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Video Course: Learn Syriac

The channel behind the recordings on this site also produced a full video course in Syriac — grammar lessons plus exercises that read real liturgical texts you will meet in the hymns here. It pairs naturally with our script and pronunciation guides.

Lessons

Section titled “Lessons”
  1. Introduction
  2. Letters and vowels
  3. Pronunciation rules
  4. Nouns
  5. Pronouns
  6. Affixed pronouns and the verb “to be”
  7. The functions of the letter Dolath
  8. Complements
  9. Verbs

Exercises — reading real texts

Section titled “Exercises — reading real texts”
  1. The Trinitarian formulas
  2. The Lord’s Prayer — sing along with Aboun dba’Shmayo
  3. The Ave Maria
  4. The Words of Consecration — compare the hymn page
  5. The incense hymn
  6. An anaphora prayer

A good path: watch lessons 1-3, then start singing from the transliterations while the grammar lessons continue — the hymns are the best practice material there is.