Self-study resources

We hope to provide accessible, user-friendly material for self-study purposes. Currently, we are offering:

A 21 lesson self-study introduction to Manchu based on a course taught by David Porter at Harvard in the Fall of 2016. If you are trying to teach yourself to read Manchu, completing each of these lessons should get you off to a good start.

A set of 10 handouts that serve as reference materials for important topics in Manchu orthography and grammar, from a list (with explanation and usage examples) of nearly every Manchu verb form, to a guide to Manchu’s wide variety of question words. These were prepared by Mark Elliot for his 2013 summer school Manchu class at Harvard.