Learn Yiddish. Speak Yiddish.

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3.0
51 reviews
10K+
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PEGI 3
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About this app

Quickly learn to speak and understand Yiddish with interactive video lessons narrated in any of 146 languages.



The only interactive Yiddish program designed by a Harvard PhD.

"Affordable, responsive, easy to set up, and simple to access, Bluebird is loaded with user-friendly features and contains an enormous amount of content. This is an excellent resource for users seeking a handy, enhanced mobile experience for language learning." - Library Journal

Choose from 2,000 pre-recorded lessons (over 5 years of lessons) or create a truly personalized course that revolves around the things you love.

If you’re learning for your job, you can even create a personalized course for any of 60 occupations.

Bluebird uses the scientifically proven spaced repetition technique, so you’ll learn quickly and retain what you learn long-term. Just listen and repeat – it’s that easy.

Learn Yiddish hands-free. No typing or swiping needed. Learn while you’re exercising, cooking, commuting, or relaxing at home. You can even stream your Bluebird lessons to smart speakers like Google Home or to your TV.

You’ll Learn:

* 2,000 high frequency words. (84% of everyday speech includes these powerful words.)

* The top 100 verbs – with conjugations in the past, present, and future tenses.

* How to build complete sentences on your own.

* How to manage dozens of everyday situations.

* How to handle complex conversations.

Watch Your Progress:

* 2,000 quizzes will test your knowledge and reinforce what you learn.

* Each quiz contains a variety of question types to evaluate your listening, reading, and writing skills.

* See your statistics for both your lessons and quizzes at any time.

A Global Approach

Bluebird brings language learning to the world’s population in an unprecedented way. You can learn Yiddish from any of 146 narration languages.

Something for Everybody

Whether you’re preparing for a trip or want to learn Yiddish for fun, school, or work, Bluebird will teach you what you need to know, and ensure you remember what you learn long-term. And, with family-friendly content throughout, your whole family can enjoy learning Yiddish the Bluebird way.

Unparalleled Content and Quality

Bluebird has the most comprehensive language courses in the world, with an average of 10,000 instructional phrases per language. Each Bluebird lesson lasts between 15 and 45 minutes, with the average lesson lasting 30 minutes. Our curriculum is teacher-designed and human-translated; our narrators and actors are professional voice-over artists and native speakers of their respective languages; and our audio is studio-grade.
Updated on
Apr 9, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
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Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

3.1
46 reviews
David Benson
January 4, 2022
Many excellent features. Unfortunately it lacks one essential: there is no phonetic translation. This means, if you cannot read Yiddish text you have to rely entirely on the speaker. It is very easy to mis-hear: M and N can sound identical for instance. In longer phrases it is very hard to work out where one word ends and the next begins. You end up learning like a mynah bird with just sounds and no clear sense of what the words mean. I have now found sites which do provide phonetic Yiddish.
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Bluebird Languages
January 4, 2022
Hi David Benson, please note that phonetic text is available for each of the 10,000 instructional phrases in the Yiddish course. Please be sure to tap the "tA" label in the upper right of the audio lessons (and relevant quizzes), which toggles the phonetic text on/off.
Liza at BDV
September 22, 2020
Might or might not be useful for learning Yiddish, but the background image they chose -- visible the entire time you're listening to the lesson -- features a prominent Christian statue and cross. Such a bizarre and offensive choice, I deleted the app. If you change it, you might choose to enlarge the Hebrew translations, as well. Why make the text so tiny?
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Bluebird Languages
January 5, 2021
Hi Liza, following our email correspondence, I was able to locate the image that you referred to, and as I wrote by email, the statue is of a woman holding a sword (not a cross). UPDATE: The photograph is of the Warsaw Mermaid (Syrenka na Starowce) in the Old Town Market Place, Warsaw. Anybody who doubts can look it up on Wikipedia.
Roni Gal
December 2, 2020
This app has access to all your photos on the phone for no logical reason
6 people found this review helpful
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Bluebird Languages
March 16, 2021
Hi, with version 1.7.1 (February 11, 2021) access to storage for our audio lessons is no longer required. Should you have any other questions or concerns, we are available to help: android@bluebirdlanguages.com Kindly update your review to reflect the change to better inform other users, thank you in advance.

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.