About The Author:

Mr. Tsetan Chonjore has been working as the coordinator and instructor of Tibetan language for the University of Wisconsin s College Year in Nepal Program since 1983. He also taught at the above university during their Intensive Summer Language Course. A Lecturer of Tibetan language at Tribhuvan University Nepal from 1983-88 he has facilitated many Ph.D. (Linguistics) students from Japan former West Germany and the United States by acting as their instructor and informant.

About The Book :

Colloquial Tibetan is the result of the author s experience as a Tibetan language teacher to foreign students for 18 long years. It covers a detailed grammatical analysis of the Lhasa colloquial and clarifies the similarities and differences between literary and Lhasa colloquial grammar. In a simple fashion the author follows a contextual teaching method introducing unique forms such as the personal/impersonal perspective the evidential categories carried by verbs and conjugations the time-based aspect of the language etc.

Isbn No.    8186470301

Author:    Tseten Chonjore

Publisher:    Library of Tibetan Works & Archives

Binding:    Paperback

Language :   English

Edition:    1

No. Of Pages :    340

Year Of Publication :   2003