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Why learn Tibetan?
Communication skills developed while learning Tibetan can improve your interpersonal skills in your native langauge as well. Adding Tibetan language skills to your business skills make you a more valuable an employee in the marketplace. Skills like problem solving, dealing with abstract concepts, are increased when you study Tibetan. Tibetan expand one's view of the world, liberalize one's experiences, and make one more flexible and tolerant.
How Long Does it Take to Learn Tibetan?
Tibetan is rated as a category 3 language by the Foreign Service Institute. It is considered moderately difficult for English speakers to learn and takes an average of 44 weeks (or 1100 class hours) to gain professional working proficiency.
Tibetan Alphabet & Pronunciation
[ka]
[tʃa]
[ta]
[pa]
[tsa]
[ʒa*]
[ra]
[ha]
[kʰa]
[tʃʰa]
[tʰa]
[pʰa]
[tsʰa]
[za*]
[la]
[a]
[ɡa*]
[dʒa*]
[da*]
[ba*]
[dza*]
[a]
[ʃa]
[ŋa]
[ɲa]
[na]
[ma]
[wa]
[ja]
[sa]
Basic Phrases in Tibetan
Hello | བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལགས།། (Tashi Delek) |
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Goodbye | (Shug Dan ja) |
Yes | |
No | |
Excuse me | (Gong-pa Ma-sum) |
Please | |
Thank you | ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (thuk-je-che) |
You are welcome | |
Do you speak english | (khye-rang yin-ji-kay gyab thub gi yo pe?) |
Do you understand | |
I understand | |
I do not understand | |
How are you | ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo-yimbay?) |
Fine thanks | |
What is your name | (Khedrand ming Gangyin?) |
My name is | (Ngai ming ___ yin) |
Pleased to meet you |
Tibetan Grammar
Tibetan Nouns
Man | |
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Woman | |
Boy | |
Girl | |
Cat | |
Dog | |
Fish | |
Water | (Cu) |
Milk | |
Egg | |
House | |
Flower | |
Tree | |
Shirt | |
Pants |
Tibetan Adjectives
Colors in Tibetan
Black | |
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White | |
Red | |
Orange | |
Yellow | |
Green | |
Blue | |
Purple | |
Pink | |
Gray | |
Brown |
Numbers in Tibetan
Zero | |
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One | (Cheek) |
Two | (Nyee) |
Three | (Soom) |
Four | (Zhee) |
Five | (Nga) |
Six | (Drook) |
Seven | (Dün) |
Eight | (Gyay) |
Nine | (G00) |
Ten | (Choo) |
Eleven | (Choo Cheek) |
Twelve | (Choo Nyee) |
Twenty | (Nyee-Choo) |
Thirty | (Soom Choo) |
Forty | (Shi Choo) |
Fifty | (Nga Choo) |
Sixty | (Drook Choo) |
Seventy | (Dün Choo) |
Eighty | (Gyay Choo) |
Ninety | (Goo Choo) |
Hundred | (Gya) |
Thousand | (Chik Thong) |
Tibetan Verbs
To be | |
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To have | |
To want | |
To need | |
To help | |
To go | |
To come | |
To eat | |
To drink | |
To speak |
Building Simple Sentences
More Complex Tibetan Sentences
And | |
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Or | |
But | |
Because | |
With | |
Also | |
However | |
Neither | |
Nor | |
If | |
Then |
Useful Tibetan Vocabulary
Tibetan Questions
Who | |
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What | |
When | |
Where | |
Why | |
How | |
How many | |
How much |
Days of the Week in Tibetan
Monday | གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ (dawa) |
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Tuesday | གཟའ་མིག་དམར་ (Mikmar) |
Wednesday | |
Thursday | གཟའ་ཕུར་བུ། (Purbu) |
Friday | Lhakpa (Pasang) |
Saturday | གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་ (Penba) |
Sunday | གཟའ་ཉི་མ་ (nyima) |
Yesterday | |
Today | |
Tomorrow |
Months in Tibetan
January | (ཟླ་དང་པོ) |
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February | (ཟླ་གཉིས་པ།) |
March | |
April | |
May | |
June | |
July | |
August | |
September | |
October | |
November | |
December |
Seasons in Tibetan
Winter | |
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Spring | |
Summer | |
Autumn |
Telling Time in Tibetan
What time is it | |
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Hours | |
Minutes | |
Seconds | |
O clock | |
Half | |
Quarter past | |
Before | |
After |