velvl maybe once a day tekstn TC 00:24:50.484 - 00:24:54.325 Velvl um TC 00:24:54.382 - 00:24:55.608 Velvl I used to live very close to those friends and I don't anymore TC 00:24:55.614 - 00:24:58.730 Emma mhm TC 00:24:57.724 - 00:24:58.342 Velvl um TC 00:24:59.242 - 00:25:00.350 Velvl and I think that TC 00:25:00.829 - 00:25:02.319 Velvl because of the way that I learned it and because it was so dependent on having people around me TC 00:25:02.319 - 00:25:06.982 Velvl I speak way worse than I did a year ago TC 00:25:07.764 - 00:25:11.403 Emma mm mhm TC 00:25:10.160 - 00:25:11.757 Emma ober es ken kumen tsurik TC 00:25:12.101 - 00:25:13.529 Velvl yeah TC 00:25:13.519 - 00:25:14.694 Velvl um TC 00:25:14.885 - 00:25:15.810 Velvl I can always go back to it you know I've been trying to make an effort to to go back and see them and also maybe just like take a class so I don't TC 00:25:15.810 - 00:25:24.391 Emma mhm TC 00:25:18.159 - 00:25:18.676 Velvl fully forget it TC 00:25:24.391 - 00:25:25.679 Emma mhm TC 00:25:24.994 - 00:25:25.696 Velvl but it's so much easier when when they're around I guess I just like immediately remember things like it TC 00:25:27.508 - 00:25:33.560 Emma yeah TC 00:25:31.153 - 00:25:32.227 Emma mhm TC 00:25:32.992 - 00:25:33.610 Velvl it's almost like oh I was gonna start making a linguistics analogy but that means I know too much TC 00:25:34.933 - 00:25:39.714 Emma no it's okay haha TC 00:25:39.236 - 00:25:40.220 Velvl haha I was gonna like it's almost like when when kids have parents that both speak different languages and they have a really hard time speaking the the mother's language with the father or vice versa it's kinda like that TC 00:25:39.714 - 00:25:50.114 Emma haha TC 00:25:40.220 - 00:25:42.082 Emma mhm TC 00:25:44.569 - 00:25:45.760 Emma mhm TC 00:25:50.863 - 00:25:51.397 Velvl like it immediately comes to me when I see those people's faces haha TC 00:25:52.027 - 00:25:55.210 Emma mm haha TC 00:25:54.862 - 00:25:56.952 Emma ikh ken TC 00:25:56.952 - 00:25:58.096 Velvl yo TC 00:25:58.136 - 00:25:58.889 Emma show you a photo haha TC 00:25:58.355 - 00:25:59.851 Velvl haha it's like this is the environment in which I know Yiddish and this is the environment in which it comes all to me and then any other environment if if my brain is reaching for a language it's like oh you're trying to speak French right now right? TC 00:26:00.634 - 00:26:10.870 Emma mhm TC 00:26:03.047 - 00:26:04.272 Emma mhm yo TC 00:26:10.033 - 00:26:11.726 Emma ikh red nisht keyn sakh frantseyzish tsi dos helft haha TC 00:26:11.726 - 00:26:16.169 Velvl I'm like ahhh no I'm not trying to speak French right now actually TC 00:26:16.277 - 00:26:19.899 Emma haha TC 00:26:18.774 - 00:26:20.337 Emma un yo TC 00:26:21.052 - 00:26:23.510 Emma ven du redst zikh aleyn when you talk to yourself velkhe shprakhn nitstu? TC 00:26:23.550 - 00:26:30.057 Velvl mhm TC 00:26:27.701 - 00:26:28.522 Velvl oh English TC 00:26:29.929 - 00:26:31.104 Emma nor English nisht frantseyzish TC 00:26:31.127 - 00:26:33.145 Velvl nor English. nisht frantseyzish TC 00:26:32.595 - 00:26:35.035 Velvl um TC 00:26:35.042 - 00:26:36.115 Velvl unless I'm trying sometimes I do that as like a TC 00:26:36.274 - 00:26:39.274 Emma mhm TC 00:26:37.354 - 00:26:38.174 Velvl thing as a practice thing yeah TC 00:26:39.274 - 00:26:41.330 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:26:40.813 - 00:26:42.241 Emma okay TC 00:26:42.973 - 00:26:44.165 Emma di nekste frages zenen vegn identitet TC 00:26:44.340 - 00:26:48.130 Emma vos batrakhstu az--vos iz dayn etnishkeyt TC 00:26:49.132 - 00:26:53.311 Velvl oh okay um well um TC 00:26:54.009 - 00:26:59.116 Velvl I'm TC 00:27:00.135 - 00:27:01.546 Velvl a lot of European things from the US haha TC 00:27:03.830 - 00:27:06.305 Velvl um TC 00:27:06.969 - 00:27:08.009 Velvl I grew up TC 00:27:08.184 - 00:27:09.545 Velvl um entirely without religion TC 00:27:09.973 - 00:27:13.392 Velvl um so religion was never part of my identity I guess TC 00:27:13.719 - 00:27:17.645 Velvl and TC 00:27:18.157 - 00:27:19.538 Velvl I grew up TC 00:27:19.538 - 00:27:20.767 Velvl more Italian American than anything TC 00:27:21.229 - 00:27:23.804 Velvl um TC 00:27:24.182 - 00:27:25.239 Velvl and TC 00:27:25.599 - 00:27:26.960 Velvl it's hard--n--it's not TC 00:27:27.877 - 00:27:29.984 Velvl it's not that I TC 00:27:29.984 - 00:27:31.482 Velvl I identify with it in in the in the sense that I know it's like effected the way that I am right now TC 00:27:32.619 - 00:27:38.978 Velvl but I don't like currently partake in like any kind of like TC 00:27:38.978 - 00:27:43.143 Velvl I'm not like an active participant in being Italian American I guess haha um TC 00:27:44.044 - 00:27:48.965 Emma mhm TC 00:27:46.862 - 00:27:47.800 Emma mhm TC 00:27:47.874 - 00:27:48.492 Velvl I was interested in yidishkeyt TC 00:27:49.140 - 00:27:52.610 Velvl when I like from basically when I was like six or seven and I was with the only kinda other Jews in my area hanging out TC 00:27:52.785 - 00:28:00.001 Emma mhm TC 00:27:55.704 - 00:27:56.542 Velvl um but because I didn't really grow up with anything and TC 00:28:00.075 - 00:28:03.852 Velvl the TC 00:28:03.852 - 00:28:05.047 Velvl because like it's only my mother's mother's family TC 00:28:05.509 - 00:28:08.675 Velvl that was ever Jewish like the other stuff crowded it out TC 00:28:09.019 - 00:28:13.332 Emma mhm TC 00:28:10.082 - 00:28:11.139 Velvl um TC 00:28:13.575 - 00:28:14.497 Velvl and TC 00:28:14.925 - 00:28:16.128 Velvl it wasn't really that big of a thing TC 00:28:16.128 - 00:28:18.243 Velvl um but then I got--in my teen years TC 00:28:18.570 - 00:28:22.512 Velvl I g--it was a personal thing to get more into it I guess TC 00:28:22.535 - 00:28:26.731 Velvl [unintelligible] TC 00:28:26.855 - 00:28:28.216 Velvl I guess TC 00:28:28.712 - 00:28:30.022 Velvl fill in the kind of TC 00:28:30.349 - 00:28:32.283 Velvl I do think I was kinda filling in the lack of connection and identity that I had with the other ones that were TC 00:28:33.572 - 00:28:38.695 Velvl presented the other options that were presented to me I was like I actually kinda like this one better TC 00:28:38.719 - 00:28:43.589 Emma mhm TC 00:28:40.507 - 00:28:41.446 Velvl um I like the people that I've met that are from this background TC 00:28:43.646 - 00:28:47.150 Velvl um and it's really easy to TC 00:28:47.274 - 00:28:50.309 Velvl when I'm with them it's really easy to kind of TC 00:28:50.309 - 00:28:52.955 Velvl not assimilate I guess but you know it's really easy to TC 00:28:52.978 - 00:28:56.229 Velvl just TC 00:28:56.302 - 00:28:57.157 Emma match their vibe mhm TC 00:28:57.990 - 00:29:00.228 Velvl exist in their--match their--yeah you know what I mean so um I started TC 00:28:58.007 - 00:29:03.586 Velvl kind of getting into it by myself um TC 00:29:05.077 - 00:29:08.716 Emma mhm TC 00:29:07.760 - 00:29:08.564 Velvl and TC 00:29:09.043 - 00:29:10.336 Velvl I TC 00:29:10.815 - 00:29:12.243 Velvl was attending a reform shul so they were like you have to convert because you weren't raised Jewish so I technically did that but now my religious beliefs are different and I'm like ooh I shouldn't have done that um haha TC 00:29:12.435 - 00:29:25.203 Emma mhm TC 00:29:17.413 - 00:29:18.740 Velvl so that's fun um so I've with my I do kind of TC 00:29:25.513 - 00:29:30.080 Velvl identify as first and foremost Jewish now because all of the cultural practices that I do and other religous practices that I do and the food that I eat and the people that I live with TC 00:29:31.470 - 00:29:40.478 Velvl and the people