Winter Intensive Beginner III Yiddish

Class starts Jan 3 6:00pm-7:30pm

Tuition: $325
YIVO members: $250**
Students: $150 (Must register with valid university email address)

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Instructor: Nina Warnke

Who should take this course?
This course is for students who have previously taken two or three semesters of Yiddish.

YIVO is renaming several of our Yiddish levels. Winter Intensive Beginner III is appropriate for students who took Advanced Beginner or Intermediate Yiddish in Fall 2020. It also is appropriate for students who were in the Alef level in the 2020 Summer Program.

What topics will this class cover?
This class will focus on reading, writing, listening, and speaking. It covers selected grammar and readings from the final chapters of Sheva Zucker’s Yiddish Volume I. Topics include family, clothing, and food.

Grammar will focus on various past tense forms, habitual past with flegn, consecutive word order, accusative and dative cases, including personal pronouns, adjectives.

Is knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet required?
Yes, knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet is required.

Course Materials:
This course will use the textbook Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Volume I by Sheva Zucker. If you do not yet own a copy (any edition is fine), purchase the textbook here.

Questions? Read our 2021 Winter Yiddish Classes FAQ.

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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