This CD-Rom is an introduction to Tibetan language as well as a supplement and addition to Fluent Tibetan-the four volume textbook arranged in fifteen units with 26 hours of tape recordings.
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Elizabeth Napper, Instructor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, has received extensive instruction from Lati Rinpoche and other lamas in India and the U.S. -- Elizabeth Napper
--This text refers to the
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Excellent for a self-learner who wants to go beyond survival,
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This review is from: Fluent Tibetan: A Proficiency Oriented Learning System(Novice & Intermediate Levels) (Audio Cassette)
I've hesitated a long time between Hopkins' "Fluent Tibetan" with tapes and Tournadre's "Manual of Standard Tibetan." I ended up getting both, and I find they complement each other quite well."Fluent Tibetan" is based on the unsurpassed method devised by the Foreign Service Institute, which aims at developing fluency in a short period of time. The tapes are quite audible and provide an extensive set of oral drills, something I haven't seen elsewhere. Some reviewers have complained about the amount of repetition, but I think being bored with repetition in an indication that one is becoming fluent with the material, i.e., the course is delivering the goods. Drilling is quite important when a language has a very different grammar (from my experience with Hebrew). On the other hand, the vocabulary is rather sparse at about 500 words. I find the main strength of the set is in the drills and in the fact that it is mostly, but not exclusively, based on audio material. The set aims at the low-intermediate level. This can keep you busy for about three months if you keep a good pace. The "Fluent Tibetan" CD-ROM, available separately, does not have any drills, and in summary is quite useless.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Learning Tibetan from the ground up.,
This review is from: Fluent Tibetan: A Proficiency Oriented Learning System(Novice & Intermediate Levels) (Audio Cassette)
Although I agree with the other reviewers that the repetition is sometimes enough to drive you to tears, it certainly drills basic sentence structures and words deep into your brain. You have to be creative to maintain interest by listening to the tapes without the book, reading the book without the tapes, listening to the tapes while you are folding the washing! It works! Since this course takes a few months to complete, I would not recommend it to someone who wants to pick up tourist phrases: there are other books available which are more focussed. But, if this is your starting point for learning spoken Tibetan for some other purpose, start here. There's almost nothing else available anyway.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Learning Tibetan parrot fashion,
This review is from: Fluent Tibetan: The Vocabulary and Dialogues--CDR: A Proficiency-Oriented Learning System Novice and iNtermediate Levels (Audio CD)
There is a dearth of modern Tibetan language learning materials, and unfortunately this item is one of the few available. It uses drills/subsititution repetition, whereas good language learning materials use what applied linguists call the functional method, where only those language skills which a person will actually use are taught and developed. In this package, for example, there is not the expression "What do you call this [as the speaker points to the object] in Tibetan?" Use of this expression is a basic strategy for people learning a foreign language. I personally found the almost endless repetition and substitution to make sentences impossibly tiresome, and felt that I had wasted a lot of time learning phrases that I would never use. However, this is the first of its kind, and hopefully future materials developers will take more notice of the methodologies now in use for the teaching of other languages.
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