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- Lots of English words come from French and Latin and Dutch but what about German? We'll look at the history and look at some German and Yiddish words that we use in English.

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00:00 Schadenfreude
00:34 The Stats
02:39 Where do English words come from?
06:04 What about Germany?
08:22 German words in English
12:12 Yiddish words in English