that I hang out with TC 00:29:40.478 - 00:29:42.247 Emma mhm TC 00:29:41.696 - 00:29:42.534 Velvl um and TC 00:29:42.523 - 00:29:44.401 Velvl share things in common with and everything down to like my sense of humor I feel like is is directly correlated to that directly related to that TC 00:29:44.401 - 00:29:53.367 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:29:51.821 - 00:29:53.367 Velvl I mean I'm studying Jewish studies um TC 00:29:54.757 - 00:29:56.995 Velvl which you definitely don't have to be Jewish to do, there are plenty of people who aren't TC 00:29:57.424 - 00:30:01.167 Emma mhm TC 00:29:59.229 - 00:30:00.354 Velvl um TC 00:30:01.167 - 00:30:02.244 Velvl but TC 00:30:02.638 - 00:30:03.656 Velvl I think TC 00:30:03.656 - 00:30:04.690 Velvl that I mainly identify as Jewish now like TC 00:30:05.844 - 00:30:08.892 Velvl cause if TC 00:30:09.169 - 00:30:10.001 Velvl you know I mean there's the common parlance so you know like a Jew is a Jew is a Jew like if you're a Jew you're a hundred percent a Jew it doesn't matter that I'm like actually more like twenty five percent Ashkenazi you know what I mean it's not, it's not like that at all um TC 00:30:10.001 - 00:30:23.304 Emma mhm TC 00:30:19.243 - 00:30:20.232 Emma mhm TC 00:30:21.420 - 00:30:22.190 Velvl so that now that now I've let that crowd everything else out so I'd say like ethnically I just like fully identify as a Jew because like you know it's not like about the DNA it's about the cultural practices I pertake in and like the the lens through which I see the world is like TC 00:30:23.360 - 00:30:36.635 Emma mhm TC 00:30:33.452 - 00:30:34.070 Velvl no--no longer Italian Catholic not that it really was to begin with but TC 00:30:37.097 - 00:30:41.326 Velvl when you're Italian American regardless if you're brought up totally secular it still kind of seeps in there you know TC 00:30:41.720 - 00:30:48.430 Emma mhm TC 00:30:47.188 - 00:30:48.079 Emma yo TC 00:30:48.079 - 00:30:48.869 Velvl um TC 00:30:49.112 - 00:30:50.034 Velvl same thing with you know when you're brought up you know a secular Jew it does it does seep in there you know so TC 00:30:50.310 - 00:30:55.619 Emma mhm TC 00:30:54.731 - 00:30:56.075 Velvl yeah TC 00:30:55.997 - 00:30:56.800 Emma yo TC 00:30:56.773 - 00:30:57.459 Emma and bistu a yidishist? TC 00:30:57.971 - 00:31:00.648 Velvl I don't identify as a Yiddishist I guess TC 00:31:02.089 - 00:31:04.900 Emma what do you think a Yiddishist is TC 00:31:05.548 - 00:31:08.022 Velvl um TC 00:31:08.805 - 00:31:09.794 Velvl I know multiple people who use the word who use it to mean totally different things TC 00:31:10.205 - 00:31:15.380 Emma mhm TC 00:31:12.787 - 00:31:13.355 Emma and that's why I'm asking haha TC 00:31:14.644 - 00:31:16.764 Velvl um TC 00:31:15.994 - 00:31:17.138 Velvl so and I don't think that TC 00:31:17.138 - 00:31:18.893 Velvl I guess if you use the term of like literally just somebody who learns or speaks Yiddish who's like really interested in Yiddish then that would be it TC 00:31:18.893 - 00:31:29.454 Velvl um TC 00:31:29.797 - 00:31:30.871 Velvl then I guess I I would identify as a Yiddishist but I don't feel like it's something that I actively do enough to make it an identity, if that makes sense like I think that TC 00:31:31.232 - 00:31:40.962 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:31:38.505 - 00:31:39.764 Velvl that definition does fit for me TC 00:31:41.374 - 00:31:43.797 Velvl but because I'm also doing eighty seven other things and it's not what I'm studying right now and TC 00:31:44.040 - 00:31:50.525 Velvl what I'm studying is kind of taking up my entire life TC 00:31:50.525 - 00:31:53.655 Emma mhm TC 00:31:53.085 - 00:31:53.703 Velvl that I can really like TC 00:31:53.655 - 00:31:55.390 Velvl I don't wanna self advertize as as like being super involved in something that's actually lower on my priorities list right now TC 00:31:55.852 - 00:32:03.558 Velvl um TC 00:32:03.767 - 00:32:04.891 Velvl but TC 00:32:06.298 - 00:32:07.507 Velvl as just TC 00:32:07.834 - 00:32:08.857 Velvl as a as a lover of TC 00:32:09.673 - 00:32:11.877 Velvl Yiddish and TC 00:32:12.373 - 00:32:14.071 Velvl consuming Yiddish TC 00:32:14.533 - 00:32:16.079 Velvl based culture and and all of that definitely absolutely. I wouldn't say that I'm like, I don't think very hard about the linguistics of Yiddish I think some of my some of the people that I know that identify as either like yeah no like I love like TC 00:32:16.474 - 00:32:29.900 Velvl doing linguistics with Yiddish and like really thinking super hard about Yiddish and I'm like TC 00:32:30.767 - 00:32:35.722 Emma mm TC 00:32:32.488 - 00:32:33.545 Velvl that's cool um I just kind of TC 00:32:35.745 - 00:32:38.523 Velvl one of the reasons I really enjoyed picking it up was because I was TC 00:32:39.778 - 00:32:43.319 Velvl in my undergrad and I was thinking so much about TC 00:32:43.319 - 00:32:45.880 Velvl languages from like a meta perspective haha that I was really I was really psyched that I was just like TC 00:32:46.123 - 00:32:51.787 Emma mhm TC 00:32:48.604 - 00:32:49.627 Velvl s--like I met friends that were just spoke like a a language that I was interested in learning and I could just kind of hang out with them and kind of get it um TC 00:32:51.877 - 00:33:01.895 Emma mhm TC 00:32:56.518 - 00:32:57.406 Emma mhm nisht akademishe TC 00:32:59.674 - 00:33:02.435 Velvl yeah not in an academic way at all, so I guess yeah my my interest in Yiddish is not academic at all TC 00:33:02.120 - 00:33:07.568 Emma mhm TC 00:33:04.162 - 00:33:05.253 Velvl so I think yeah there's like either an enthusiast or an academic TC 00:33:07.568 - 00:33:12.037 Velvl are the two kind of main definitions that I've heard and I'd say I'm definitely an enthusiast TC 00:33:12.161 - 00:33:17.842 Velvl not an academic about it yeah TC 00:33:17.899 - 00:33:20.508 Emma mhm TC 00:33:18.827 - 00:33:19.512 Emma yeah TC 00:33:20.362 - 00:33:21.132 Emma and TC 00:33:21.830 - 00:33:23.343 Emma filstu oytentish oder like yourself when you re--when you speak TC 00:33:24.244 - 00:33:29.536 Velvl mhm TC 00:33:27.399 - 00:33:28.186 Emma both and Yiddish and French TC 00:33:29.964 - 00:33:32.675 Velvl mhm TC 00:33:32.006 - 00:33:32.962 Velvl sorry um what did you say again TC 00:33:35.752 - 00:33:37.535 Emma do you feel like yourself when you're speaking English French and Yiddish TC 00:33:37.727 - 00:33:42.074 Velvl oh TC 00:33:39.566 - 00:33:40.218 Velvl um I would say when I'm speaking English and Yiddish I both feel like myself when I'm speaking French I don't feel like myself TC 00:33:42.452 - 00:33:48.622 Emma ober your French iz beser vi dayn TC 00:33:49.202 - 00:33:52.047 Velvl yeah TC 00:33:52.374 - 00:33:53.195 Emma mhm TC 00:33:52.408 - 00:33:53.161 Velvl um TC 00:33:54.281 - 00:33:55.270 Velvl yes my French is a lot better um in fact it seems almost like one often comes at the expense of the other, like if I if I if I have access to more French in my brain or if I'm better at French then the Yiddish goes away and vice versa cause the TC 00:33:56.525 - 00:34:09.676 Emma mm mhm TC 00:34:02.347 - 00:34:03.961 Emma mhm TC 00:34:07.984 - 00:34:09.159 Velvl I think it's cause the two groups in which or the two TC 00:34:09.676 - 00:34:12.182 Velvl universes in which I speak both are entirely separate universes TC 00:34:12.182 - 00:34:15.909 Emma mhm TC 00:34:15.459 - 00:34:16.044 Velvl um TC 00:34:16.117 - 00:34:16.890 Velvl and it really just depends on which one I'm spending more time in TC 00:34:16.890 - 00:34:19.481 Velvl but um TC 00:34:19.481 - 