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Best way to learn Syriac for cheap or free?
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Doof,

I highly recommend jesusspokearamaic.com. As far as quality of the lessons go, I don't think there is anything out there yet to rival it. Ewan throws in a lot of mnemonics, comparisons, recaps, etc. which makes the material stick into your mind. It's what I've been looking for all these years. He uploads an average of 10-12 new lessons per months.

What I found out, at least for me, was that most grammars even if titled as Introduction were difficult to get me up to speed. They all kind of assumed you already had some semitic language knowledge background (Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). Without that semitic background it's pretty hard. jesusspokearamaic.com truly takes you from zero up, no previous semitic language mastery needed.

If the subscription cost would get in the way, please contact them, they promise to accommodate if you really want to learn. See this: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://jesusspokearamaic.com/about/FAQs">http://jesusspokearamaic.com/about/FAQs</a><!-- m --> Question: Despite your very generous Refund Policy, I am poor and will struggle to pay the minimum subscription cost. Is there any way to pay something closer to what I can afford?

Also for benefit of others reading this, if you tell them you come from <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.peshitta.org/forum/">http://www.peshitta.org/forum/</a><!-- m --> you get half the price. See <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.peshitta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3750">viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3750</a><!-- l -->

As for free, public domain grammars see this site: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.peshitta.org/beth-sapra/library.html">http://www.peshitta.org/beth-sapra/library.html</a><!-- m --> But you will soon see what I am talking about - unless we do have mastery of Hebrew or Arabic or Ge'ez. Also recent grammars are not necessarily easier or better than those freely available, at least in my opinion - I bought quite a few.
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Re: Best way to learn Syriac for cheap or free? - by borota - 10-16-2014, 02:22 PM

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