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There were some non-Jews who knew Yiddish better than me.
They learned it.
There was Valik—
he knew Yiddish as well as you and I are speaking it.
Even better!
He was older than me. He was one of our friends.
There was Zuzhia.
There was Ivanov [who] spoke [Yiddish]
just as we're speaking it now.
In Berkhivka there was a non-Jew
who spoke Yiddish better than a Jew.
Many already passed away.
There was such non-Jews… I don't want to call them "goyim."
who can speak Yiddish more beautifully than a Jew.
They lived among the Jews.
They lived and they learned.
There was a Jewish school in Bershad.
Non-Jews went to the Jewish school.
That's how they learned it.