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.
Faculty/Instructor(s): Nima Bhuti
This course is a continuation of the 2024 Summer Institute 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.
Faculty/Instructor(s): Nima Bhuti
This course is a continuation of the fall 2023 intermediate colloquial Tibetan course.
Students should know:
Students should know:
- What the essential and existential verbs are and how they are used (ཡིན། རེད། ཡོད། འདུག ཡོད་རེད།and it's negations)
- Demonstrative pronouns (འདི། དེ། ཕ་གི། ཡ་གི། མ་གི།and it's plural)
- Personal pronouns (ང་། ཁྱེད་རང་། ཁོང་།and it's plural)
- Volitional and non-volitional verbs
- Transitive and intransitive verbs
- Verb tenses (past, present, and future) and it's auxiliary verbs
- Basics grammar particles: e.g., locative, genitive, and instrumental cases.
- Some understanding of the difference between honorific and non-honorific terms and when to use them
- How to read somewhat more complex Tibetan sentences aloud (but not necessarily understand their entire meaning)
Faculty/Instructor(s): Nima Bhuti