This course provides students with academic knowledge of the Uzbek Language as it is spoken and written today. It familiarizes students with strategies for real-life conversations, effective writing and reading. We cover vocabulary and grammatical structures required for communicating about day-to-day and academic topics in multiple registers.

Throughout the course, the practice of language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, grammar and writing will be stressed. During class students will work extensively with authentic materials, such as video clips, short films and pictures showing the real cultural life of the Uzbek people.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• be familiar with all common grammatical structures
• be conversant with standard Uzbek
• be familiar with formal and colloquial Tashkent Uzbek
• distinguish formal and informal speech in Uzbek
• read and compose culturally appropriate correspondence
• extract the main idea and details from spoken narrative
• follow news broadcasts
• compose culturally appropriate narratives
• skimming and scanning short texts in Uzbek

Students are also encouraged to take advantage of the summer program in Uzbekistan.