Speaking and Listening - To be prepared for the examination, candidates must possess basic conversational skills, displaying comprehension of high-frequency commands, courtesy formulae and simple statements and questions, demonstrating an ability to formulate basic responses to them, in addition to answering questions in Yiddish based on elementary-level listening comprehension passages. Reading and Writing - candidates must be able to comprehend simple reading passages, extracting meaning from a string of connected sentences when context or background knowledge are supportive; read vocalized and unvocalized texts; understand the Yiddish consonant and vowel systems; analyze Yiddish words as to their roots, prefixes and suffixes; identify parts of speech; demonstrate knowledge of the basic rules of Yiddish pronunciation; recognize basic grammatical structures when vocabulary is known or supplied and identify basic words for foods, articles and places. Candidates must be able to write all of the Yiddish (Hebrew) letters; supply in writing a few phrases, fixed expressions, names, numbers, dates, own nationality and other simple autobiographical information and translate English sentences into Yiddish, translate an elementary level Yiddish text into English, translate an elementary level English text into Yiddish, answer short questions in Yiddish with appropriate Yiddish responses.