LAN 510 Intermediate Colloquial Tibetan (continued)

Also taught by Nima Bhuti, this course is a continuation of the 2024  fall semester intermediate colloquial Tibetan course. This course is for students with an established grounding in colloquial Tibetan. The focus will be to gain further fluency in reading, speaking, listening, and understanding Tibetan using the Central Tibetan dialect. Classes are mostly Tibetan with minimal English.

Required Texts:

Speak Fluent Tibetan by Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam Peltsok (Google Books)

Speak Tibetan the Tibetan Way by Nyima Dekyi (Google Books)

PREREQUISITE:

Although this is a continuing course from the 2024  fall semester, you are welcome to take this course if you have not taken the previous one, but please contact Nima Bhuti first at nbhuti.tibetanlesson1@gmail.com if you have questions about your level.

Students should know:

  1. The equivalent of the first 35 chapters of Speak Fluent Tibetan and Speak Tibetan the Tibetan Way.
  2. What the essential and existential verbs are and how they are used (ཡིན། མིན། རེད། མ་རེད། ཡོད། མེད། འདུག མི་འདུག ཡོད་རེད། ཡོད་མ་རེད།)
  3. Demonstrative pronouns (འདི། དེ། ཕ་གི། ཡ་གི། མ་གི་ལ་སོགས།)
  4. Personal pronouns (ང་། ཁྱེད་རང་། ཁོང་། མོ། ཁོ་ལ་སོགས།)
  5. Volitional and non-volitional verbs
  6. Transitive and intransitive verbs
  7. Verb tenses (past, present, and future) and auxiliary verbs
  8. Basics of locative, genitive, and instrumental cases
  9. Some understanding of the difference between honorific and non-honorific words and when to use them
  10. How to read somewhat more complex Tibetan sentences aloud (but not necessarily understand their entire meaning)

Dates: January 22 - May 14, 2025

Days and Times: Wednesdays, 5 - 6:30 pm Pacific Time

COST:

$200

Nitartha’s Payment Plan and Financial Assistance (PPFA) program is funded by fellow students to support those who would not be able to attend the Institute’s courses without this assistance. To request aid, please fill out the PPFA application before you register for the course.