
Yiddish on Duolingo: How the long-awaited course came to be

Thu, Apr 22, 2021
12 A.M. ET
Zoom
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This event was recorded and is available to readers of the Forward.
Watch the recording here.
Earlier this month, Duolingo added Yiddish to its list of languages, and thousands have already signed up. Meet the team of Yiddish mavens who worked for five years bringing the mameloshn to the popular language learning app.
Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter will speak to Myra Awodey, Duolingo’s Lead Community Specialist; Meena Viswanath, civil engineer and creator of the Forverts crossword puzzles, and Levi Polasak and Libby Pollak, former Hasidim who helped contribute to the project, on how they created the course and what they’ve learned so far since launching the Yiddish version.
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