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Fluent Tibetan: A Proficiency-Oriented Learning System The Tibetan Journal calls this course "a significant and unmatched achievement in the field of teaching colloquial Tibetan." We agree. Fluent Tibetan is the most systematic and extensive course system available in the Lhasa dialect of the spoken Tibetan language. It was developed by language experts working in conjunction with indigenous speakers at the University of Virginia under a grant from the International Research and Studies Program of the Department of Education in Washington, DC. This is the most complete and best Tibetan language package available. Includes 1010 page, 4-vol. text, and 18 cassettes (26 hours). $280 More about Fluent Tibetan...
Fluent Tibetan: A Proficiency-Oriented Learning System For Novice and Intermediate Learners The Tibetan Journal calls this course "a significant and unmatched achievement in the field of teaching colloquial Tibetan." We agree. Fluent Tibetan is the most systematic and extensive course system available in the Lhasa dialect of the spoken Tibetan language. It was developed by language experts working in conjunction with indigenous speakers at the University of Virginia under a grant from the International Research and Studies Program of the Department of Education in Washington, DC. This is the most complete and best Tibetan language package available. Includes 1010 page, 4-vol. text, and 18 cassettes (26 hours). $280 More about Fluent Tibetan...
Tibetan Phrasebook A revised version of Tibetan Phrasebook. Many students have expressed that this book and tape course is a wonderful language tool and much more than a phrasebook. It has been expanded it into a larger format, and includes the Tibetan script in addition to the phonetic system to make it more useful as a practical Tibetan language study tool. It begins by introducing both a phonetic system and a simple yet complete grammar. In addition to containing phrases and dialogues, each chapter is preceded by useful information, vocabulary, and some pointers about Tibetan customs and etiquette. The appendices include these helpful sections: numbers, dates, days and time, dates of festivals, religious and monastic vocabulary and a general vocabulary. Published by Snow Lion Press. 175 page book with 2 cassettes. $49.95
Tibetan For Trekkers And Travelers Originally developed for the Himalayan Trekking Course at U. C. Berkeley, Tibetan for Trekkers and Travelers is a quick and effective means to acquiring useful conversational skills for the day-to-day needs of the traveler. The course includes ten lessons covering essential conversational phrases, vocabulary and cursory explanations of grammar. Consisting of two parts - an English and Tibetan section and a Tibetan only section --- each lesson introduces new phrases and includes additional vocabulary and numbers. This course introduces the bare essentials for traveling in an efficient and effective format. Book and two cassettes. $44.95
Tibetan Philip Denwood The Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much of vital importance to the study of Buddhism. After surveying all the known varieties of Tibetan, including their geographical and historical background, this book concentrates on a phonological and grammatical description of the modern spoken Lhasa dialect the standard spoken variety. The grammatical framework which has been specially devised to describe this variety is then applied to the written varieties of Preclassical and Classical Tibetan, demonstrating the fundamental unity of the language. The writing system is outlined, though all examples and texts are given in roman script and where appropriate, the International Phonetic Alphabet.; a comprehensive bibliography is included. 1999, hardcover, 372pp. $109
The Illuminator Tibetan-English / English-Tibetan CD-ROM Dictionary A modern Tibetan-English dictionary done using proper scholarly methods from Lotsawa Tony Duff. The dictionary comes with special software designed specifically for the purpose and a complete set of high-quality Tibetan fonts. The dictionary itself has many special features and includes a range of terms not to be found in other dictionaries. It contains the complete verb listing from the Great Tibetan-Chinese Dictionary; the ancient glossary on old and new terms, The House of Cloves; a very wide selection of grammar terms; extensive definitions of mahamudra and Dzogchen terms; etc. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 CD-ROM. $199
Tibetan Newspaper Reader Michael Lempert, Tenzing Sangpo - Edited with Foreword by Paul G. Hackett This reader contains thirty-three articles from the Tibet Daily and the Lhasa Evening News, the two main Tibetan language newspapers in Tibet, and from Democracy, Tibetan Freedom, and Knowledge, publications from the Tibetan exile communities in India. Each selection includes the Tibetan text, a glossary, notes, and English translation. Also included are a Grammatical Sketch of Tibetan, and a cumulative glossary of all vocabulary items. With three 90 min. audio cassette recordings of the articles read by a native speaker. 1996, 173 pages, hardbound. Book and 3 cassettes $134
Tibetan-English Dictionary of New Words Paul G. Hackett The Tibetan-English Dictionary of New Words should be considered as a supplement to Tibetan-Chinese Encyclopedic Dictionary, Beijing, 1993. Absence of terms in that dictionary was the sole criterion for inclusion in the present dictionary. The Tibetan-English Dictionary of New Words contains some 5,000 words and phrases drawn from Tibetan newspapers published in current day Tibet. It is intended for use as a supplementary dictionary for readers of the Tibetan press and modern Tibetan literature. 2001, 280 pages, hardbound. $130
Grammar of Colloquial Tibetan C.A. Bell Reprint of the scarce third and last (1939) edition, 1996 paperback, 188pp. $55
A Tibetan-English Dictionary H. Jaschke Assembled by a missionary in Tibet during the mid-nineteenth century, this dictionary has an outstanding reputation and remains an important resource for students of the language and a convenient reference for travellers. Practical and nontechnical, it offers a full sense of the exact range of Tibetan words in their common usage. Since the missionaries were attempting to convey the foreign concepts of Christianity, they kept their language as plain and direct as possible. This volume reflects that clarity, deriving its matter and principles equally from Tibetan literature and speech. Each word is defined in terms of both its written and conversational usage, with accurate and plentiful examples. An English-Tibetan vocabulary offers phonetic pronunciations for hundreds of useful words. Hardcover, 671 pp. $65
