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Language course after a do-it-yourself setback (7)

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I believe the answer is:

yiddish

'language' is the definition.
(Yiddish is an example)

'course after a do-it-yourself setback' is the wordplay.
'course' becomes 'dish' (dish can mean a course of a meal).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'a do-it-yourself' becomes 'diy' (abbreviation for do-it-yourself).
'setback' says the letters should be written backwards.
'diy' written backwards gives 'yid'.
'dish' put after 'yid' is 'YIDDISH'.

(Other definitions for yiddish that I've seen before include "German/Hebrew mixture" , "I did shy away from this language of European Jews" , "Language spoken by Jews" , "European Jews' vernacular" , "Mixed language used by Jews of central and eastern Europe" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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