Colloquial Tibetan: A Textbook of the Lhasa Dialect

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Colloquial Tibetan is the result of the author’s experience as a Tibetan language teacher to foreign students for 18 long years. It covers a detailed grammatical analysis of the Lhosa colloquial and clarifies the similarities and differences between literary and Lhasa colloquial grammar. In a simple fashion, the author follows a contextual teaching method introducing unique forms such as the personal/impersonal perspective, the evidential categories carried by verbs and conjugations, the time-based aspect of the language etc.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tsetan Chonjore

Mr. Tsetan Chonjore has been working as the coordinator and instructor of Tibetan language for the University of Wisconsin's College Year in Nepal Program since 1983. He also taught at the above university during their Intensive Summer Language Course. A Lecturer of Tibetan language at Tribhuvan University, Nepal from 1983-88, ghe has facilitated many Ph.D. (Linguistics) students from Japan, former West Germany, and the United States by acting as their instructor and informant.

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Title
Colloquial Tibetan: A Textbook of the Lhasa Dialect
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8186470301
Length
liv+340p., Tables; Index; 24cm.
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#Tibet