Gedalya: I'm so donershtig!
Zusha: Huh, you're Donershtig? Maybe you are also Fraitig?
Gedalya: I'm donershtig! Help me open the water bottle.
Zusha: Don't you mean you are dorshtig?
Gedalya: No, I'm donershtig!
And it went back and forth like this for a few minutes. Gedalya kept insisting he is "Thursday." Zusha kept insisting that Gedalya really means "thirsty."
Zusha: Mama, Gedalya thinks he is Dinstig and Donershtig and Shabbos and Montig!!
Gedalya: No, only donershtig!
Zusha: Mama, right it's dorshtig?
Me: Yes, when you want to drink, you are dorshtig.
And then Zusha opened the bottle of water for Gedalya.
(Cute how the Yiddish "Donershtig" and "dorshtig" sound alike, just like the English "Thursday" and "thirsty" do.)
ahh, so THAT'S the day. I figured out most of them, but not Donershtig.
ReplyDeleteand now...i think Chedva has been saying dorshtig! i was thinking she was saying "ger-shty" instead of thirsty, because she says "palloony" instead of balloon.
the photo is exquisite!
The next chance you have, use dorshtig instead of thirsty to Chedva and see if she understands- then you'll know for sure.
ReplyDeleteLike my hover captions? Aren't they the coolest?
Shterna Sara had a smattering of Yiddish from me, and then full Yiddish at exactly 3 years of age till now. So she speaks it well, and understands it well.
ReplyDeleteChedva though, it's like she's had it from the womb! I mean, I did know more Yiddish from when SS started school. And, Chedva was in a fully Yiddish environment the whole year now...the kid is hilarious. just today she started spouting off a bunch of Yiddish to me. So I tested her with one of the few sentences I'm really grammatically sure of. She answered the right thing!
So awesome. Next time I'll speak to them in Yiddish.
ReplyDeleteThe boys won't, though. For some reason, if they know someone speaks English, they choose that.
i'd love if you'd speak Yiddish. SS will prolly get all shy and not let on anything. she does great with her teachers, and me, but anytime someone ELSE speaks Yiddish to her, she plays it cool. (argh!)
ReplyDeletei really love the dialogue you posted here though. so cute!