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Kurdish

Bilingual books

http://www.tapbookauthor.com/bokbussenapp/Default.html : by GAN Aschehoug Publishing House : Online accessible children books, (With Audio, also of the Tigrinya version) in levels 1 .. 4 : where all the context is translated into several languages: The main language is Norwegian: Translations into : Tigrinya, English, Norwegian, Dari (Persian), Kurdish (Kurmanji), Pashto, an Arabic: [bokmål nynorsk engelsk dari kurdisk pashto arabisk tigrinja] see also : https://gan.aschehoug.no

https://www.morsmal.no/ti/ - Another Norwegien blog with some entries in several languages: Tigrinya included https://www.morsmal.no/no/ https://www.morsmal.no/ti/tigrinja-naturfag/8547-smak-barnetrinnet-tigrinja [ Arabisk العربية Dari دری Kurdisk Sorani کوردی Litauisk Lietuvių Pashto پښتو Persisk فارسی Polsk Polski Russisk Русский Somali Soomaali Spansk Español Tamil தமிழ் Thaiไ ทย Tigrinja ትግርኛ Tyrkisk Türkçe Urdu اردو]

Kurmanji

Books:

https://www.kurdishcourses.com/course-category/kurdish-language-courses/ : https://www.facebook.com/kurdishcourses/ : BY HEWA S. KHALID. / at koyauniversity.org ( Iraqi Kurdistan Region ) - Offering some online Kurmanji courses (maybe Sorani in the future)

"Kurdish Reader. Modern Literature and Oral Texts in Kurmanji: With Kurdish-English Glossaries and Grammatical Sketch" seems like a good reader for when you get to a decent level, with lots of vocabulary and grammatical explanations.

"Kurdish Phrasebook and Culture" well - It's a phrasebook.

http://learnkurmanji.com A great website to get you started in Kurmanji and for easily navigateable basic lessons about the language. They're constantly updating and have got a lot more lessons now than when I first got interested in Kurmanji, so this will probably by extensive in a few months/years :)

https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/Kurmanji/ : Here's one of many links to "Kurmanji Kurdish: A Reference Grammar" by W.M. Thackston, one of the best scholars of Kurdish in the west, who has also written the Sorani grammar and reader that I referenced above. It is dense, but it seems VERY good for when you're at a higher-intermediate level :)

http://cls.arizona.edu/kur1/contents.htm The Critical Language Series of Arizona University also has a course, it seems good, yet not something I'd use over the above, as it is mainly/only audio, I believe.

"Learn Kurdish: A Multi-Level Course in Kurmanji" http://rojavaplan.com/uploads/kurdish/Learn_Kurdish.pdf Seems like a good basic textbook to learn most things you'd need and more. It has a bit of an outdated structure, but it has a mass of information.

Last but not least, here's just a basic introduction, but worth posting nevertheless; http://rojavaplan.com/uploads/kurdish/kurmanji-basic.pdf

https://internationalistcommune.com/learn-kurmanci/

Youtube channels :

Podcasts:

http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/kurdish

Sorani

http://www.kurdishcentral.org/en/ Grammar - (downloadable PDFs) http://www.kurdishcentral.org/en/grammar-resources-sp [ Kim, Danielle H., A Basic Guide to Kurdish Grammar: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book. كتێبی ڕێزمانی كوردی. p 89. 2010 Particularly designed for language learners. Thackston, W. M. Sorani Kurdishː A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings. 90p. A scholarly linguistic work. ]

Any

https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~iranian/ Grammar - Kurmanji / Sorani

[ Introduction to Old Persian by P. Oktor Skjærvø Introduction to Manichaean Sogdian by P. Oktor Skjærvø Sorani Kurdish: A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings by W. M. Thackston Kurmanji Kurdish: A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings by W. M. Thackston

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Apparently, by Jenny Rahbek, Uppsala University:

A complete course for the beginners of Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji). A dialect which most of Kurdish people speaking around the world.

The above textbook is posted in some different online URLS, signed Harvard and Uppsala university

In case the URL changes - the first dialog contains the phrase:

"Ez jî kurd im. Ha, mamoste tê." / "I am a Kurd too. Oh, the teacher is coming. " Parts of it are available as a blog: https://kurmanci101.blogspot.com/

And in the Uppsala university website as Doc files, for the course: "APPLIED KURDISH: STUDIES IN A KURDISH SPEAKING COUNTRY, 30.0 C"

https://studentportalen.uu.se/portal/portal/uusp/student/student-courses?uusp.portalpage=true&courseCode=5KD350&uusp-locale=en


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Video: kurmanji lessons: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcUSd54K8Xjwfw6mgoP1rdw/videos https://www.instagram.com/mamostekurdish/

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https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/44477084 - My Ultimate Guide To Learn Kurdish for English Speakers - a resource index in a DuoLingo discussion, listing several Podcasts and textbooks