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| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4930 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes  Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 57 of 62 04 April 2012 at 9:02pm | IP Logged |
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Today was the Chinese festival for recognizing your ancestors, commonly known as Tomb-Sweeping Day. As much as it is a time to remember those that went before, it is also a celebration of the coming Spring. It's a bittersweet kind of holiday, it seems, but one that captures the duality of existence.
In that spirit, I've found a few resources for Classical Tibetan and after my Chinese studies, I devote a small window of time on a language study that is for pure curiosity and fun. The chief text I am using is: The Precious Key, An Introduction to Literary Tibetan for Dharma Students by McComas Taylor and Lama Choedak Yuthok The timetable: Read a chapter every two weeks: 14 days, 14 sessions of ten minutes each day, minimum. The text has 20 chapters; I'll be done in 40 weeks. So by the end of the year, taking very small steps, I will have achieved a greater understanding of one of my "someday" languages. Let's begin... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4930 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 58 of 62 06 April 2012 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
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Today's lesson:
The Tibetan alphabet is composed of 30 letters, arranged in eight rows of three or four letters. It's learned, traditionally, by row. Today I relearned how to form the letters of the first row, along with the attendant pronunciation. The velar sounds of Row 1 ཀ ka ཁ kha ག ga ང nga Other resources to supplement The Precious Key: The Classical Tibetan Language by Stephan V.Beyer Edited by zhanglong on 06 April 2012 at 9:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4930 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 59 of 62 06 April 2012 at 9:43pm | IP Logged |
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Today's lesson:
Row 2: The palatal consonants ཅ ca ཆ cha ཇ ja ཉ nya The verbs "ni" and "min" Tibetan word Order is Subject Object Verb, which is different from both English and Chinese. di - this ni - to be, is min - to not be, isn't My first two Tibetan sentences: di ni lama yin This is the guru. di ni lama min This is not the guru. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4930 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 60 of 62 08 April 2012 at 12:33am | IP Logged |
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Chapter 01 is done now. The great thing about this text is that the chapters are short, the theory is kept at a minimum, and there are plenty of exercises.
For tomorrow's entry, I'll attempt to do some of them, but for now, I'm trying to find an online Tibetan dictionary that I know how to navigate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4930 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 61 of 62 08 April 2012 at 7:44pm | IP Logged |
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Today, I only practiced recognizing and saying the first 8 letters, and adding the chapter's vocabulary to a database I am building. Ten minutes may not seem like a lot of time (and it isn't), but it's amazing how much you can get done when you are completely focused on something.
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| zhanglong Senior Member United States Joined 4930 days ago 322 posts - 427 votes Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 62 of 62 09 April 2012 at 5:51pm | IP Logged |
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For the rest of 2012, new entries for this log will be incorporated into my Chinese Odyssey log. It's much easier to search and write one log, than to write three.
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