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The network’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background; it is not a university and grants no degrees. KCO’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background.

A sequence of courses for a purpose, ending in a capstone; it leads to a completion record, not a qualification.

Heritage Learner (teen)

Teens of the second and third generation

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5
Outlines drafted
5 of 5
Study time so far
100 h
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.

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  1. Şerif Derince (2025). Great Expectations, Trivialised Gains: a Critical Enquiry into Kurdish Heritage Language Teaching in Berlin. Kurdish Studies Archive. DOI 10.1163/9789004726253_006
  2. Mohammad Aliakbari, Golchin Amani (2023). The Motivational Self-System of Learners of Kurdish as a Heritage Language: A Mixed-Methods Study. Critical Literary Studies. DOI 10.22034/cls.2023.62865
  3. Joanna Bocheńska (2025). Heritageization of Kurdish Oral Traditions. Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_131-1
  4. Birgul Yilmaz (2018). Language ideologies and identities in Kurdish heritage language classrooms in London. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. DOI 10.1515/ijsl-2018-0030
  5. Jaffer Sheyholislami, Amir Sharifi (2016). “It is the hardest to keep”: Kurdish as a heritage language in the United States. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. DOI 10.1515/ijsl-2015-0036

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01The route

About 100 hours across the outlined courses, estimated. Courses without an outline are not counted.

  1. 01

    Kurmanji A1 (Latin)

    First steps in spoken and written Kurmanji, using the Latin alphabet.

    Foundations · 40 h Outline drafted

  2. 02

    Kurdish scripts bridge (Latin, Arabic-based, Cyrillic)

    Reading Kurdish in all three scripts it is written in, so readers can cross between communities.

    Foundations · 12 h Outline drafted

  3. 03

    Kurds in world history (survey)

    Kurdish history from antiquity to today, across the four states and the diaspora.

    Foundations · 30 h Outline drafted

  4. 04

    Newroz and the Kurdish calendar

    Newroz, its customs and meanings, and the calendars Kurds use.

    Foundations · 6 h Outline drafted

  5. 05

    Dengbêj and oral tradition

    The dengbêj singers and the Kurdish oral tradition of epic, lament and song.

    Foundations · 12 h Outline drafted

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    Capstone

    A family oral history, recorded with consent

02Your progress

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03What completion means

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This course only. It is not an accredited qualification, a degree or a language certificate.
Validity
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Withdrawn if obtained by misrepresentation.
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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Heritage Learner (teen). kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/pathways/heritage-learner/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Heritage Learner (Teen).” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/pathways/heritage-learner/.

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	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Heritage {Learner} (teen)},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/pathways/heritage-learner/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/pathways/heritage-learner/},
}

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04Research and sources

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  1. Great Expectations, Trivialised Gains: a Critical Enquiry into Kurdish Heritage Language Teaching in Berlin

    Şerif Derince · 2025 · Kurdish Studies Archive

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  2. The Motivational Self-System of Learners of Kurdish as a Heritage Language: A Mixed-Methods Study

    Mohammad Aliakbari, Golchin Amani · 2023 · Critical Literary Studies

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  3. Heritageization of Kurdish Oral Traditions

    Joanna Bocheńska · 2025 · Springer Nature Switzerland

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  4. Language ideologies and identities in Kurdish heritage language classrooms in London

    Birgul Yilmaz · 2018 · International Journal of the Sociology of Language

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIREOpen access

  5. “It is the hardest to keep”: Kurdish as a heritage language in the United States

    Jaffer Sheyholislami, Amir Sharifi · 2016 · International Journal of the Sociology of Language

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossref

  6. Ethnic-Racial Socialization Through the Lens of German Young Adults of Turkish, Kurdish, East, and Southeast Asian Heritage.

    Aral T, Juang LP · 2025 · J Community Psychol

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  7. Diasporic self-organisation through music: heritage, identity and political aspirations among Kurds in Berlin and Kurdistan’s Jews in Jerusalem

    2026 · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    ArticleTaylor & Francis

  8. Orientalization of the Kurds and Reproduction of Colonial Categorization by Kurdish Youth in Sweden

    Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden

    ChapterCrossref

  9. Trilingualism by design?, an investigation into the educational experience of Kurdish children schooled in Denmark

    Shelley K. Taylor · 2001 · Library and Archives Canada (Government of Canada)

    ThesisOpenAlex

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; Taylor & Francis (Publisher feed; headline and link only), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23.

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