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Babylonian (Talmudic) Aramaic

A Latinum Institute intralinear lesson: this is taught using an ancient Renaissance technique — every sentence carries a word-by-word English gloss interleaved into the text, so you read and understand from the very first lesson, with no dictionary required. This is comprehensible input as a system. Each lesson section is repeated three times — first in construed technical form, then sentence by sentence, and finally in the target language only. Each section includes grammar notes. This enables you to assess your progress and test yourself for understanding immediately. Each lesson is built around one core word, and includes a full translation in technical gloss, then a natural translation, grammar notes, cultural context, and a passage of real literature, followed by a third section based on a genre style — a letter, a story, a dialogue — so that script, vocabulary, and grammar are acquired together through repeated, structured contact rather than drills or tests.

57 lessons

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7he/she/it. Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Lesson 11 Lesson 12there is, Lesson 13בְּ Lesson 14דֵּין Lesson 15to know Lesson 16אֲנָא Lesson 17for Lesson 18לא Lesson 19having Lesson 20דִּילִי / דִּי Lesson 21לָא functions as Lesson 22just, Lesson 23not Lesson 24עבד Lesson 25הוה functions as Lesson 26עַל Lesson 27your Lesson 28הֲוָה Lesson 29אֲנַחְנָא Lesson 30אִית functions as Lesson 31עִם Lesson 32so, Lesson 33אֲבָל Lesson 34כֹּל Lesson 35טָב Lesson 36there is Lesson 37הוּא Lesson 38אוֹ Lesson 39עַל functions as Lesson 40right, Lesson 41אַתְּ/אַנְתְּ represents the Lesson 42to get, Lesson 43here Lesson 44to go out, Lesson 45אָזֵיל Lesson 46כְּ Lesson 47yes Lesson 48The topic word Lesson 49her Lesson 50she Lesson 51In Babylonian Aramaic, Lesson 52לְעֵילָא Lesson 53 Lesson 54The Babylonian Aramaic Lesson 55there Lesson 56to see Lesson 57In Babylonian Aramaic, "her