Learning Practical Tibetan

Whether you are looking for a room, visiting a monastery, or bargaining for a bus seat, Learning Practical Tibetan will make immediate communication with Tibetans easy and fun. This book is designed for anyone wishing to communicate with Tibetans, either in Asia or in the West, and is suitable for beginners as well as for students familiar with the Tibetan language.

Learning Practical Tibetan begins with a simple but complete grammar so that you can immediately begin to form your own sentences. Using both Tibetan script and an easy-to-understand phonetic system, the book then presents useful vocabulary, phrases, and dialogues related to situations you might encounter with Tibetans: eating in restaurants, shopping, speaking to monks, traveling with pilgrims, or visiting a Tibetan doctor. The appendix provides helpful sections on Tibetan numbers, dates, telling time, festivals, religious terms, and an extensive vocabulary list.

To help you learn how to pronounce Tibetan words correctly, mp3 files of Yanki Tshering reading Tibetan text found in Learning Practical Tibetan are available for download at this link: http: //www.shambhala.com/learning-practical-tibetan.html

Author: Andrew Bloomfield, Yanki Tshering
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.09h x 6.11w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9781559390989
ISBN10: 1559390980
BISAC Categories:
- Foreign Language Study | Indic Languages
- Foreign Language Study | Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)

About the Author
Yanki Tshering studied modern Tibetan at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal, and taught at the Experiment in International Living.