00:34:21.207 Velvl I don't feel like myself when I'm speaking French it could be that I don't have any connection to it TC 00:34:23.087 - 00:34:27.789 Velvl um even though my family does speak a little French it's because my mom's adopted TC 00:34:28.487 - 00:34:34.457 Velvl by French Canadians TC 00:34:34.457 - 00:34:36.580 Velvl um TC 00:34:36.924 - 00:34:37.930 Velvl but then like also knows her biological family TC 00:34:37.937 - 00:34:40.985 Velvl um so those people when they come around they speak French my mom speaks a little bit of French but it's not TC 00:34:41.143 - 00:34:47.634 Emma mhm TC 00:34:43.640 - 00:34:44.613 Velvl um let's see um TC 00:34:49.057 - 00:34:51.549 Velvl and because it's almost all of the time at work TC 00:34:52.820 - 00:34:55.801 Velvl if I'm working I have to speak French TC 00:34:56.634 - 00:34:58.653 Emma mm TC 00:34:56.702 - 00:34:58.180 Velvl if I'm TC 00:34:59.081 - 00:35:00.324 Velvl going and doing interaction within the like in like in uh service workers or something it's in French TC 00:35:00.650 - 00:35:05.352 Emma mhm TC 00:35:03.705 - 00:35:04.829 Velvl um and I don't feel like myself in those situations either TC 00:35:05.477 - 00:35:09.166 Emma mhm TC 00:35:07.299 - 00:35:08.322 Velvl like I've always had a different voice when I've been speaking TC 00:35:09.375 - 00:35:12.662 Velvl you know at work TC 00:35:12.662 - 00:35:13.874 Emma mhm TC 00:35:13.121 - 00:35:13.874 Velvl and so I think that those things ha--mi--might have become associated or something but yeah I don't don't feel like it doesn't feel like something that's mine it feels like a a French is like a thing that I put on for uh utilitarian reasons haha TC 00:35:14.015 - 00:35:28.218 Emma mm mhm TC 00:35:17.357 - 00:35:18.903 Emma mhm mhm ober yidish TC 00:35:27.499 - 00:35:30.260 Velvl yeah TC 00:35:28.325 - 00:35:29.180 Velvl Yiddish it's always so TC 00:35:30.266 - 00:35:32.909 Velvl natural to the point where when I'm in a group of people that speak Yiddish it's almost always like a Yinglish situation TC 00:35:34.249 - 00:35:41.611 Emma mhm TC 00:35:40.678 - 00:35:41.465 Velvl um but I don't notice when it's one or the other because TC 00:35:41.611 - 00:35:45.771 Emma mhm TC 00:35:44.779 - 00:35:45.380 Velvl I'm usually TC 00:35:45.771 - 00:35:47.405 Velvl in the same way that I understand French a lot better than I than I can produce it I understand Yiddish a lot better than I can produce sentences, and it just it's so like TC 00:35:47.462 - 00:35:55.809 Velvl I guess TC 00:35:56.979 - 00:35:58.036 Emma you're focused on what's being said not velkhe shprakh TC 00:35:57.013 - 00:36:00.449 Velvl yeah I'm focused--yeah I'm I'm focused on what's being said and I'm it's it's like super in the moment and it's with friends and people that I'm really comfortable with TC 00:35:59.038 - 00:36:08.212 Emma mhm TC 00:36:05.248 - 00:36:06.187 Velvl um and we're talking about things that I'm engaged with and TC 00:36:08.606 - 00:36:12.526 Velvl I guess because we have so many similarities you know I'm like TC 00:36:12.526 - 00:36:16.379 Velvl I don't TC 00:36:16.436 - 00:36:17.172 Velvl feel the need to change the way that I'm acting at all you know I'm not I'm not scripted you know or anything um TC 00:36:17.955 - 00:36:25.407 Velvl yeah none of the interactions are all like very just like natural and unscripted and yeah I feel like myself TC 00:36:26.375 - 00:36:32.714 Emma mhm TC 00:36:32.417 - 00:36:33.136 Emma and yo ikh meyn az efsher du host shoyn gezogt ober TC 00:36:34.172 - 00:36:40.240 Emma hostu andere reasons far far vos du host ongehoybn tsu lernen zikh yidish? TC 00:36:40.297 - 00:36:47.159 Velvl um TC 00:36:47.351 - 00:36:48.273 Velvl I mean a lot of it was TC 00:36:50.017 - 00:36:51.935 Velvl simply to TC 00:36:52.009 - 00:36:53.589 Velvl connect with TC 00:36:53.899 - 00:36:55.344 Velvl some you know I couple years ago I met some really cool people and I really wanted to connect with them but then I was like TC 00:36:57.071 - 00:37:03.511 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:37:00.716 - 00:37:02.448 Velvl the whole the whole sphere around TC 00:37:05.745 - 00:37:08.877 Velvl you know non-Hasidic Yiddish speakers I guess is like TC 00:37:10.031 - 00:37:14.024 Velvl a really beautiful warm TC 00:37:15.904 - 00:37:19.610 Velvl group of people that are that happen to be you know it's quite small but it's still like you know an--and the more that I interact with those people the more that TC 00:37:19.734 - 00:37:28.486 Velvl I was like I love TC 00:37:28.492 - 00:37:30.579 Velvl speaking Yiddish is really cool it makes me feel more connected to my culture but in a s--in a totally separate sense there's like a new culture around it that I haven't explored yet that I TC 00:37:30.720 - 00:37:42.374 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:37:39.630 - 00:37:41.497 Velvl um TC 00:37:42.752 - 00:37:43.623 Velvl of TC 00:37:43.714 - 00:37:44.450 Velvl people who also feel the exact same way and so I think that like that was also another factor where it was like TC 00:37:44.540 - 00:37:51.200 Velvl there's a there's a world here that I wanna explore TC 00:37:51.257 - 00:37:54.929 Velvl um TC 00:37:55.239 - 00:37:56.195 Velvl that I didn't know about before I started TC 00:37:57.079 - 00:38:00.177 Velvl um TC 00:38:00.487 - 00:38:01.662 Velvl and also I kind of TC 00:38:02.158 - 00:38:06.303 Velvl I wanted to TC 00:38:06.360 - 00:38:08.193 Velvl speak quote unquote a Jewish language and most people were like well why would you have to speak any of the kind of like diasporic languages TC 00:38:09.549 - 00:38:19.533 Velvl um which TC 00:38:19.742 - 00:38:21.693 Velvl I didn't as as somebody who didn't grow up like having a Jewish identity at all I also didn't really have any connection to Israel and so like TC 00:38:22.222 - 00:38:29.813 Emma mhm TC 00:38:28.753 - 00:38:29.742 Velvl the closest thing that I that I have haha is you know some people in Lithuania and that always felt more TC 00:38:29.813 - 00:38:37.150 Emma like current family TC 00:38:37.899 - 00:38:40.306 Velvl um TC 00:38:37.933 - 00:38:38.905 Emma in Lithuania TC 00:38:40.312 - 00:38:41.791 Velvl on no just like as in like the the most like um TC 00:38:41.089 - 00:38:45.571 Emma you know your TC 00:38:41.983 - 00:38:43.799 Emma recent ancestors mhm TC 00:38:45.105 - 00:38:47.917 Velvl recent ancestry is is there TC 00:38:46.100 - 00:38:49.081 Velvl um and also just like it's that's just the way that I kind of TC 00:38:49.138 - 00:38:53.215 Velvl identified with Jewishness to begin with TC 00:38:54.200 - 00:38:56.725 Emma mhm TC 00:38:55.804 - 00:38:56.759 Velvl um and TC 00:38:56.833 - 00:38:58.801 Velvl I TC 00:38:59.044 - 00:39:00.269 Velvl cho--so like I wanted to speak a Jewish language and I chose TC 00:39:01.541 - 00:39:04.944 Velvl Yiddish out of all of them because it was the one that I guess I had the most recent connection to and also had the most like vibrant group of people TC 00:39:05.642 - 00:39:12.740 Emma mhm TC 00:39:09.945 - 00:39:10.698 Velvl um TC 00:39:12.847 - 00:39:13.904 Velvl and I think that TC 00:39:14.653 - 00:39:16.014 Velvl you know TC 00:39:16.779 - 00:39:17.752 Velvl the Jewish people in general are the way that we are TC 00:39:18.821 - 00:39:22.109 Velvl thanks to and in spite of TC 00:39:22.109 - 00:39:24.907 Velvl diaspora existing TC 00:39:25.048 - 00:39:26.645 Velvl um and I TC 00:39:26.904 - 00:39:28.315 Velvl think that TC 00:39:28.625 - 00:39:29.947 Velvl the kind of TC 00:39:29.947 - 00:39:31.471 Velvl fruits of that TC 00:39:33.148 - 