Beginner IV Yiddish (Sunday)
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 mostly in Yiddish, with some English used when necessary.
Instructor: Nina Warnke
Who should take this course?
This course is for those who have previously taken three semesters of Yiddish. It is appropriate for those who completed Beginner III Yiddish in fall 2021.
What topics will this class cover?
Students in this course will continue to develop their listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills in Yiddish. Topics covered will include weather and seasons, vacations, clothes, the body, illnesses, Purim and Pesakh. In addition to reading a wide variety folk tales, songs, and poems, this course will study the past tense, modal verbs, reflexive verbs, dative expressions, and more. There will be an extensive review and deepening of grammar covered previously. The class will start with Chapter 17 of In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook.
Is knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet required?
Yes, knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet is required.
Course Materials:
This course will use the textbook In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook, Vol I & II by Asya Vaisman Schulman, Jordan Brown, Mikhl Yashinsky (Purchase). The instructor will provide any additional course materials digitally throughout the class on Canvas.
Nina Warnke currently teaches online Yiddish language courses for Gratz College. She was born and raised in Germany, where she started to learn Yiddish before studying in the Oxford Summer Program and receiving her Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University. During that time she directed the YIVO zumer program for a few years. Since then Nina taught Yiddish language, literature and culture courses at Indiana University, the University of Texas at Austin and Vanderbilt University. She has researched and written extensively about the Yiddish theater and is also working as a translator of Yiddish and German texts.
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