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
Florence Shaughnessy may have contributed more to Yurok language documentation than any other person. Not only was she a generous host to linguists from R. H. Robins in 1951, through William Bright, Howard Berman, and Paul Proulx, to Jean Perry in 1986, teaching her language and recording many texts over four decades, but she was a recognized leader and knowledgeable elder within her community.
[Photo: Diana Heberger.]
[Photo: Diana Heberger.]