Daisy Braverman - Ladino

Daisy Braverman, a native Ladino speaker whose chilhood was spent between Izmir and Istanbul, two of the last Ladino-speaking communities anywhere, tells the story of her life at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Moving to the United States for higher education -- she holds a PhD and has research interests in linguistics, Turkish, and Ladino -- she became involved with the Sephardic community in New York and spurred a Ladino-language theater revival. She also shares memories of the Sephardic cooking and culture she knew growing up.
In Ladino with subtitles in Ladino and English by Kaela Alince Fong.
Ladino subtitles follow the Aki Yerushalayim system and are a work in progress -- please post or email [e-mail] with any corrections.
Part of the Ladino New York series (elalliance.org/languages/jewi.... Produced by Nicole Galpern.

[@raquelmaroto3636]

Maravillosa mujer,que mantiene viva la lengua y gastronomia de nuestros antepasados,bendiciones.

[@alexstewart8097]

That's amazing...after 500 years they kept the Ladino language ALive; and she speaks it (her Judeo Spanish) beautifully and better than most of the so called ''Hispanic'' youngsters born in Miami. Wonderful!.

[@mteisen9]

Bravo!! Continúen usando el Ladino. Es nuestra herencia

[@igormerbach]

Podria quedarme horas ouiendo la senhora. Que história increible!

[@ProudPassport]

I’m a Turkish American living in NYC as well. What an incredible woman 💓 I was able to follow most of her Ladino using my Spanish.

[@alexanderrodriguez7729]

Yo también. En Queens.

[@VoltaireMM]

O Ladino é uma mistura de Espanhol e Português

[@Medved383]

@@VoltaireMM e muitas palavras são do francês

[@sidneycoad6261]

They need to keep ladino language. It's a beautiful language

[@crislaniosilva5733]

Ladino es un lenguaje muy hermoso. Y eso representa la cultura y el alma del pueblo judío sefardi.💟🇧🇷🇮🇱💟🇮🇱🇧🇷💟🇮🇱

[@sandrocomvoce]

Muito compreensível para os ouvidos de um falante do português brasileiro pelo sotaque totalmente igual ao nosso, apesar de ser uma língua derivada do castelhano medieval. Muito diferente do sotaque espanhol sibilante e do português lisboeta. É um espanhol com sotaque brasileiro...

[@jossiani84]

An amazing woman...

[@josee18]

Yo soy de abuelos andaluces de Espana. Te digo, yo entendi como 99% lo que ella habla. Es muy interesante. En mis genes dicen que tenemos una mezcla de Moro y de Sefardi, Yo creo esto tambien, y vamos, por la mayoria de que ella contaba es muy comfortable para nosotros. Su gramatica de espanol esta muy bien. Un saludo desde California.

[@alexstewart8097]

De acuerdo a varios estudios de DNA mucho mas Judia que arabe, aunque la propaganda politica correcta diga lo contrario.

[@emilioserranorosa]

Así es hubo muy poca mezcla con los procedentes del Magred a pesar de estar aquí más de 800 años

[@angelagonimavalero7700]

Correcto, la sangre Sefardí está completamente integrada en los españoles y sean de la península o de Hispanoamérica, todos posiblemente tenemos algo de sefardí.

[@vatolocosforever803]

HABLA COMO LA GENTE ANTIGUA DE NEUVO LEON MEXICO

[@robertoarroyotrejo3940]

Habla español.

[@vatolocosforever803]

@@robertoarroyotrejo3940 si

[@midishh]

habían muchos judios en nuevo León

[@7777Noris]

No solo de Nuevo León, la familia de mi padre vivían/ viven en Zacatecas.

[@ksenos69]

I just guessing (also as a response to Safakis NYC), Sephardic Jews must have been more fortunate in Turkey, because of the county's neutrality during the second world. One of the biggest communities lived in my hometown Thessaloniki, Greece until the German nazis send the majority of them (around 45.000 people) to the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

[@aoliveira_]

entendo tudo.

[@stephanobarbosa5805]

grandpapa = abuelo.... (grandpère en frances)

[@stephanobarbosa5805]

entendi quase tudo que ela disse !

[@avikohen4297]

Ama..I miss my Istanbul

[@segundoeclipse5470]

¿Cómo se escribe el ladino? Es muy bonito, hay que conservarlo.

[@sergiobayona]

la escritura del Ladino se llama "Solitreo" y es un tipo de alfabeto Hebreo. Las letra no se parecen en nada al alfabeto Latino o Romano.

[@igormerbach]

I'm Brazilian and understood 100% of what she said. Ladino and Portuguese have the same intonation and accent. When I speak Spanish I speak like that!

[@emilioserranorosa]

Hace 500 años había poca diferencia español y portugués

[@joaox1878]

No creo que ela está hablando un idioma de hace 500 años. Parece que mi tía me habla hoy en 2024.

[@marcoshenriquesaat3121]

Ladino está mais próximo do português que o espanhol atual.

[@francescogutierrez3221]

Puede ser, en realidad preservó varias características del castellano medieval/antiguo que ya no existen en el español moderno

[@migueldehombre4443]

Pues se entiende muy bien..

[@Goreuncle]

Claro que se entiende, es Castellano.

[@kjgomes]

Is this spelling of Ladino standard, if there is even a standard, or is it usually only written with Hebrew letters? I feel that all those y's instead of i's and k's instead of q's, as well as the lack of silent h's somehow are unnecessarily making it look more different from Spanish than it really is. In general, as someone who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, this is very easy to understand. It's closer to Castellano than most other languages spoken in Spain.

[@kjgomes]

@@michaelpardo8403 Thanks for the info!

[@brankaarrive6383]

@@michaelpardo8403 The transcription doesn't follow (phonetically) what DB says either. She either says Shabád or Shabá but never Shavát, like in the subtitles; pishin, not peshin, dizimos, not dezimos; prezentasyón, not presentasyón, pyesa not pieza etc. etc.