Author: Dhondup Tsering
Publisher: Pilgrims Publishing
Year: 2004
Language: Bi-Lingual
Pages: 161
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8177692143
Description
Speak Tibetan like a Tibetan provides the student with an opportunity to learn and speak the Tibetan language as it is spoken today. Not only has the author provided the student with simple and practical examp1cs of its usage in the present day but he has also very carefully explained the pronunciation and idiosyncrasies found within the language.
This revised and enlarged edition of Colloquial Tibetan is the ideal book for anyone interested in learning modern spoken Tibetan. The engaging dialogues cover every situation a learner is likely to face-from getting a haircut to mailing a parcel in the post office. Underlines and appropriate footnotes indicating subtle changes in the sound of a letter coupled with the three chapters at the beginning on pronunciation are a key feature of this book. This book will prove it self a boon to both scholar and layman and will provide all opening to the greater world of Tibetan literature and learning.
Dhondup Tsering is presently the assistant editor of Tibet Journal, a quarterly publication on Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. He is a regular contributor on Tibetan history, culture and politics to various journals and magazines and was formerly a freelance translator based in Dharamsala.
Contents
Preface
1. Pronunciation Guide – I
2. Pronunciation Guide – II
3. Pronunciation Guide – III
4. Essential Words
5. First Contact
6. Eating and Drinking
7. Work and Play
8. The Family
9. Doing the Shopping
10. Health
11. Room Hunting
12. Travelling
13. Discovering Lhasa
14. What, where, when, who and how?