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by: Andrew Bloomfield, Yanki Tshering See Larger Image List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $13.57 You Save: $6.38 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $4.40 Third Party New Price: $11.90 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 495.483421 EAN: 9781559390989 ISBN: 1559390980 Label: Snow Lion Publications Manufacturer: Snow Lion Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 202 Publication Date: March 25, 1998 Publisher: Snow Lion Publications Sales Rank: 290354 Studio: Snow Lion Publications Related Items: Tibetan: Lonely Planet Phrasebook EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Tibetan Manual of Standard Tibetan The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan (Dictionary) Tibet (Country Guide) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Whether you are looking for a room, visiting a monastery, or bargaining for a bus seat, Learning Practical Tibetan will make immediate communication with Tibetans easy and fun. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - No one will understand you This is a good phrase book ONLY if you can read and pronounce Tibetan script already... The transliterations have frequent outright errors, but in general are simply wrong. They have used their own imaginative system of transliteration, which is fine, but spoken Tibetan words is simply not pronounced this way. As ONE example, according to this book, no Tibetan word ever has a consanent on the end! PAR and PAL and PAG are all PA, apparently. While endings are often softened or clipped in Tibetan, ... Read More Rating: - A good book, but certainly not the best Don't let the title of this review fool you, this is a really good Tibetan book. It is full of vocab and set up really well for Westerners. It is great if you are wanting to learn simple Tibetan phrases. But as the title says, this is a 'practical' not a comprehensive language book. The Tibetan language is incredibly complex and difficult. If you are taking a trip to central Tibet and want to know the basics of the Tibetan language, don't leave home without this book. If you want to learn the ... Read More Rating: - Very useful This is a very useful book. It is basically a phrase book, but I also gives word-by-word translation, and so you know how the sentences are made. Tapes are also useful. It is very practical in outlook, and frankly it could have been better with theoretical description of sound and tone marks - those who don't care can just skip them. Rating: - The Best Tibetan Book Out There Unless you get the audio forum set that has over 2 dozen tapes & several books, this book is the best thing to get you up to speed with Tibetan pronunciation and vocab. Very useful and user friendly, with lots of vocab and clear instruction, as the other reviewers have mentioned. With casual effort, you can make good use of the book, however the more time you put in with it, the more you will be rewarded in learning Tibetan. Rating: - Wonderful book I first read a glowing review of this book from Columbia University and decided to buy it. It's a wonderful book in its own right and especially good when you purchase the accompanying tapes. I used the book when I was in Nepal with great success, and imagine my surprise when I saw many Tibetans with the same book! They told me it helped them to learn English. By far better than the confusing Goldstein alternative (lonely planet), I thanks the authors for filling a gap with such a worthy product. see more Browse for similar items by category: Instruction - Foreign Languages - Reference - Subjects - Books - Southeast Asian Instruction - Foreign Languages - Reference - Subjects - Books - General AAS Foreign Languages - Reference - Subjects - Books - General Foreign Languages - Reference - Subjects - Books - General AAS Words & Language - Reference - Subjects - Books - Study & Teaching