Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780061131226 (0061131229)
Publish date: February 28th 2006
Publisher: HarperAudio
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
History,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
Jewish,
Religion,
Sociology,
Social Science,
Judaism,
Judaica
A very informative and humorous read.Instead of focusing on vocabulary, this book gives a lot of conversational phrases to use in different situations. This made reading it much more interesting. Wex also includes many personal stories, which helps to make the text easier to read and comprehend. The...
Rambling and confusing at times but overall a fun read.
I read this by alternating between the book and the audiobook so that In could see orthography and hear pronunciation. Ideally I'd have done these simultaneously, but in fact I alternated media.I enjoyed about the first 6 chapters, which included topics such as the titular kvetching. Though they inc...
I didn't really "like" this book so much, but I am glad for the new information it gave me, and I'd probably actually give it 3.5 stars, but I really didn't enjoy reading it all that much, so three stars it gets.As someone with hardly any knowledge of Yiddish, parts of it were pretty boring and usel...
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