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
Weitchpec Frank, a young man when he first worked as an interpreter and guide for A. L. Kroeber, also taught Kroeber and his colleagues, over many years, much about Yurok culture and the Yurok language. Frank recorded texts beginning as early as 1901.
[Photo (1908): Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology.]
[Photo (1908): Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology.]