00:39:34.694 Velvl you know culturally and linguistically shouldn't shouldn't go away TC 00:39:35.021 - 00:39:38.542 Velvl um and weirdly I thought that that was TC 00:39:38.767 - 00:39:41.903 Velvl a kind of normative position but I've definitely rubbed up against a lot of people who don't believe that TC 00:39:41.903 - 00:39:47.199 Emma mhm TC 00:39:46.682 - 00:39:47.215 Velvl um TC 00:39:47.627 - 00:39:48.751 Velvl like people who asked me why I like started spe--like learning Yiddish before I learned Hebrew TC 00:39:48.926 - 00:39:54.489 Velvl and TC 00:39:56.030 - 00:39:57.104 Velvl like TC 00:39:57.212 - 00:39:57.900 Velvl actively judging me for that so I guess it might not necessarily be a normative position but that was that was mine I guess TC 00:39:57.900 - 00:40:04.900 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:40:04.620 - 00:40:05.845 Emma un TC 00:40:06.392 - 00:40:07.663 Emma if there are other reasons far vos redstu yidish itst TC 00:40:07.663 - 00:40:11.785 Velvl hm not sure if there are other reasons um TC 00:40:13.699 - 00:40:19.345 Velvl yeah I think it's the same reasons why I learned you know TC 00:40:27.975 - 00:40:31.428 Velvl I would like to I mean even when I'm not actively learning or actively seeing people in those groups I'm still trying to text every day and I'm still trying to TC 00:40:32.075 - 00:40:41.283 Velvl use it so I don't lose it um because I definitely have noticed that happening TC 00:40:42.335 - 00:40:47.139 Velvl um TC 00:40:47.280 - 00:40:48.315 Velvl and so in a in a more like in a more TC 00:40:48.315 - 00:40:51.205 Velvl um TC 00:40:51.650 - 00:40:52.674 Velvl here and now kind of TC 00:40:54.722 - 00:40:56.735 Velvl context I TC 00:40:56.735 - 00:40:58.242 Velvl speak Yiddish so that I can keep speaking Yiddish TC 00:40:59.008 - 00:41:02.022 Emma haha TC 00:41:01.624 - 00:41:02.582 Emma mhm yo TC 00:41:02.582 - 00:41:03.165 Emma fair enough TC 00:41:03.165 - 00:41:04.638 Emma and bistu a yid TC 00:41:05.505 - 00:41:08.047 Velvl yeah I identify TC 00:41:08.880 - 00:41:10.375 Velvl ikh bin a yid I identify as Jewish TC 00:41:10.534 - 00:41:13.599 Emma and hostu a denominatsye? TC 00:41:14.263 - 00:41:17.649 Velvl ooh haha that's complicated I go to a conservative shul um TC 00:41:18.667 - 00:41:23.589 Velvl and have TC 00:41:24.034 - 00:41:25.124 Velvl for the last couple of years TC 00:41:25.249 - 00:41:27.490 Velvl um TC 00:41:27.490 - 00:41:28.600 Velvl in my late teens I kind of TC 00:41:29.248 - 00:41:31.464 Velvl was reform but a lot of that was just due to proximity of TC 00:41:31.464 - 00:41:36.194 Velvl where I was in the Boston area TC 00:41:36.994 - 00:41:39.130 Velvl um TC 00:41:39.592 - 00:41:40.599 Velvl and TC 00:41:42.410 - 00:41:43.990 Velvl um TC 00:41:44.419 - 00:41:45.462 Velvl also thinking that because I identify as LGBT there wasn't any other place for me which was definitely wrong TC 00:41:45.462 - 00:41:51.753 Velvl um but as somebody who hadn't grown up on the inside of those communities I you know TC 00:41:51.911 - 00:41:56.849 Velvl I didn't I wasn't in a place to understand nuance I guess in in that respect, currently I go to like a like an egalitarian conservative shul um TC 00:41:56.990 - 00:42:06.130 Velvl but I I say denominations based off of the like where I go in a se--and not necessarily what I identify as? I identify a--a lot of the people that I in fact speak Yiddish with are TC 00:42:06.238 - 00:42:19.563 Velvl kind of the same way in which TC 00:42:19.991 - 00:42:22.021 Velvl they think that TC 00:42:22.021 - 00:42:23.495 Velvl s--when we're talking about TC 00:42:24.969 - 00:42:27.207 Velvl kind of TC 00:42:27.804 - 00:42:28.965 Velvl the conservative movement as a as a thing they're not shtark enough about certain things TC 00:42:28.965 - 00:42:34.244 Velvl but also they need to be more inclusive about other things TC 00:42:34.250 - 00:42:37.585 Velvl um TC 00:42:37.592 - 00:42:38.632 Velvl and so I know a few of those people identify as like open Orthodox because they are way more TC 00:42:38.807 - 00:42:46.411 Velvl um TC 00:42:46.569 - 00:42:47.761 Velvl like into TC 00:42:48.949 - 00:42:50.832 Velvl kashrus then then maybe like the conservative movement is broadly or they wouldn't drive a car to shul or something and they think that that's crazy TC 00:42:50.855 - 00:42:58.375 Velvl um TC 00:42:58.449 - 00:42:59.374 Velvl but I think TC 00:42:59.374 - 00:43:00.502 Velvl one of the reasons why TC 00:43:00.744 - 00:43:02.577 Velvl I go to conservative shul and the and the and the rest of the social group does as well TC 00:43:03.664 - 00:43:07.944 Velvl um is because we know that we won't be excluded we'll be included and a lot of us are TC 00:43:08.085 - 00:43:15.200 Velvl trans and somewhere TC 00:43:15.206 - 00:43:17.540 Velvl where if TC 00:43:17.540 - 00:43:18.457 Velvl we were separated by gender then we would not necessarily know where to go TC 00:43:18.497 - 00:43:23.080 Emma mhm TC 00:43:21.079 - 00:43:22.119 Velvl but we still want as TC 00:43:23.087 - 00:43:24.751 Velvl close to something that maybe TC 00:43:24.842 - 00:43:27.429 Velvl you know TC 00:43:27.429 - 00:43:28.497 Velvl modern Orthodox people would TC 00:43:28.774 - 00:43:30.593 Velvl consider you know acceptable or kosher TC 00:43:30.593 - 00:43:34.066 Velvl um as possible TC 00:43:34.072 - 00:43:36.395 Velvl um TC 00:43:36.485 - 00:43:37.525 Velvl we don't like wanna compromise on that I guess but we also want to be included and it's really hard so a lot of us have started to TC 00:43:38.257 - 00:43:46.101 Velvl hang out and daven together when we can TC 00:43:46.101 - 00:43:48.157 Velvl um because we all know TC 00:43:48.214 - 00:43:49.814 Velvl each other personally and TC 00:43:49.814 - 00:43:51.839 Velvl you know it's like TC 00:43:51.839 - 00:43:53.050 Velvl it it's it gets really complicated like you know I have friends who are women who TC 00:43:54.643 - 00:43:59.564 Velvl like TC 00:44:00.279 - 00:44:01.404 Velvl want to TC 00:44:01.916 - 00:44:03.221 Velvl pray in egalitarian space but don't want to count themselves for a minyan personally and there's just a lot of nuance in that TC 00:44:03.221 - 00:44:10.275 Velvl and so I feel like TC 00:44:10.275 - 00:44:11.849 Velvl I don't necessarily identify with a deno--denomination when I go to an established like a formal community it's a conservative community but in informal community and around friends we literally do our own thing that's like TC 00:44:12.379 - 00:44:24.674 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:44:22.976 - 00:44:24.573 Velvl half like TC 00:44:25.220 - 00:44:26.733 Velvl it's kinda renewal with it but if they were like a lot more shtark about halokhe I think haha TC 00:44:27.127 - 00:44:32.319 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:44:32.004 - 00:44:33.601 Emma yo TC 00:44:34.114 - 00:44:34.833 Emma and vi aktiv bistu in TC 00:44:35.345 - 00:44:38.579 Emma yidishkeyt Jewish life Yiddish things TC 00:44:39.497 - 00:44:44.317 Velvl um well TC 00:44:44.087 - 00:44:45.835 Velvl before um my friends who lived in the Moyshe house moved out of the Moyshe house I did a lot of events with them and I helped organize a lot of their events and TC 00:44:45.875 - 00:44:54.965 Emma mhm TC 00:44:51.950 - 00:44:52.940 Velvl um TC 00:44:55.157 - 00:44:56.214 Velvl we would do kind of TC 00:44:56.439 - 00:44:58.728 Velvl we'd do like mincha as a group um a lot um TC 00:44:59.662 - 00:45:03.925 Velvl now TC 00:45:04.252 - 00:45:05.394 Velvl nowadays TC 00:45:05.467 - 00:45:06.862 Velvl um TC 00:45:07.003 - 00:45:08.026 