Tibetan Language Course, Tibet House

Course Structure

 

Beginner Level:

Topics to Cover:

1: Alphabet

2: Prefixes and Suffixes

3: Head Letters

4: Subjoined Letters

5: Numbers and Time Expressions

6: New Words (Parts of the Body, Family Members, Colours)

7: New Words (Names of Animals, Birds, Fruits)

8: Verbs and Tenses, Four Negatives

Intermediate Level:

Topics to Cover:

1: Pronouns, Notion of Time, Affixes (To Know, Experience / Happen, Desire/ Willing)

2: Verbalizers (Gyap and Tang), Adjectives, Opposite Words, Affix ‘Khen’

3: Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers, Honorific Words, Verbs and Tenses

4: Cases (Nominative Case, Objective Case, Instrumental Case, Dative Case, Ablative Case, Genitive Case, Locative Case, Vocative Case)

5: About (Flowers, Colours, Weather, My School, and My Family)

6: About (My Shop, My Friend, My Office, People, and Trees)

7: About (My City, My Country, Tibet, and India)

8: Stories (Mother and Hen, Mouse and Elephant, About Types of Water)

Advanced Level:

Topics to Cover:

1: About (Colours / Types of Water), Verbalizer Gyap, Sakya Lekshay

2: Story (Story of Air / Story of a Crow), Vebalizer Tang, Sakya Lekshay

3: Story (Nomads / Woodcutter and Goddess), Grammar (First and Eighth Cases), Sakya Lekshay

4: Story of a Cat and a Monkey, Story of a Wolf and a Crane, Grammar (Ladon Particles), Sakya Lekshay

5:  About Hospital, Story of aTail, Grammar (Edhen Particles, Ablative Case)

6: Story of the Miserly Owner, the Story of the Four Harmonious Friends, Grammar (Zoktsik Particle, Gyendue Particle)

7: Grammar (Lhakche Particle, Jaydue Particle, Chingsok Particles)

Proficiency Level:

Topics to Cover:

1: Story of a Little Bear Went Shopping, Opposite Words, Sakya Lekshay

2: Festival of Turning the Wheel of Dharma, Honorific Words, Sakya Lekshay

3: Sotry of a Lion and a Rabbit, Sakya Lekshay, the Definition of Cases

4: Even Science Doesn’t Know (Funny Tale 1), Orthography, Grammar (Nidra and Dangdra Particles)

5: Story of the Stone Lion, Two Rupees Given By the Mother (Funny Tale 2), Grammar (Dhedra and Gangdra Particles)

6: Grammar (Dhakdra Particle, Gagdra Particle, Chingsok Particles)