kurdiyamin

Kurmancî · A1 → B2

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Learn Kurdish — at your pace.

Lessons, audio for shadowing, and a weekly live class — taught by one teacher who treats the language as a guest.

Learners across the diaspora

How you learn

Hear it, try it, speak it

Hear it

Short videos and audio with a native speaker — you hear how Kurmancî actually sounds.

Try it

Small exercises after each lesson: match, choose, fill the gaps — no pressure.

Speak it

In the weekly live class you speak along — and feel the sentences settle in.

Lesson 0 — free

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Five small words and a tiny question. Three minutes. By the end, you'll have said your first sentence in Kurmancî — and you'll know if my way of teaching feels right for you.

  1. Begin
  2. Listen
  3. Try

Roj baş.

That's “good day” — and your first word in Kurmancî. Ready for four more?

Three plans

Choose how you learn

Self-paced

CHF 19/ month
  • Video lessons
  • Audio for shadowing
  • Quizzes & repeat-after-me

Self-paced + Live

CHF 49/ month
  • Everything in Self-paced
  • Weekly group class on Zoom
  • Lesson notes by email

Live only

CHF 39/ month
  • Weekly group class on Zoom
  • Lesson notes by email
  • No on-demand content
Evîn Zerya — teacher

Your teacher

Most of what I learned, I learned over bread and çay. The course is built the same way — small, warm, sitting down.

Quiet stories

What changed for them

No five-star one-liners. Just three people telling you what learning Kurdish quietly opened for them.

My dayê only spoke Kurdish to me when I was small, and after she passed I felt I had let something go. Three months in, I read her old letters. I cried at the kitchen table — but the right kind of crying.

Now reading her grandmother's letters
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Lara
Berlin · 34 · My grandmother's language

I wanted to surprise my wife's parents at their fortieth anniversary. By month four I gave a small toast in Kurmancî. My beau-père laughed and corrected my accent — that's when I knew I had been let in.

Toasted his in-laws at their anniversary
J
Joël
Lausanne · 41 · Married into a Kurdish family

I grew up Kurdish but went to school in English. The shame of not speaking my own language sat on my chest for years. Evîn teaches without making you feel behind. I'm caught up to where my eight-year-old self should have been.

No longer apologises in her own community
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Suzan
Toronto · 28 · Reconnecting after the diaspora

Honest answers

The questions
you actually have.

Not the generic ones. The real worries you have when you're about to commit to learning a language.

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Yes — and you're exactly who I had in mind. Many of my students grew up hearing Kurdish at home but were schooled in another language. We start from the alphabet, with kindness, and you'll often find you already 'know' more than you think. The first month is about giving names to feelings the language already gave you.

Ready when you are

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Twenty minutes a day, a weekly class on Wednesday, and a teacher who answers her own emails.