Velvl because it's the summertime and a lot of people aren't there and a lot of students especially aren't there I feel like oftentimes my, even if I'm here all the time in Montreal TC 00:45:09.045 - 00:45:19.653 Velvl my TC 00:45:19.862 - 00:45:21.104 Velvl active TC 00:45:21.448 - 00:45:22.871 Velvl my activity I guess in in Jewish life and in Jewish community TC 00:45:22.871 - 00:45:27.297 Velvl in communal life TC 00:45:27.489 - 00:45:28.676 Velvl I guess is TC 00:45:28.676 - 00:45:30.352 Velvl um TC 00:45:30.662 - 00:45:31.719 Velvl still tied to the people who are students and come and go TC 00:45:32.349 - 00:45:36.005 Emma mhm TC 00:45:35.488 - 00:45:37.000 Velvl um because I like being in the company of people in their you know TC 00:45:36.146 - 00:45:40.561 Velvl twenties broadly TC 00:45:40.837 - 00:45:42.530 Velvl um TC 00:45:42.530 - 00:45:43.632 Velvl so that can be that can be kind of tough cause I always have the the want I guess the urge but not necessarily the bodies around to do that TC 00:45:44.145 - 00:45:54.247 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:45:52.869 - 00:45:54.652 Velvl um because you know people who I just described TC 00:45:54.337 - 00:45:57.718 Velvl you know my denomination and people who kind of TC 00:45:57.718 - 00:46:00.136 Velvl identify with TC 00:46:01.914 - 00:46:03.359 Velvl that when I describe it are TC 00:46:03.585 - 00:46:06.380 Velvl not TC 00:46:06.875 - 00:46:08.000 Velvl a constant presence here usually TC 00:46:08.175 - 00:46:10.880 Emma mhm TC 00:46:09.795 - 00:46:11.746 Velvl um TC 00:46:10.880 - 00:46:11.847 Emma yeah TC 00:46:12.107 - 00:46:12.927 Velvl yeah so um but in in a like a Jewish life like in a in a in a non-communal way TC 00:46:13.018 - 00:46:18.969 Velvl um TC 00:46:19.042 - 00:46:20.116 Velvl I TC 00:46:20.359 - 00:46:21.140 Velvl like have like lot of home-based practices and it's really nice that I live with other Jews now cause we all kind of do TC 00:46:21.140 - 00:46:27.372 Velvl um TC 00:46:27.885 - 00:46:28.824 Velvl we're not TC 00:46:29.302 - 00:46:30.371 Velvl um we kind of all of us prefer doing things in community then doing things alone TC 00:46:30.371 - 00:46:35.442 Velvl um so we're not as involved TC 00:46:35.442 - 00:46:38.425 Velvl um as maybe other members of our small community are in like doing things TC 00:46:38.533 - 00:46:43.522 Velvl at home TC 00:46:43.663 - 00:46:44.647 Velvl but TC 00:46:44.647 - 00:46:45.462 Velvl um we like marking time TC 00:46:46.042 - 00:46:48.427 Velvl you know Jewishly and we all TC 00:46:48.427 - 00:46:51.655 Velvl I mean the ones the ones that currently live here have our mezuzahs up and yeah TC 00:46:51.797 - 00:46:56.397 Velvl um TC 00:46:56.960 - 00:46:57.916 Velvl yeah so I guess yeah we are yeah we're more community people but we're pretty I would say like TC 00:46:59.812 - 00:47:05.982 Emma mhm TC 00:47:01.567 - 00:47:02.101 Velvl more involved then the average university student TC 00:47:07.355 - 00:47:11.011 Velvl for sure and like maybe less involved than the average like TC 00:47:11.844 - 00:47:15.343 Velvl f--Jewish family that like lives in Montreal you know TC 00:47:15.343 - 00:47:18.115 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:47:17.177 - 00:47:18.520 Emma and TC 00:47:19.590 - 00:47:20.967 Emma vos iz der batsiung tsvishn TC 00:47:21.514 - 00:47:25.169 Emma dayn ethnishkeyt and redn yidish I think you've talked a little about that already TC 00:47:27.572 - 00:47:33.117 Velvl um TC 00:47:32.465 - 00:47:33.978 Velvl I guess TC 00:47:38.186 - 00:47:39.580 Velvl so the connection that I make TC 00:47:41.780 - 00:47:43.529 Velvl with like my ethnic identity and my Yiddish is TC 00:47:45.004 - 00:47:48.001 Velvl more of an afterthought TC 00:47:48.463 - 00:47:50.195 Velvl like a oh this this can oh this is a cool connection than it is like TC 00:47:50.285 - 00:47:54.616 Emma mhm TC 00:47:52.952 - 00:47:54.177 Velvl um the reason I guess TC 00:47:54.943 - 00:47:57.400 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:47:56.310 - 00:47:57.215 Velvl um TC 00:47:57.727 - 00:47:58.666 Velvl it's like it's a reason but it was like what what got me there was I just found a lot of Jews that that TC 00:47:59.297 - 00:48:06.018 Velvl we agreed a lot in religiously and we're all very uh close to the same age and a lot of us were queer and so TC 00:48:06.018 - 00:48:13.972 Velvl um TC 00:48:14.349 - 00:48:15.274 Velvl I was like this is an inroad to like like learn this language and I love these people TC 00:48:15.274 - 00:48:19.659 Velvl um TC 00:48:19.699 - 00:48:20.570 Velvl and then afterwards I was like oh yeah I'm also kinda litvish I guess haha TC 00:48:21.622 - 00:48:25.126 Emma mhm TC 00:48:24.727 - 00:48:25.497 Velvl so like that's cool I guess but I never like I g--I think there's if there was a stronger connection maybe I would try to like nail down a dialect and I don't or nail down the dialect and I don't really feel the need to so TC 00:48:26.381 - 00:48:38.626 Emma mhm TC 00:48:34.127 - 00:48:34.762 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:48:38.194 - 00:48:39.099 Emma and prubirstu tsu farbesern dayn yidish? TC 00:48:39.763 - 00:48:44.313 Velvl do I wanna make it do I wanna w--yeah improve it yeah um TC 00:48:48.842 - 00:48:53.898 Emma improve it yeah TC 00:48:51.424 - 00:48:52.835 Velvl yes very much so TC 00:48:54.292 - 00:48:56.109 Velvl um TC 00:48:56.587 - 00:48:57.560 Velvl I know like a lot of people who did like yidish vokh and like a bunch of other stuff and I just don't have the money to do a lot of those things TC 00:48:58.494 - 00:49:06.639 Emma they give good scholarships haha TC 00:49:06.390 - 00:49:08.310 Velvl yes yes TC 00:49:07.455 - 00:49:09.789 Emma haha TC 00:49:08.771 - 00:49:09.288 Velvl um TC 00:49:09.789 - 00:49:10.975 Emma but ikh farshtey TC 00:49:10.610 - 00:49:12.005 Velvl I I heard they give good scholarships whenever I'm like thinking about doing it it's always like TC 00:49:12.602 - 00:49:17.307 Velvl the scholarship deadline is passed or or what have you or again when I say I don't have the money it's also like I wanna be working during that time TC 00:49:17.307 - 00:49:26.247 Emma uh huh TC 00:49:18.795 - 00:49:20.037 Emma mhm TC 00:49:25.427 - 00:49:26.298 Velvl and so a lot of it's just like TC 00:49:26.321 - 00:49:29.760 Velvl I can't be making money while I'm TC 00:49:29.760 - 00:49:31.836 Emma mhm TC 00:49:31.789 - 00:49:32.660 Velvl there TC 00:49:31.836 - 00:49:32.744 Velvl or it'll be hard to find a job that will let me take a week off TC 00:49:33.172 - 00:49:37.284 Velvl um TC 00:49:37.661 - 00:49:38.735 Velvl just randomly um TC 00:49:39.095 - 00:49:41.199 Velvl so hopefully I mean it's been a goal of mine to do that for a really long time it's also been a goal of mine to like TC 00:49:41.374 - 00:49:47.645 Velvl um s--set up a retreat with my friends and also who who are fluent and my friends who are learning um all together and kind of put us together and do our own little thing like that TC 00:49:48.005 - 00:49:58.482 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:49:53.642 - 00:49:55.677 Emma yeah TC 00:49:56.072 - 00:49:57.095 Emma mhm TC 00:49:58.046 - 00:49:58.597 Velvl cause um TC 00:49:58.482 - 00:49:59.930 Velvl we TC 00:49:59.936 - 00:50:00.672 Velvl we know ways to get grant money so that would be cool TC 00:50:01.185 - 00:50:04.267 Velvl um TC 00:50:04.594 - 00:50:05.583 Velvl oh grant money TC 00:50:05.775 - 00:50:07.237 Velvl um TC 00:50:07.715 - 00:50:08.823 Velvl so yes the answer to to if I want to is yes and it's just that the