Yurok language exercises
These exercises will generate a random audio recording of a Yurok word or sentence, or a random photo, that you can use to test your knowledge of the language. You can repeat the exercise as often as you want. Choose your preferred exercise below.
Yurok words
Click below to listen to a randomly selected Yurok word. You can then type your transcription or translation.
Yurok sentences
Click below to listen to a randomly selected Yurok sentence. You can then type your transcription or translation.
Sentence difficulty level: all basic intermediate advanced
Photographs
Click below to see to a photo associated with the Yurok dictionary. You can then type the Yurok name of what you see. (The dictionary currently contains very few photos, so the same images will reappear often.)
Teaching, learning, and documenting Yurok
Lucy Thompson's 1916 To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok woman, among the first books by a Native American author, is a valuable source of Yurok words and phrases spelled using her own distinctive but logical system. Thompson later also worked with the linguist Gladys Reichard on Yurok language documentation.
[Photo: Bancroft Library.]
[Photo: Bancroft Library.]