English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan by Melvyn C. Goldstein The liberalization of political and intellectual life in China and the rise of Tibetan exile communities throughout the world have produced a resurgence of spoken and written Tibetan. These developments, together with increasing contacts between Western scholars and Tibetans, have created a widening circle of English-speakers--in government, business, academia, and elsewhere--who need to speak or write Tibetan with precision and clarity. For these people, and for others who want to communicate with Tibetans in their own language, Professor Goldstein's Dictionary will be an indispensable aid. The first scholarly English-Tibetan dictionary, as well as the only one that is semantically sensitive, this work specifies the Tibetan terms that correspond to the submeanings of a single English term. Containing roughly 16,000 main entries, most of which have multiple subentries, the Dictionary treats a total of 45,000 lexical items. Each entry includes both the written Tibetan orthography and a phonemic notation to indicate pronunciation. Grammatical features are also noted, and all examples of usage are presented with the romanticization of the written Tibetan and phonemic notation of the spoken forms. An introductory essay familiarizes users with the main features of Tibetan grammar. Hardback, 485 pp. $99
English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan by Melvyn C. Goldstein The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan surpasses existing dictionaries in both scope and comprehensiveness. Containing more than 80,000 lexical items used in political, social, economic, literary, and scientific discourse, this invaluable sourcebook includes the tens of thousands of new words that have been coined or that have come into use since Tibet was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in 1951. The dictionary lists lexical items characteristic of the special written genre that was used by Tibetan government officials up to 1959 as well as new terminology used in the Tibetan exile communities in South Asia. It contains both the core lexical terminology used in everyday life and standard modern writing and many proverbs and sayings that appear frequently in contemporary literary materials. The entries provide spoken pronunciation and thousands of illustrative sentences. Paperback, 1164 pp. $65
Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan : A Reading Course and Reference Grammar "Half of the words are read by implication." This Tibetan saying explains the main difficulty Westerners face in learning to read Tibetan fluently. This book will allow beginners to understand the logic of Tibetan grammar and syntax through graded readings and narrative explanations. The large glossary, which is indexed by page, will serve as an invaluable reference grammar for readers of Tibetan at all levels. The reading course includes a wide range of modern literary styles from literature, history, current affairs, newspapers, and even communist political essays. This book by Melvyn Goldstein includes examples of Tibetan texts with English translation. University of California Press, 1991, 493 pages. $79
The Tibetan Book of the Dead This book is a blueprint on the nature of soul. It guides you into levels of consciousness that engages optimum freedom for the soul at the moment of death and beyond. It is a book to be known by anyone who works with the dying. This is the Oxford University Press paperback edition. 249pp. $19.95
Talk Now! CD-ROM Course for Tibetan The Talk Now! series is for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, such as colors, numbers, food, shopping, and time. We have been selling this European-produced CD-ROM for a few years and find that it is highly praised by people from all over the world. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with native speakers. Interactive and fun, it is ideal for beginners and travelers. Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes and play a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress: keep your total score and print your own awards. You can also print your own picture dictionary for handy reference. On-screen help is available at all times in over 50 languages. Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Shipping weight 1 lb. $45 More about the Talk Now! series...
EuroTalk Network Editions Now you can run Vocabulary Builder, Talk Now!, World Talk, and Movie Talk through your school or college CD server or CD tower for simultaneous use of these titles on your network! You'll have access to permanent reports for all the activities done by each student in the class for such things as time and sessions spent on each activity, scores in the quizzes and games. These network discs operate on most networks that are in common use in schools and colleges, such as NT, Novell, and Macintosh networks. Students can select their names from classes, and run the program currently assigned to that class, and students may optionally also be allowed to join classes. Teachers can see at a glance which students are currently logged on and what they are doing, and they can add students to classes, remove them, or move them around. A reports facility allows you to display or print reports for entire classes, or for individual students. Student reports show the number of sessions, the time spent on each activity, and scores in the quizzes and games, and times and scores can also be displayed in chart form. The prices are highly competitive, and the price per unit goes down dramatically as one goes up in the number of users and units. With a configuration of 100 users and 100 units, which goes for $9,995, you pay less than $1 per unit per person! More about EuroTalk Network...
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Global Writer Professional Multilingual Word Processor Global Writer Professional is a word processor that lets you express yourself in 100 languages without learning a new keyboard layout or using stickers. It is very easy to use because it looks and feels like popular Windows applications. Global Writer's built-in and customizable spell checker and thesaurus make typing faster and more convenient than ever. Best of all, everything you need is included in the box, at an amazingly low price. Shipping weight 1 lb. $129 More information for Global Writer...
Global Office Language Support for Office 97/2000 Now you can write in all major languages from your standard English Windows in Office 97/2000! Unitype Global Office is an enhancement to Microsoft Office that adds text entry and visual keyboard display in over 100 different languages to these Microsoft products: Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint. It is easy to use, yet powerful enough to support the most demanding tasks of businesses, translation professionals, and academics worldwide. Best of all, the program is simple to install and everything you need is on one CD-ROM. Shipping weight 2 lbs. $250 More information for Global Office...