ways in which you know the tools available to me are McGill no longer has Yiddish classes at all TC 00:50:09.268 - 00:50:19.370 Velvl Concordia never had Yiddish classes TC 00:50:19.697 - 00:50:22.475 Velvl so I can't TC 00:50:22.667 - 00:50:24.213 Velvl do that like there's no way for me to do that for free in in the slightest um yeah TC 00:50:24.624 - 00:50:31.216 Emma mm TC 00:50:27.645 - 00:50:28.195 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:50:28.657 - 00:50:30.237 Emma hm TC 00:50:31.290 - 00:50:32.127 Emma and TC 00:50:33.230 - 00:50:34.675 Emma ikh meyn az du host a bisl geredt frier vegn dos ober TC 00:50:35.171 - 00:50:39.640 Emma vi reagirn mentshn ven zey hern az du lernst zikh yidish TC 00:50:39.640 - 00:50:44.817 Velvl can you repeat that TC 00:50:46.140 - 00:50:47.281 Emma like TC 00:50:47.304 - 00:50:48.057 Emma how do people react TC 00:50:48.165 - 00:50:49.745 Velvl oh TC 00:50:49.346 - 00:50:50.099 Velvl um TC 00:50:50.915 - 00:50:52.023 Velvl ha yeah some people TC 00:50:53.599 - 00:50:55.719 Velvl is--some's immediate reaction is why not learn Hebrew TC 00:50:56.501 - 00:50:59.752 Emma mhm TC 00:50:59.505 - 00:51:00.646 Velvl um and to and to which I say yes I'm also learning that because I wouldn't be able to read half the words in Yiddish if I didn't TC 00:51:00.349 - 00:51:06.114 Emma haha TC 00:51:02.846 - 00:51:03.498 Emma haha TC 00:51:05.310 - 00:51:06.249 Velvl um TC 00:51:06.424 - 00:51:07.396 Velvl wouldn't know wh-- TC 00:51:08.077 - 00:51:09.829 Velvl where the vowels are um TC 00:51:09.829 - 00:51:12.104 Velvl some people say TC 00:51:12.380 - 00:51:14.095 Velvl a a lot of people's reactions are are you religious and I'm like not in the way that you think that I am TC 00:51:14.287 - 00:51:19.799 Velvl um TC 00:51:20.075 - 00:51:21.284 Velvl or TC 00:51:22.421 - 00:51:23.565 Velvl they think that TC 00:51:23.565 - 00:51:25.047 Velvl Yiddish is a dead language TC 00:51:25.273 - 00:51:27.219 Velvl or a dying language TC 00:51:27.219 - 00:51:28.962 Velvl um TC 00:51:29.559 - 00:51:30.700 Velvl either of those um really or it's just like they assume that I'm doing it for a specific academic reason like I'm like I'm learning Yiddish so I can translate this you know poetry anthology or something and I'm like no TC 00:51:32.462 - 00:51:48.824 Emma mm mhm TC 00:51:41.220 - 00:51:43.120 Emma mhm TC 00:51:46.991 - 00:51:48.082 Velvl um TC 00:51:49.337 - 00:51:50.444 Velvl most people are just like I think that that's kind of cool I guess I don't really know why you're doing that though um TC 00:51:50.990 - 00:51:58.240 Velvl as when it's when it's TC 00:51:59.512 - 00:52:01.970 Velvl other TC 00:52:02.246 - 00:52:03.252 Velvl Jews it can be interesting cause a l--the I would say the biggest reaction the biggest TC 00:52:03.259 - 00:52:09.310 Velvl the most common group of people that undertakes the why not just learn Hebrew reaction is actually other Jews um TC 00:52:10.869 - 00:52:18.524 Emma mhm TC 00:52:16.337 - 00:52:16.854 Velvl um a lot of them are like why would you do that it's--oh I think people TC 00:52:19.864 - 00:52:25.455 Velvl mm it almost seems like people have like a knee-jerk almost like a trauma response to it like TC 00:52:25.455 - 00:52:31.569 Velvl we don't do that anymore TC 00:52:32.030 - 00:52:33.813 Velvl like TC 00:52:34.072 - 00:52:34.809 Velvl um TC 00:52:35.017 - 00:52:36.057 Velvl the more religious somebody is TC 00:52:36.688 - 00:52:39.230 Velvl like the more TC 00:52:39.253 - 00:52:40.529 Velvl that kind of goes--but but some people some people also just really do understand it like this is cool this is part of like a TC 00:52:40.552 - 00:52:47.077 Emma mhm TC 00:52:45.649 - 00:52:46.503 Velvl a you know kind of a cultural like shared like heritage that we have and TC 00:52:47.741 - 00:52:52.797 Velvl um TC 00:52:53.141 - 00:52:54.201 Velvl but yeah I think confused would be like the main one word answer I would give um TC 00:52:54.201 - 00:52:59.885 Emma haha TC 00:52:56.432 - 00:52:57.421 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:52:58.035 - 00:52:59.547 Velvl yeah and me me explaining myself doesn't make them any less confused cause they don't have like one of those really cut and dry like I wanna translate things you know like I'm a linguist you know TC 00:53:01.309 - 00:53:11.934 Emma mhm TC 00:53:05.173 - 00:53:06.196 Emma mm TC 00:53:10.303 - 00:53:11.512 Velvl they all--when in my undergrad I was talking about it they all just assumed I was doing it because I wanted to like you know really get deep into Yiddish linguistics and like no actually I never thought about that at all TC 00:53:12.210 - 00:53:24.134 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:53:23.617 - 00:53:25.467 Velvl yeah TC 00:53:25.069 - 00:53:25.889 Emma hm TC 00:53:26.570 - 00:53:27.391 Emma and TC 00:53:28.393 - 00:53:29.635 Emma do you think Yiddish is an endangered language? TC 00:53:29.692 - 00:53:32.639 Velvl it's interesting because I think about TC 00:53:33.742 - 00:53:36.706 Velvl the Yiddish speaking world as kind of two worlds the frum world and the not frum world and I'm a part of the not frum world TC 00:53:36.814 - 00:53:43.372 Velvl um and in that case I think TC 00:53:43.682 - 00:53:46.201 Velvl it feels like it right like I don't know statistically if it is but it feels like it to to me and a lot of the people TC 00:53:46.201 - 00:53:54.425 Emma mhm TC 00:53:47.259 - 00:53:48.434 Emma mhm TC 00:53:51.360 - 00:53:52.332 Velvl um but TC 00:53:54.870 - 00:53:56.402 Velvl as far as like the frum world absolutely not I don't think endangered in the slightest there's um some people TC 00:53:57.789 - 00:54:03.824 Emma mhm TC 00:54:00.624 - 00:54:01.529 Velvl you don't see as much like TC 00:54:04.674 - 00:54:06.828 Velvl or I don't interact with as many language purists that like TC 00:54:07.914 - 00:54:11.553 Velvl speak Hasidic Yiddish and are like oh I'm not allowed to use this English borrowing it's always so so full of English borrowings and that's chill um TC 00:54:11.576 - 00:54:19.315 Velvl but that doesn't TC 00:54:19.710 - 00:54:20.964 Velvl that doesn't make a language endangered um TC 00:54:20.964 - 00:54:24.125 Velvl so TC 00:54:24.755 - 00:54:26.099 Velvl yeah I I do I kind of concieve of it in in in kind of like two two separate subgroups I guess um definitely in the like kind of like TC 00:54:26.966 - 00:54:36.595 Emma mhm mhm TC 00:54:32.231 - 00:54:33.794 Velvl more YIVO-y subgroup haha TC 00:54:39.538 - 00:54:41.793 Velvl that I'm in it it really does feel like like that a lot of the people that taught us are older TC 00:54:42.795 - 00:54:50.163 Velvl um TC 00:54:50.591 - 00:54:51.597 Velvl you know that actually TC 00:54:51.975 - 00:54:53.420 Velvl did TC 00:54:53.494 - 00:54:54.326 Velvl teach people learned for real TC 00:54:54.326 - 00:54:56.710 Velvl um TC 00:54:56.801 - 00:54:57.824 Velvl there's interest TC 00:54:58.590 - 00:55:00.063 Velvl I see a lot of interest but also a lot of people have no idea or like there or the resources are spread too thin for them TC 00:55:00.063 - 00:55:06.780 Velvl um like I'm really lucky that TC 00:55:06.780 - 00:55:09.282 Velvl like I went to a university that even like offered Yiddish classes even if they stopped TC 00:55:09.305 - 00:55:13.012 Emma mm mhm TC 00:55:12.579 - 00:55:14.632 Velvl um TC 00:55:13.271 - 00:55:14.328 Velvl and I heard from a friend that goes to Brandeis that they have really low enrollment in their Yiddish classes so they're thinking about getting rid of them um and so they're doing a campaign to drum up enrollment--that