Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 24 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Bob Lyle
Rating
Course Overview
Lessons for English Speaking Learners
This course is designed to teach English-speaking students how to read the Myanmar (Burmese) language using a streamlined direct approach. It provides pronunciation for consonants, vowels and special symbols without requiring the student to learn the names of each. It explains how to pronounce stacked consonants, weakened vowels and voiced consonants using simple, well-illustrated examples. It includes a lesson on Myanmar tones described in a way that has made sense to a lot of English speaking students. It also includes a description of the difference between spoken and literary Myanmar. The course uses the pronunciation of English words as a basis for explaining Myanmar pronunciation.
Course Content
- 1 section(s)
- 36 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
What You’ll Learn
- Students should be able to begin reading Myanmar text.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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GG Livingston
The instructor focuses on what is important for beginners to know about the language and understands what is not. By not relying on Romanized script the learner does not have to learn an extra step that is useless when using burmese dictionaries, google translate and other tools. Since Burmese does not have a standard Romanized version using Mynglish becomes an extra step later on to translate in your brain between all the various spellings/phonics guesses you have encountered. The script seems complicated, but I wish other teachers had focused more on it when I first started learning Burmese. Going slow at the beginning by learning the script and how to read would have resulted in more progress overall.
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AAnna-Lena Weber
Amazing. Clear and easy to follow. The Quizlets are so helpful!! Much better than learning from locals as they can’t explain the patterns bc they don’t remember how they learned it. Highly recommended
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AAidan Boreham
The course is perfect for me because I need the connection to English sounds in order to properly understand. I had been working through a grade one textbook for Burmese school kids but it doesn't cover the "stopped tone" vowels, so this course fills that particular gap in my knowledge.
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JJacques Forget
Quite complete and well put together. A lot of the irregular rules, that native Burmeses couldn't explain when asked, (I have worked in Myanmar and my wife is Burmese), make more sense after this course. Nevertheless it is just the beginning as I will have to comeback often to this course, especially the last four lessons, as I'm just beginning to learn. Mr Lyle's voice is almost soothing, not condescending, and encouraging. A very important factor for me. Although my mother tongue is French, I could follow explanations and the related vowel sounds weren't too hard even though, at times, I used some French vowels like "é" for "ay" and "è" for "et" or "ais". The exercises help but I wished I could have had access to PDF copies.
