Syllabus
1) Introduction: Phonology, Script, History of the Syriac Language.
2) Lesson 1:
1.1 The Emphatic State
1.2 Gender
1.3 The Perfect of the Simple Verb
1.4 The Proclitics
3) Lesson 2:
2.1 The Perfect: Full Inflection
2.2 Direct Objects
4) Lesson 3:
3.1 Pronominal Enclitics I
3.2 Predication of Existence and the Expression of Possession
3.3 Relative Clauses
5) Lesson 4:
4.1 Possessive Pronouns
4.2 Noun-Noun Possession
4.3 The Pronoun Koll
4.4 Pronominal Anticipation with Prepositions
6) Lesson 5:
5.1 Noun Plurals: Emphatic State
7) Lesson 6:
6.1 Independent Pronouns
6.2 The Short Pronouns as Copulas
6.3 Demonstratives
8) Lesson 7:
7.1 Inflection of III-Weak Verbs
7.2 The Perfect of Hwá
7.3 The Perfect with Object Suffixes
9) Lesson 8:
8.1 The Active Parcticiples
8.2 Uses of the Participle
8.3 Object Suffixes with the Third-Person Plural Verb
10) Lesson 9:
9.1 Adjectives
9.2 Pronominal Enclitics II
9.3 Possessive Suffixes with Plural Nouns
9.4 Paradigm of ya(h)b
11) Lesson 10:
10.1 Paradigm of I-y Verbs
10.2 Object Suffixes with the Remaining Persons (Perfect)
10.3 The Construct Singular
10.4 The Construct Plural
10.5 Adjectives in the Construct State
10.6 Adverbs
12) Lesson 11:
11.1 Paradigm of Hollow Verbs: Perfect
11.2 Paradigm of Geminate Verbs: Perfect
11.3 Paradigm of II-alap Verbs: Perfect
11.4 The Pleonastic Dative
13) Lesson 12:
12.1 Passive Participles
12.2 III-Weak Verbs with Pronominal Objects
12.3 Aba, Aha, and Hma with Pronominal Possessives
Annotation
"Syriac is the Aramaic dialect of Edessa, an important center of early Christianity in Mesopotamia. Edessene Syriac was rapidly accepted as the literary language of all non-Greek eastern Christianity and was the primary vehicle for the Christianization of large parts of central and south-central Asia" (Thackston, Introduction to Syriac, p. vii).
Students are introduced into Syriac alphabet, basic grammar and vocabulary, so that from the first lessons they are able to read a create simple sentences. After few classes they are able to read and translate the phrases based on the biblical vocabulary.