Intermediate IV Yiddish
Tuition: $480 | YIVO members: $385**
Students: $240 (Must register with valid university email address)
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This is a live, online course held weekly on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 15 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, assignments, etc.) will be posted to Canvas. Students will be granted access to the class on Canvas after registering for the class here on the YIVO website. This class will be conducted in Yiddish.
Instructor: Sharon Bar-Kochva
Who should take this course?
This course is for those who took Intermediate III Yiddish in fall 2021.
What topics will this class cover?
The course will cover various grammar topics for the intermediate level such as possessive adjectives and pronouns, relative sentences, and complex syntax. The participants will develop their reading and listening skills as well as their oral and written expression with literary and non-literary texts, audio-recordings, and language games.
Course Materials:
The instructor will provide all course materials digitally throughout the class on Canvas. Purchasing the following textbook is optional but encouraged:
- College Yiddish: An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture by Uriel Weinreich. (Email info@yivo.org to purchase a copy.)
Sharon Bar-Kochva works as a Yiddish teacher and a librarian in the Paris Yiddish Center, where she is also head of the pedagogical team. She has been teaching Yiddish in various levels worldwide since 2004, both in academic and non-academic frameworks. She received her PhD from Inalco University in Paris on the topic of Pseudonymes of Yiddish and Hebrew writers.
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