Languages Of The World (OOL)
Virtual /Online | Registration opens Tuesday, August 19, 2025 10:00 AM
Explore the world’s linguistic diversity. With more than 7,000 languages spoken today, their variety offers insight into the evolution of human language, thought, and civilization. This program examines how languages develop, change, and interact over time. Through a journey across six mystery locations—one per week—we will uncover the historical relationships among languages and the migrations, splits, and connections that have shaped them. By studying the languages spoken in these regions, we will gain a deeper understanding of human history and what it means to be human.
THURSDAYS, OCTOBER 16 THROUGH NOVEMBER 20
Noon CT | Each live session is 90 minutes
Thursday, October 16
Thursday, October 23
Thursday, October 30
Thursday, November 6
Thursday, November 13
Thursday, November 20
As this class is delivered by the National Resource Center for OLLIs (NRC) at Northwestern University, you will receive a welcome email from osheronline@northwestern.edu. The email will include your credentials (username & password) as well as a hyperlink to the Osher Online Website through which you will access your course website. Please save the link once you receive it.
Multi-session courses will use this same link each week.
Asya Pereltsvaig
Asya Pereltsvaig, PhD received a degree in English and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD in Linguistics from McGill University. She taught at Yale and Stanford, and has been teaching in lifelong education programs since 2010. Her expertise is in language and history, and the relationship between them. Her most recent book is Languages of the World: An Introduction, 4th edition. Pereltsvaig is a popular instructor for several OLLI programs around the country.