Languages and Linguistics

And I don't speak Yiddish anyway, but I know that quite a few people in Eastern Europe and North America (presumably Jewish) still know it, and use it as a lingua franca among each other. I have seen a film where the whole dialogue was in Yiddish. It was about Jewish immigrants in New York, and it had German subtitles, so I could follow what was being said. There was a lot that was similar to German, but without the subtitles, I would not have been able to follow the whole thing.