First-year Intensive Yiddish Language
First-year intensive Yiddish covering speaking, listening, reading, and writing; introduces foundational communication skills and Yiddish culture's breadth and multiplicity in past and present.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Communicate in Yiddish at the multi-sentence level in writing and orally in the past, present, future, imperative, and conditional tenses.
Understand a vocabulary of 400+ Yiddish words and decipher and interpret Yiddish texts about a range of topics related to daily life (both historically and in the present).
Implement learning strategies when engaging with Yiddish-language sources to discern and create meaning and to recognize grammar patterns and semantic nuances.
Demonstrate familiarity with various forms of Yiddish cultural expression.
Negotiate meaning across language and culture and draw comparisons between Yiddish-speaking cultures and those of their own.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Course mapNone. Not open to students with credit forJEWISH/GNS 106.
- credit forJEWISH/GNS 106
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- Not eligible with
- credit forJEWISH/GNS 106
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Intensive introduction to the Yiddish language through speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Introduces foundational communication skills and the breadth and multiplicity of Yiddish culture in the past and present. Encompasses the material usually covered inJEWISH/GNS 105and106.
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Topics
- Yiddish language fundamentals: speaking, listening, reading, writing
- Yiddish culture in past and present
- Interpreting Yiddish texts on daily life topics
- Cross-cultural comparison and meaning negotiation
Skills
- Speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Yiddish
- Multi-sentence communication in various Yiddish tenses
- Vocabulary acquisition and text interpretation
- Recognizing grammar patterns and semantic nuances
- Familiarity with Yiddish cultural expression
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