Time transcripts of Chad Chessin compressed

[00:00:00:00]	Interviewer: Please state your name.

[00:00:03:05]	Chad Chessin: Chad Chessin.

[00:00:04:22]	Interviewer: Is there anything else you'd like to say about yourself?

[00:00:06:29]	Chad Chessin: No sir [ laughing ].

[00:00:08:15]	Interviewer: And what is the subject of your narrative today?

[00:00:11:17]	Chad Chessin: I'm gonna be talking about  my time at a Jewish day school 

[00:00:15:02]	and how I felt literate in Hebrew.

[00:00:17:20]	Interviewer: Please begin with your narrative.

[00:00:19:24]	Chad Chessin: Alright so I'm from Cincinnati Ohio.

[00:00:22:01]	I went to a Jewish day school  called Yavneh day school.

[00:00:25:14]	And everyday we would have both English sections

[00:00:29:24]	and Hebrew sections split equally.

[00:00:32:18]	And in retrospect,  I would say that I didn't leave 

[00:00:37:10]	with as much Hebrew knowledge  as I would have liked to

[00:00:40:14]	because I didn't really maintain my studies.

[00:00:42:24]	But I definitely feel as if  I was literate at some point,

[00:00:47:04]	almost fluent at a point actually

[00:00:49:25]	toward the latter end of my day school education.

[00:00:53:09]	So, the first time  I felt literate in another language

[00:00:57:08]	was probably I'd say  about third grade with Hebrew

[00:00:59:22]	because I had a really good teacher  named Mrs. Clerman.

[00:01:03:25]	And she had this technique of immersion where she wouldn't let us speak in her class 

[00:01:12:14]	unless it was Hebrew [ laughing ].

[00:01:13:26]	And if we spoke in English,

[00:01:16:16]	she would just make us say it again  until we get it right

[00:01:19:09]	even if it wasn't good grammar, but until she could comprehend it.

[00:01:22:12]	And I think that that technique really made me 

[00:01:24:19]	not only in class know Hebrew

[00:01:28:07]	but I would go home  and I would study on my own

[00:01:31:24]	because if I don't know how to say this

[00:01:34:13]	I'm not going to be able to talk in the class.

[00:01:36:09]	I'm a pretty talkative person

[00:01:37:22]	so that would have not been good for me [ laughing ].

[00:01:40:22]	So, I'd say literacy would have happened  after that class

[00:01:46:10]	because it gave me the ability 

[00:01:52:04]	not only to comprehend Hebrew,

[00:01:53:10]	but it also let me speak it 

[00:01:55:08]	and be able to read it.

[00:01:56:20]	And then from that point on  until I'd say after 7th grade

[00:02:00:03]	when I went to a public school

[00:02:01:02]	I was fairly adequate in Hebrew.

[00:02:03:12]	And when I went to Israel 

[00:02:04:14]	I was able to maintain conversations.

[00:02:06:08]	And now I don't really know  as much Hebrew as I'd like to,

[00:02:11:21]	but the Hebrew that I do comprehend  is thanks to her

[00:02:15:11]	and that day school education. ...

[00:02:22:02]	Interviewer: Is there anything else you'd like to add?

[00:02:23:26]	Chad Chessin: Not really, go learn Hebrew.

[00:02:27:05]	It's a good language a good character system. [ laughing ]

[00:02:29:80]	Interviewer: Alright. Thank you.