Intermediate-Advanced Yiddish Conversation with Osian Sharma

Intermediate-Advanced Yiddish Conversation with Osian

For students looking to practise their speaking skills or to enjoy conversation with other Yiddish-learners, this class will involve a series of fun exercises and games to put vocabulary and grammar to use. Each class will introduce a topic through a Yiddish song or short text, followed by open discussion, some imaginative games and hopefully no curses!

Ideal for students who would like to build confidence speaking and who have studied Yiddish to an intermediate level or above. 

All learning materials will be provided by the teacher.

When: Sundays from 26 April - 7 June, 10:00 PST, 13:00 EST; 18:00 GMT; 19:00 CET

Cost: 7 classes for $196 (early bird, if paid before April 19), $245 (regular price)

Bio: Osian (Oshn) Evans Sharma

Osian (Oshn) Evans Sharma is a Yiddish teacher from the UK. He has studied Yiddish at University College London, and courses in Tel Aviv, Berlin and Paris. He has led Yiddish poetry courses online for Babel’s Blessing Language School and in-person workshops at the Shtetl Berlin Festival, the Maison de la Culture Yiddish and the Yiddish Sof-Vokh UK, which he also helps to organise. He teaches at the summer programme ‘Ot Azoy’ and recently completed a pedagogy fellowship at the Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA).