Beginner I Intensive (Polish Yiddish) with Leyzer Burko: Monday and Thursday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM: June 30, July 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 31
Monday and Thursday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM: June 30, July 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 31
Course Goals: Build your basic reading, speaking, and writing skills and learn fundamentals of grammar through the communicative approach. You’ll learn how to greet others and introduce yourself, discuss your typical day and week, count objects, and describe your surroundings.
This course introduces students to classic literary Yiddish with a focus on Polish Yiddish pronunciation and some attention to dialect differences. This approach helps students understand how most speakers sound today, while also gaining access to the language of great writers of the past, such as I.L. Peretz and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Course Tools: In Eynem by Asya Vaisman Schulman, Jordan Brown, and Mikhl Yashinsky, available for purchase here, along with supplementary materials provided by the instructor.
Additional Info: Students should learn the alef-beys in advance. They can practice reading using the comic section at the beginning of In Eynem. The first two class sessions will include review of the alphabet and pronunciation rules.
Monday and Thursday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM: June 30, July 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 31
Course Goals: Build your basic reading, speaking, and writing skills and learn fundamentals of grammar through the communicative approach. You’ll learn how to greet others and introduce yourself, discuss your typical day and week, count objects, and describe your surroundings.
This course introduces students to classic literary Yiddish with a focus on Polish Yiddish pronunciation and some attention to dialect differences. This approach helps students understand how most speakers sound today, while also gaining access to the language of great writers of the past, such as I.L. Peretz and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Course Tools: In Eynem by Asya Vaisman Schulman, Jordan Brown, and Mikhl Yashinsky, available for purchase here, along with supplementary materials provided by the instructor.
Additional Info: Students should learn the alef-beys in advance. They can practice reading using the comic section at the beginning of In Eynem. The first two class sessions will include review of the alphabet and pronunciation rules.
Monday and Thursday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM: June 30, July 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 31
Course Goals: Build your basic reading, speaking, and writing skills and learn fundamentals of grammar through the communicative approach. You’ll learn how to greet others and introduce yourself, discuss your typical day and week, count objects, and describe your surroundings.
This course introduces students to classic literary Yiddish with a focus on Polish Yiddish pronunciation and some attention to dialect differences. This approach helps students understand how most speakers sound today, while also gaining access to the language of great writers of the past, such as I.L. Peretz and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Course Tools: In Eynem by Asya Vaisman Schulman, Jordan Brown, and Mikhl Yashinsky, available for purchase here, along with supplementary materials provided by the instructor.
Additional Info: Students should learn the alef-beys in advance. They can practice reading using the comic section at the beginning of In Eynem. The first two class sessions will include review of the alphabet and pronunciation rules.
