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| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5283 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 1 of 6 07 January 2012 at 7:02am | IP Logged |
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I am thinking of taking an internship for a few months in Kathmandu, Nepal. I seen that the two most common languages are Nepali and Nepal Bhasa. I know nothing of Nepals languages, so I was wondering which would be most beneficial for a foreigner to learn for staying in Nepal. Also if you guys know osome possible resources for the given language do let me know.
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| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5283 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 2 of 6 10 January 2012 at 8:45am | IP Logged |
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Anyone have any feedback or advice at all? Really would like to get started asap.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4712 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3 of 6 10 January 2012 at 3:55pm | IP Logged |
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Have you checked Wikipedia? It says that Nepal Bhasa is the mother tongue of about 3% of the population of Nepal. Unless you are planning to specifically spend time with these people, Nepali is probably more suitable. I had actually thought Nepal Bhasa was the Nepali word for Nepali, since Bhasa means "language".
As to resources, have you searched Amazon? Teach Yourself Nepali would seem to be the best readily available textbook. You definitely want a book with a CD, and I would avoid the Euro Talk CD-ROMs like the plague. If you can spend a lot of money, this textbook with CD got better reviews. EDIT: a further bit of advice: both languages use the Devanagari script, so your best move might be to find any book to learn that script first. Rupert Snell's Teach Yourself Hindi Script comes highly recommended by people I know who have used it. Edited by Jeffers on 10 January 2012 at 3:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Danac Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5151 days ago 162 posts - 257 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Russian, Esperanto | Message 4 of 6 11 January 2012 at 3:01am | IP Logged |
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Just as a small supplement, I'd also get the Lonely Planet Nepali phrasebook. It's cheap,
and as phrasebooks come, they're some of the best ones. It's not a replacement for a course, but it's easy to carry around and still contains useful knowledge which might come in handy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 6947 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 5 of 6 11 January 2012 at 9:22pm | IP Logged |
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Take a look at the resources cited here, which include some course materials (with audio) that you can download for free:
http://sites.google.com/site/soyouwanttolearnalanguage/nepal i 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Morten Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4667 days ago 5 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Nepali | Message 6 of 6 19 September 2012 at 11:36am | IP Logged |
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I understand your confusion, but let me clear it up: "Nepali" is the common language spoken throughout the country. That's a lot more useful than "Nepal Bhasa", which is only spoken by the Newar community, mainly in small parts of Kathmandu.
PS "Nepal Bhasa" actually means "Nepal language", in Nepali. But the two languages are mutually incomprehensible. No wonder people get confused. As for resources, I have some listed on my blog about Learning Nepali - Good luck :) Edited by Morten on 19 September 2012 at 11:38am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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