Meet Cookie Kibbitznik – your favorite Jewish mother! She's a technically-challenged Boomer fashionista – a tell-it-like-it-is kind of unfiltered gal ... a power-walking, pool-jogging, brisket-making, mah jongg maven ... your new favorite Funny Girl and giver of sage advice! She's here to teach you Yiddish, as you fall out of your chair, laughing!
These
videos are not meant to compete with serious Yiddish language tutorials such as the new Duolingo course or Rukhl Schaechter's Word of the Day lessons from the Forward. They focus on Yiddish words that you probably already know, but illustrate their use in hilarious ways. They are produced and
acted out by a woman who reveals only her first name, Perri. In today's
video and other that we will be sharing in the coming weeks, she
assumes the identity of Cookie Kibitznik, a yenta if we ever saw won.
In this episode, Cookie teaches you how to build on the word "oy." Learn the phrases: Oy vey, Oy vey iz mir, Oy gottenyu, and Oy gevalt.
Enjoy!
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