Yes, luckily we are!
Syntax, really? I don't like syntax at all xD No idea about Yiddish. Also not really informed about information structure.
Regarding the branches of linguistics I prefer semantics. I like lexikology and lexikography.
I am very interested in learning more about forensic linguistics.
Apparantly I am good at corpus linguistics (but isn't that much fun for me personally actually

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Going to have a class about graphematics. Reeeaally looking forward to that.
Loanwords are super interesting to me as well.
In general I'd say I am definitely into diachronic and applied linguistics.