Re: [Cz-L] German language

More from my late mother Pearl Spiegel Fichman's memoirs, Before
Memories Fade:
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By the time I started school, at the age of six-and-a-half I was a 
veteran reader, but I knew two distinct alphabets - the Hebrew and the 
Gothic, not the Latin, which I had to learn in order to read and write 
Romanian.
Funny, when I think back, I don’t remember to have feared facing a 
completely alien environment, where people spoke a language that I had 
never really heard.
In school, all the children faced the same predicament, for they were 
Ukrainian children, many Jewish, some Polish but none Romanian. In 
fact, the first years in school seemed like a fairly easy time. 
Learning came easily to me. The teacher, for all four years in 
elementary school was the same loving, motherly Mrs. Weiner. She may 
have been impatient with some, but I sailed through
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Eytan
Eytan Fichman, AIA
B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M.
 
42 / 11 Tran Binh Trong,
Hai Phong, Viet Nam
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From: Paul Heger <pheger_at_gmail.com>
To: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Cc: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; CZERNOWITZ-L 
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sat, May 28, 2011 2:04 pm
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] German language
Re German language
I was born in Romania, only a few years after Czernowitz became
Romania. We know German, because we spoke German and Yiddish with our
parents, - (my mother never learned Romanian)- and with our friends. I
went to Safa Ivriah school, but among us pupils, we spoke Yiddish or
German, then in the L3 Gymnasium we also spoke these 2  languages, not
Romanian. I had practically 2 mother tongs. I studied German
orthography, grammar and literature at a private teacher, just as I
learned Chumash, Rashi and Talmud. Therefore, I forgot Romanian, but
can still speak and write quite a correct German.
I left for Palestine April 1940 and had no occasion nor great desire
to speak Romanian.
Paul Heger
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