Reading Tibetan

Learning to read Tibetan

Whether you are a total beginner or someone looking for an easier way to learn how to read Tibetan, this course is made for you. We have tailored this course for different levels of people who do not know how to read Tibetan yet.
We will cover all you need to know to be able to read Tibetan effectively: from tones to syntactic concepts, history to modern pronunciation and more!

This course includes academic theory as well as practical and useful knowledge to let you understand the Tibetan culture better as well as proficiently read the language.

To make everyone find what they need, the contents include: 

1. Introduction

2. Get the Most from This Course

3. History

4. EXERCISE: Set the Stage for Success

5. FAQ: dialects and pronunciation

Tones

1. Introduction

2. Lower aspirated

3. Lower un-aspirated

4. High un-aspirated

5. High aspirated

6. EXERCISE: recognise the tones

7. Conclusion

Consonants

1. Introduction

2. Lines 1-2

3. Lines 3-4

4. EXERCISE: Explore Your Role Models

5. Lines 5-6

6. Lines 7-8

7. EXERCISE

8. Conclusion

Vowels

1. Introduction

2. 4 vowels

3. Mark root letter

4. EXERCISE: reading

5. Conclusion

Prefixes

1. Introduction

2. 8

3. effect

4. EXERCISE: reading

5. Silent, or?

6. Conclusion

Suffixes

1. Introduction

2. 12

3. Consonant rule

4. Umlaut rule

5. Combined rules

6. EXERCISE: reading

7. Conclusion

Post-suffixes

1. Introduction

2. 2

3. EXERCISE: reading

4. Conclusion

Superscripts

1. Introduction

2. number

3. similarities?

4. EXERCISE: reading

6. Conclusion

Subscripts

1. Introduction

2. rata

3. yata

4. other

5. EXERCISE: reading

6. Conclusion

Exceptions

1. Introduction

2. ་བ་

3. དབ་

4. EXERCISE: reading

5. Conclusion

Conclusion

1.What Next?

2. Bonus Lecture: More FAQs with [Instructor’s Name]

An extra section will include how to read transliterated Sanskrit in Tibetan.