Learn Kurdish: The Complete Central Kurdish Language Course

Learn central Kurdish greetings and responses, from slow for hi to welcome replies like basham sparse, and time-based forms such as Benny bash and salamu alaikum.

Practice Central Kurdish greetings through role-playing exercises, using prompts to respond with appropriate salutations and phrases, including assalam u alaikum, in a social setting.

Explore Sorani Kurdish cardinal numbers and their classifiers, learn pronunciation hints like yazda, and see how numbers combine with nouns, as in nine cows no manga and ten people dacus.

Learn cardinal numbers from twenty to one billion in Kurdish with simple methods for combining large and small numbers, and review Iraqi currencies used in Kurdistan, including the dinar.

Build core Central Kurdish job vocabulary by exploring occupations across health care, education, sports, art, real estate, law, law enforcement, literature, and common trades.

Explore practical tools to improve Sorani Kurdish, including Google Translate for Sorani, online dictionaries such as Glosbe, and listening practice through Kurdsat, Kurdish Max, Ava, and Rudaw.

Learn what a noun is in Sorani Kurdish, distinguishing concrete and abstract nouns, and how to form absolute, infinitive, and definitive states with suffixes like an, ek, and kan.

Learn how to introduce yourself in Kurdish by greeting per the time of day, stating your name, nationality, birthplace, and profession, with optional age.

Explore demonstratives in Sorani Kurdish, including standalone pronouns and demonstrative adjectives. See how standalone pronouns replace nouns and how demonstrative adjectives modify nouns using this, that, these, and those.

Learn Kurdish farewell phrases, including Malalai kadin and legal, with singular and plural forms, and the friend-focused categoryjosh for bidding goodbye.

Explore Kurdish personal pronouns, including independent and bound forms, using min, to, o, and amma, and how suffixes attach to verbs to mark subjects and objects.

Learn Kurdish food and drinks vocabulary, including chicken parts such as wings (bal) and thighs (marecek), beef terms (gosht, steak), and common meals like nan and salata.

Learn how the kurdish ezafe links a part to a whole and connects adjectives to nouns, using the linking vowel e and variants with definitive suffixes and demonstratives.

Learn central kurdish sorani drink and fruit vocabulary, including water, tea, milk, coffee, orange, lemon, kiwi, and common fruits. Plus vegetables like tomato, cucumber, onion, garlic, and juice phrases.

Learn the basics of sentence structure in Sorani Kurdish, including subject and predicate, and the SOV word order (subject–object–verb) with intransitive, transitive, and linking verbs.

Learn to form yes/no questions in Kurdish by adding a fronted particle without changing word order, use rising intonation, and practice essential question words.

Learn Central Kurdish Sorani directions, covering right and left, up and down, cardinal directions north, west, and south, and position phrases like on top, under, beside, between, near, and far.

Learn how to form comparative and superlative adjectives in Kurdish using -ter and -trin suffixes, the la comparison marker, and the header prefix before adjectives to express the most.

Understand how Kurdish possessive pronouns attach as suffixes to the definite form of nouns, with exceptions for names, parents, homes, and body parts, including kinship terms.

Learn how Kurdish forms nouns from adjectives by adding the suffix e, how adjectives become adverbs or nouns with be and ezafe, and how ezafe links adjectives to nouns.

Master Kurdish prepositions and their uses to express method, place, time, and reason in Sorani, with examples like by car, with a pencil, at home.

learn how linking verbs in Kurdish link the subject to a noun, pronoun, or adjective at the end of the sentence, using the present tense copula and negation with ni.

Learn how linking verbs connect the subject to its complement using adjective phrases, noun phrases, and adverbials. Practice negation with ni and form sentences like they are doctors.

Learn how Kurdish adverbs and adverbial phrases function, with types such as time, frequency, manner, and place, and master their sentence placement after the subject or the verb.

Explore Kurdish script and the Kurdish alphabet, learning how letters appear in initial, medial, and final forms, how attachment works, and practice writing words.

Introduce Kurdish verb types, including intransitive and transitive verbs, and explain how verbs can be simple, complex, or compound with examples.

Explore how stem and root derive from the verb infinitive in Kurdish, showing past stem and present root formation, irregular cases, and practical examples to build tense understanding.

Learn Kurdish past simple by mastering the formation rules for linking verbs with boo, pronouns, and past theme; practice with transitive and intransitive verbs and negation using na.

The past continuous in Sorani shows an action started in the past and continued, formed by adding the present modal prefix dur to the past simple and negated with na.

Discover how to form Sorani present and future tenses from the present root with the da prefix and bound pronoun, for simple and complex verbs, with context signaling meaning.

Highlight three resources to continue Kurdish study, a basic grammar guide by Daniel Askim, a reference grammar with reading by W. M. Thackston, and a Kurdish grammar book.