the students themselves not the actual department haha TC 00:55:14.857 - 00:55:29.347 Emma mhm TC 00:55:26.822 - 00:55:27.744 Velvl um TC 00:55:29.809 - 00:55:30.916 Velvl so TC 00:55:31.462 - 00:55:32.637 Velvl it does feel like even if there is interest it might TC 00:55:33.184 - 00:55:36.654 Velvl it's not that it might be too late cause it'll I don't think it's ev--really ever gonna go away but there might be kind of a gap between like TC 00:55:36.879 - 00:55:44.197 Emma mhm TC 00:55:40.879 - 00:55:41.564 Velvl what what people want and what the people with the resources and the ability to have people like learn this language want TC 00:55:46.447 - 00:55:55.165 Velvl um but in in also cute adorable ways I you know know people who are teaching their kids Yiddish as like their first language even if it wasn't their first language and I think that's also adorable so in the in the in the very similar way to just like language reclamation in general I think haha TC 00:55:55.324 - 00:56:10.471 Emma yeah TC 00:56:08.925 - 00:56:10.134 Velvl um you know TC 00:56:10.579 - 00:56:12.175 Velvl second language speakers teaching their kids I love that though TC 00:56:13.414 - 00:56:16.242 Emma mhm TC 00:56:15.827 - 00:56:16.934 Velvl it's always good TC 00:56:16.350 - 00:56:17.542 Emma so how do you feel when you think about the tsukunft fun yidish TC 00:56:17.312 - 00:56:21.625 Velvl how do I feel TC 00:56:28.685 - 00:56:30.063 Velvl that's a question haha TC 00:56:39.047 - 00:56:40.627 Velvl I have a hard time answering that question in any context haha TC 00:56:41.342 - 00:56:44.289 Velvl um TC 00:56:46.185 - 00:56:47.377 Emma if you don't have an answer that's fine TC 00:56:46.202 - 00:56:48.997 Velvl um TC 00:56:54.859 - 00:56:55.932 Velvl I guess hopeful TC 00:57:01.895 - 00:57:04.404 Velvl um I think that TC 00:57:06.080 - 00:57:09.365 Velvl like people like me will probably still exist um and I hope that there are more TC 00:57:14.569 - 00:57:20.536 Velvl I don't necessarily think that TC 00:57:20.998 - 00:57:23.523 Velvl it's just happen like organically I think you know like TC 00:57:25.706 - 00:57:29.550 Velvl I I want people to like TC 00:57:29.550 - 00:57:31.336 Velvl be more aware that like you know you--there's no wrong reason to learn Yiddish there's no like right reason to learn Yiddish TC 00:57:31.950 - 00:57:40.263 Emma mhm TC 00:57:39.071 - 00:57:39.858 Velvl um TC 00:57:40.354 - 00:57:41.461 Velvl I know TC 00:57:42.716 - 00:57:44.144 Velvl I also TC 00:57:46.125 - 00:57:47.334 Velvl yeah I'm I fee--I guess I feel hopeful um but like when I think about like the academic institutions that are getting rid of it as an option TC 00:57:47.390 - 00:57:56.210 Velvl and TC 00:57:56.452 - 00:57:57.560 Velvl just like the way that th economy is going and the way that it's gonna be harder and harder to just access things that TC 00:57:57.752 - 00:58:04.681 Velvl require money um TC 00:58:04.755 - 00:58:06.740 Velvl it's like definitely something that like that definitely makes me you know TC 00:58:06.898 - 00:58:12.123 Velvl i--it adds caution to the equation I think the interest will always be there but the means the means um I'm I'm like worried about that TC 00:58:13.142 - 00:58:21.050 Emma mhm TC 00:58:20.786 - 00:58:21.590 Emma and what is good Yiddish TC 00:58:23.250 - 00:58:26.821 Velvl ooh TC 00:58:26.304 - 00:58:27.378 Emma haha TC 00:58:27.384 - 00:58:28.340 Velvl I don't think that that exists TC 00:58:28.616 - 00:58:30.669 Emma mhm TC 00:58:30.169 - 00:58:31.158 Velvl um TC 00:58:30.995 - 00:58:32.064 Velvl so I'm not going to say what it looks like cause it doesn't exist TC 00:58:32.064 - 00:58:35.275 Emma mhm TC 00:58:35.214 - 00:58:35.917 Emma haha do you wanna talk a little more about that TC 00:58:36.598 - 00:58:38.853 Velvl um TC 00:58:38.741 - 00:58:40.068 Velvl well TC 00:58:40.395 - 00:58:41.536 Velvl I guess TC 00:58:45.626 - 00:58:46.970 Velvl Yiddish is now TC 00:58:56.342 - 00:58:58.951 Velvl so TC 00:58:59.599 - 00:59:01.179 Velvl I think it's just incredibly versatile right, um there's so many dialects TC 00:59:03.952 - 00:59:10.375 Velvl and TC 00:59:11.715 - 00:59:13.109 Velvl it's just that like simply like TC 00:59:14.921 - 00:59:17.311 Velvl I haven't seen one even like TC 00:59:24.337 - 00:59:26.829 Velvl in in the small groups that I run in not not one like emerges as like the prestige one or like the one that like everybody desires or anything like that so for me that's good because there's not any like you know TC 00:59:27.425 - 00:59:39.024 Emma mhm TC 00:59:34.969 - 00:59:36.515 Velvl um TC 00:59:39.024 - 00:59:40.244 Velvl cause I don't TC 00:59:40.639 - 00:59:41.662 Velvl think that TC 00:59:42.039 - 00:59:43.417 Velvl um any one dialect is ever better than another one TC 00:59:43.609 - 00:59:47.821 Velvl um TC 00:59:47.912 - 00:59:48.901 Velvl as well as TC 00:59:49.447 - 00:59:51.078 Velvl um there's also to me no stigma around like using more TC 00:59:52.552 - 00:59:56.799 Velvl you know Yinglish kind of stuff in order to try to get your point across TC 00:59:57.075 - 01:00:01.341 Velvl to me obviously as long as I can understand it TC 01:00:01.341 - 01:00:03.734 Velvl it's it's it's good Yiddish haha right um in the same way that as--I mean I would say that about English as long as I can understand it it's good English TC 01:00:04.162 - 01:00:12.951 Emma mhm mhm TC 01:00:05.529 - 01:00:07.092 Emma mhm TC 01:00:12.212 - 01:00:12.830 Velvl um TC 01:00:12.951 - 01:00:13.944 Velvl and I I I you know I can my ear can identify it as such um TC 01:00:14.895 - 01:00:20.643 Velvl I think that um TC 01:00:21.493 - 01:00:23.883 Velvl there definitely are people TC 01:00:26.420 - 01:00:28.113 Velvl that I know that would prefer TC 01:00:28.113 - 01:00:31.932 Velvl you know like YIVO Yiddish as like TC 01:00:32.107 - 01:00:35.965 Velvl possibly like the most like standardized and therefore good Yiddish? TC 01:00:37.659 - 01:00:42.592 Velvl um TC 01:00:42.592 - 01:00:44.049 Velvl but TC 01:00:44.477 - 01:00:45.601 Velvl I I don't I don't really think that that way and as far as I know TC 01:00:46.991 - 01:00:52.317 Emma that is next question is what are your thoughts about klal yidish TC 01:00:51.986 - 01:00:55.507 Velvl I mean TC 01:00:55.783 - 01:00:56.789 Velvl I think that it's great as far as like getting um TC 01:00:56.964 - 01:01:00.974 Velvl people to learn Yiddish TC 01:01:02.246 - 01:01:03.910 Emma mhm TC 01:01:03.731 - 01:01:04.282 Velvl um in in a way that is s--like way less confusing like the way that my ex-Hasidic friends spell things even sometimes really throws me for a loop right TC 01:01:04.170 - 01:01:12.483 Emma mhm TC 01:01:11.780 - 01:01:12.466 Velvl um TC 01:01:12.658 - 01:01:13.749 Velvl but TC 01:01:14.919 - 01:01:15.962 Velvl it's I think about I concieve of klal Yiddish in a similar way that I concieve of my friends who went to international school's English if that TC 01:01:19.155 - 01:01:28.970 Velvl I I will expand I guess haha um and it's that TC 01:01:29.128 - 01:01:33.475 Emma mhm mhm TC 01:01:29.989 - 01:01:31.484 Velvl I you know when I went to McGill I I met a lot of international students a lot of them went to international schools uh that spoke English in non-English speaking countries TC 01:01:35.203 - 01:01:43.786 Emma mhm TC 01:01:43.100 - 01:01:44.191 Velvl and the way that they speak English is just like TC 01:01:43.860 - 01:01:47.515 Velvl I can't place what your dialect is because TC 01:01:47.977 - 01:01:51.315 Velvl it's either such a mishmash or it's just something that like TC 01:01:51.315 - 