The School of Letters & Tongues

Writing as thinking made visible — how to build a sentence, a paragraph, and an argument that holds.

The world's stories and poems read slowly and in company, from Gilgamesh to the novel on your nightstand.

Workshop rooms for the working writer: draft bravely, revise honestly, and finish what you start.

What every language shares and why they differ — sounds, structure, meaning, and change, studied as a science.

First-year paths into the world's living languages, built on speaking from the first hour.

The languages that wrote the ancient world, taught for readers who want the originals.

The discipline of saying it again in another language — faithfully, idiomatically, and on deadline.

American Sign Language from the first handshape, and the Deaf community whose language it is.