Other Seminars

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How to Self-Study Ancient Languages

Gabriel Jower

It's not always possible to study ancient languages formally at school or university! In this video, PALAIA executive and Greek / Hittite tutor Gabriel Jower gives his advice on how to self-study ancient languages. Some of the topics discussed involve the corpus size of ancient languages, as well as the orthography / phonology, vocabulary, syntax, and available tools for study.

Who Knows One: Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino

Levi Bak

In this video, PALAIA executive and tutor Levi Bak runs a workshop on the same song in three different languages: Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino! The handout may be accessed at the following link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xTjCU0ZLSHx74fQZMfWB0qS2eAybaiov/view?usp=drive_link