01:01:55.109 Velvl to me TC 01:01:57.191 - 01:01:58.484 Velvl kind of popped out of nowhere TC 01:01:58.676 - 01:02:00.459 Velvl um and so TC 01:02:01.089 - 01:02:03.091 Velvl I think sometimes the way that I concieve of TC 01:02:03.367 - 01:02:07.276 Velvl klal Yiddish is is like that TC 01:02:08.801 - 01:02:11.275 Velvl um but in the same sense I've met more and more people who that's literally like the Yiddish that they grew up speaking um which is really cool TC 01:02:11.349 - 01:02:21.555 Emma mhm TC 01:02:18.656 - 01:02:19.443 Velvl um TC 01:02:21.555 - 01:02:22.548 Velvl and in that way like TC 01:02:23.347 - 01:02:25.133 Velvl it's not that it's not I'm never I've never thought of it as like quote unquote unnatural because it's the first Yiddish that I was ever exposed to and so it by default it's the one that I understand the best. I find it very understandable it's very easy to like distinguish different things I think it's great TC 01:02:25.133 - 01:02:39.625 Emma mhm TC 01:02:38.417 - 01:02:39.102 Velvl it's a great Yiddish to learn but I think also a lot of the people TC 01:02:40.054 - 01:02:44.489 Velvl um that I know that that speak or are learning it have to be chameleons TC 01:02:44.489 - 01:02:49.939 Velvl um TC 01:02:49.939 - 01:02:50.965 Velvl dialectica--like dialectical chameleons I guess haha um TC 01:02:51.900 - 01:02:56.214 Emma mhm mhm TC 01:02:53.689 - 01:02:55.167 Velvl because TC 01:02:56.473 - 01:02:57.969 Velvl the majority of the Yiddish speaking world doesn't speak it um TC 01:02:58.211 - 01:03:02.272 Velvl and um so--we've we've like hit barriers like with TC 01:03:02.936 - 01:03:08.988 Velvl speaking to like Hasidim who are like are like what the h--are you saying actually TC 01:03:08.994 - 01:03:13.291 Velvl um TC 01:03:13.449 - 01:03:14.439 Velvl but TC 01:03:15.727 - 01:03:16.717 Velvl it's the fact that it's so standardized and widespread and and easy to learn is is awesome for TC 01:03:17.634 - 01:03:24.060 Velvl you know TC 01:03:24.060 - 01:03:25.239 Velvl my agenda haha my personal I guess future Yiddish agenda of having more people speak Yiddish in just like a you know secular cultural context first and foremost TC 01:03:25.464 - 01:03:35.127 Emma haha TC 01:03:26.409 - 01:03:28.158 Emma mhm TC 01:03:35.539 - 01:03:36.292 Emma yeah TC 01:03:36.568 - 01:03:37.507 Emma and vi oft redstu mit khsidishe mentshn? TC 01:03:38.087 - 01:03:42.822 Velvl um TC 01:03:43.250 - 01:03:45.050 Velvl people who are still Hasidic not at all usually TC 01:03:46.153 - 01:03:49.201 Velvl people who TC 01:03:49.410 - 01:03:50.976 Velvl were Hasidic TC 01:03:50.976 - 01:03:52.542 Velvl multiple times a week TC 01:03:53.308 - 01:03:54.820 Velvl um TC 01:03:55.198 - 01:03:56.407 Velvl and TC 01:03:57.088 - 01:03:58.752 Velvl I would say forty percent of the interaction we have is in Yiddish TC 01:03:59.315 - 01:04:03.224 Velvl um TC 01:04:03.433 - 01:04:04.557 Velvl like just under half I guess TC 01:04:04.850 - 01:04:06.780 Velvl um I know people who came from I'm not sure if you know about this but TC 01:04:06.780 - 01:04:10.711 Velvl north of here in the town of Boisbriand there's a TC 01:04:10.711 - 01:04:14.497 Velvl town that's just Tosh Hasidim TC 01:04:14.908 - 01:04:18.057 Velvl um I know people left that town who live in Montreal now TC 01:04:18.317 - 01:04:22.614 Velvl um TC 01:04:22.721 - 01:04:23.812 Velvl I know quite a few people who TC 01:04:25.134 - 01:04:27.963 Velvl um TC 01:04:28.172 - 01:04:29.279 Velvl know someone who's currently Breslov but like TC 01:04:29.927 - 01:04:32.640 Velvl is trans so isn't connected to her community TC 01:04:32.640 - 01:04:36.519 Velvl um I know people who were who grew up in Belz TC 01:04:36.845 - 01:04:41.024 Velvl um who grew up in Vizhnitz TC 01:04:41.182 - 01:04:43.809 Velvl um and all of their Yiddishes are pretty indistinguishable to me, I because I'm not I'm--maybe they have dialectical differences I dunno I just put it all under Hasidic Yiddish um TC 01:04:44.085 - 01:04:54.541 Velvl but TC 01:04:54.851 - 01:04:55.840 Velvl I I do interact with them and I do change the way that I speak when I'm around them TC 01:04:56.269 - 01:05:00.915 Velvl and I think that that confuses my poor little brain when I'm trying to just like TC 01:05:00.915 - 01:05:05.425 Emma haha TC 01:05:02.985 - 01:05:03.924 Velvl I don't think that there's a default Yiddish that I speak anymore TC 01:05:06.124 - 01:05:09.614 Emma mhm mhm TC 01:05:09.077 - 01:05:10.353 Velvl like there is no default it's just like TC 01:05:09.614 - 01:05:12.040 Velvl who I'm with determines TC 01:05:12.739 - 01:05:14.963 Velvl what it is so when people ask me just speak Yiddish in a vacuum I have no idea what to do TC 01:05:14.963 - 01:05:20.444 Emma mhm TC 01:05:19.944 - 01:05:20.512 Velvl so I I guess TC 01:05:20.450 - 01:05:21.912 Velvl naturally I go TC 01:05:23.285 - 01:05:24.747 Velvl towards klal Yiddish but TC 01:05:25.479 - 01:05:27.279 Velvl um TC 01:05:27.386 - 01:05:28.274 Velvl cause it's the first one so I guess TC 01:05:29.175 - 01:05:30.991 Velvl I but I literally have to make the conscious decison which one am I doing right now TC 01:05:31.065 - 01:05:34.923 Emma yeah TC 01:05:34.355 - 01:05:35.294 Velvl um because because TC 01:05:35.030 - 01:05:36.982 Velvl of the amount of times that I TC 01:05:37.089 - 01:05:39.732 Velvl interact with TC 01:05:40.346 - 01:05:41.673 Velvl people who speak Hasidic Yiddish which is cool TC 01:05:41.713 - 01:05:44.204 Emma mhm mhm TC 01:05:43.198 - 01:05:44.643 Velvl love them TC 01:05:44.565 - 01:05:45.605 Emma yeah TC 01:05:46.185 - 01:05:47.022 Velvl um TC 01:05:46.522 - 01:05:47.394 Emma and TC 01:05:47.366 - 01:05:48.558 Emma yeah that's pretty much it for my questions um TC 01:05:48.834 - 01:05:52.962 Emma my specific research I think is gonna be about like TC 01:05:53.036 - 01:05:56.523 Emma yeah dialectal variation and other sort of TC 01:05:56.799 - 01:05:59.867 Velvl mhm TC 01:05:57.980 - 01:05:58.902 Emma sociophonetic variation. do you have anything else you'd like to say? TC 01:05:59.867 - 01:06:04.758 Velvl mhm TC 01:06:01.642 - 01:06:02.514 Velvl mm TC 01:06:06.300 - 01:06:06.834 Velvl um TC 01:06:12.020 - 01:06:13.162 Velvl not really I don't think so TC 01:06:17.454 - 01:06:19.169 Velvl um TC 01:06:19.631 - 01:06:20.480 Velvl I I'm interested in in seeing what TC 01:06:20.480 - 01:06:23.050 Velvl what you find TC 01:06:23.681 - 01:06:25.070 Emma haha me too TC 01:06:24.997 - 01:06:25.936 Velvl specially as somebody as who's uh you know who identifies kind of as like a dialect chameleon TC 01:06:25.070 - 01:06:29.699 Emma mhm mhm TC 01:06:29.284 - 01:06:30.897 Velvl um TC 01:06:29.722 - 01:06:30.695 Velvl cause I quite--I've seen that happen with quite a few other people as well TC 01:06:30.954 - 01:06:35.161 Emma yeah yeah TC 01:06:34.447 - 01:06:36.078 Velvl um TC 01:06:35.161 - 01:06:36.348 Velvl so yeah I guess I'm interested in seeing that rendered somehow in a way that I can consume haha TC 01:06:37.181 - 01:06:42.946 Emma mhm TC 01:06:41.012 - 01:06:42.052 Velvl um TC 01:06:43.509 - 01:06:44.549 Velvl yeah I'm really glad--I also just feel glad that you TC 01:06:44.589 - 01:06:47.654 Velvl want to TC 01:06:47.728 - 01:06:48.920 Velvl academically study Yiddish TC 01:06:49.415 - 01:06:52.126 Velvl I'm like people wanna do this this is really good it makes me really happy TC 01:06:52.149 - 01:06:56.935 Emma oh good TC 01:06:56.047 - 01:06:57.104 Emma well thank you TC 01:06:57.397 - 01:06:58.994 Velvl thank you TC 01:06:58.460 - 01:06:59.352 Emma alright TC 01:06:59.692 - 01:07:00.482