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)