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| BunnyP Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5162 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Nepali | Message 1 of 12 23 October 2010 at 6:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi - just wondering if anyone is learning Nepali. What sources have you found useful? Do you have any good websites or tools to recommend? Thanks!
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| Morten Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4864 days ago 5 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Nepali | Message 2 of 12 09 August 2011 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Namasté!
There's an excellent introduction to Nepali available online, a 250 page pdf, it's on http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/projectteam/turin/downloads/n epali_primer.pdf The catch is that you have to learn the devanagri syllabary!... but don't let it scare you, it's these 50-something syllables, and once you've learned them, you've opened up a treasure trove, you know how to read and write also! 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Greendog Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5270 days ago 47 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 3 of 12 13 August 2011 at 7:31am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't have any resources, but I'm very curious as to why you'd like to study Nepali -
not that I'm criticizing! It's a very rarely studied language, and as I was recently (and basically still am as I have doubts about what I've decided on) going through the process of picking a new language, I'd like to make sure I'm not ignoring a very interesting one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Morten Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4864 days ago 5 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Nepali | Message 4 of 12 15 August 2011 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not just learning Nepali as some academic exercise, but because, well, the way my life has turned out, Nepali is now quite useful to me! I have a lot of Nepali speaking friends and acquaintances. Some of them are very old and will never learn another language. I love being able to speak with them!
Another thing is a project that I have in mind, documenting life in the Himalayas. Nepali will be quite helpfull for that purpose, although not mandatory. It will be some years before I'll be able to start such a big project, so in the mean time I'm doing what I can to learn Nepali :) Objectively speaking, there's probably not many good reasons to learn Nepali, as compared to Chinese, Japanese, Hindi etc... But you know, it's also kind of an attraction! A bit exotic! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Morten Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4864 days ago 5 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Nepali | Message 5 of 12 15 August 2011 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Greendog, I think whenever you pick a language to learn, you're always 'ignoring' a hundred other interesting languages... :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Greendog Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5270 days ago 47 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 6 of 12 16 August 2011 at 4:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I like exotic :D Interesting, good luck with your learning!
Morten, yes, very true. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6379 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 12 16 August 2011 at 5:43am | IP Logged | ||
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There seems to be some accompanying audio for the primer here.
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| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6357 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 8 of 12 16 August 2011 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I once did a couple of hours of L-R in Nepali just for fun (I don't have any plans to study it in the future :).
You can find an audiobook of the Nepali New Testament here: Faith Comes By Hearing - Nepali NT 1 person has voted this message useful |
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