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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods - Community Reviews back

by Michael Wex
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FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt
FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt rated it 10 years ago
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...
Boston Bibliophile
Boston Bibliophile rated it 12 years ago
Rambling and confusing at times but overall a fun read.
Osho
Osho rated it 15 years ago
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...
paigeawesome
paigeawesome rated it 17 years ago
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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