Intensive Tibetan Language Study Program
For Written and Spoken Tibetan
Tibetan classes start in the middle
of March each year
Tibetan classes end in the middle
of December each year |
Tibetan Language Course Overview
Beginner Tibetan Language Class:
First Three Month:
A. Basic Reading and Writing Lessons in Tibetan.
Book: Modern Tibetan Language Vol. I by Losang Thonden Page 1
to 134
Topics: Introduction to Tibetan alphabets, vowels, super-scribed
and sub-joined letters, prefixes, suffixes and post suffixes,
root letters, simple verbs, prepositions.
Objectives: To be able to recognise Tibetan letters and to read
and write words and build words.
B. Spoken Tibetan
Book: Tibetan Phrase book by Andrew Bloomfield and Yankyi Tsering
Simple Colloquial, dialogues in Tibetan, simple vocabulary
Greetings and other general conversations for shopping, eating
work etc.
Objectives: To be able to greet and use simple spoken words and
sentences to get to know about other and introduce oneself.
Six months:
A. Reading and Spoken Tibetan.
Book: Modern Tibetan Language Vol. I by Losang Thonden Page 135
to 250
Topics: Interrogatives, infinitive particles, intentional and
unintentional verbs, numbers, sentence structure, sentence endings.
Objectives: To be able to use words and simple sentences in writing
and spoken, and use of different ending verbs or auxiliary verbs,
tenses.
B. Book: Fluent Tibetan Vol. I & II by Jeffrey Hopkins.
Topics: Dialogue, abbreviated answers, building sentences, particle,
pronouns, future tenses, postpositions, object of verbs, honorific,
locative, alternate verbs.
Objectives: Be able to use double verbs and sentences both in
affirmative and Negative.
Nine months:
A. Book: Modern Tibetan Language Vol. II by Losang Thonden
Topics: Use of different verbalizers, comparisons/degrees and
related forms, notion of line, verbs, gerunds, exclamations and
other expressions.
Objectives: Be able to use correct verbalizers and spellings
and make sentences grammatically correct.
B. Book: Fluent Tibetan Vol. II & III by Jeffrey Hopkins.
(Unit 12 to 15)
Topics: Present tense, pronouns, imperatives, telling Numbers,
mathematical operation, nominalization, compound nouns, auxiliary
verbs, honorific, three main tenses, dialogues and revision of
all the previous lessons and their applications.
Objectives: Be able to use sentences in correct tenses and the
ending verbs in a sentence.
Advanced Tibetan Language Class:
First Three Month:
A. Book: Colloquial Tibetan by Tseten Choejore Lesson No.
1 to 7
Topics: Vocabulary, verbs, conjunctions, preposition, interjections,
phrases, pronouns, clauses, tenses-general and more specific,
oral drills.
Objectives: To develop fluency in spoken Tibetan.
B. Book: Speak Tibetan by Dhondup Tsering
Revision: Drill of pronunciation, super scribed and sub-joined
letters. Dialogues- greetings, work time, family, shopping, health,
looking for hotel, traveling, use of interjective, related vocabulary.
Objectives: To be able to speak in Tibetan on subjects day to
day.
Six months:
A. Book: Colloquial Tibetan by Tseten Chojor. Lesson No. 8
to 15
Topics: conjunctions, verbalizers, particles, forms of questions,
nominative and instrumental (agent), tenses on intentional and
unintentional verbs.
Objectives: To be able to use words and simple sentences in writing
and spoken, and use of different ending verbs or auxiliary verbs,
tenses.
B. Book: Tibetan Reader-IV Department of Tibetan Education,
Dharamsala
Topics: simple folk tales, songs, grammar, proverbs, idioms,
literary terms and expressions, prose and short Tibetan historical
stories.
Objectives: To be able understand literary language and also
to familiarize with Tibetan custom and habit and attitudes towards
life in general.
C. Tibetan Honorific by Tsewang Tamdin.
Polite and respectful words and phrases, to be used to address
elders and seniors at home and in the society.
Nine months:
Comprehension, vocabulary, literary language.
A. Book: My Land and My People, by H.H.The XIV Dalai Lama.
Topics: 1. A Peasant's son, 2 Quest for Enlightenment.
Objectives: To be able to understand literary Tibetan language
and use the same in written.
B. Poetry Book: Similes of Water by Gungthang Tenpai Dolme.
(20 to 30 verses.)
C. Book: Tibetan Honorific by Tsewang Tamdin
Structure and rhymes and moral lessons in the verses.
Objectives: To develop appreciation of Tibetan Literature
and poem, and to be able to compose essays and also develop creative
writing, and translations in Tibetan.
Note: The Course of Study and the books are just a guide to
follow and the teachers to suit the level of the students knowledge
in Tibetan language of respective classes may make adjustments
accordingly. Darjeeling has a large Tibetan speaking community
and it is advised that the students for their own progress should
always try to talk in Tibetan in the Tibetan shops, restaurants
and monasteries.
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Tibetan Language Course Fees
and Regulations
The course fees including the registration fees are as follows:
- For 3 months Tibetan language of study = US$230 + Registration
US$30
- For 6 months Tibetan language of study = US$340 + Registration
US$30
- For 9 months Tibetan language of study = US$450 + Registration
US$30
Please note that all school fees are payable in Indian Rupees,
at the time of arrival in Darjeeling, India.
Advanced registration for classes is strongly recommended. Please
try to inform us at least one month before the start of classes
of your arrival. Enrollment and course fees are paid in advance
at the time of registration and are not refundable. No reduction
is made for broken periods of attendance. A student is admitted
into the full time course of the center only after paying the
full fees.
Students are required to attend a minimum of 75% of the classes,
fail that course certificates will not be issued. If students
are absents the center will not make up for the lessons missed. |
last updated July 2, 2008
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