Tibetan 1

Take a journey into the heart of the language of Tibet. Explore the ins and outs of the Tibetan Uchen script and use it to construct written words and sentences. Understand simple Tibetan texts. Pose queries in the language and answer questions.

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What you'll learn

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

Engage with Tibetan at an introductory level
Pronounce all Tibetan consonants, vowels and the changes that occur when letters are stacked
Recognise the Tibetan Uchen script, and construct words and sentences from its syllabary
Employ a working vocabulary of around 250 words by working through the first seven lessons of Introduction to the Tibetan Language
Identify and use the basic colloquial sentence structures that will allow them to conduct everyday conversations and to read simple Tibetan texts
Ask about people they meet, their families, the quantity and quality of things and people they encounter, and when and where people are travelling
Consider the importance of family, travel and surroundings to people who inhabit the high mountains of Tibet.