Chonjore Tsetan, Abinanti Andrea Colloquial Tibetan: A Textbook of the Lhasa Dialect

Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 2003. — 376 p. — ISBN: 81-86470-30-1.This book is made up of 15 lessons in which the author covers the grammar of the Lhasa colloquial Tibetan language. A number of examples are given in sentences, and the difference between the literary and the colloquial is explained. There is no book out there that so well explains the usage of the Tibetan verb-endings. This is due to the fact that the author does not use English grammar as a model for teaching Tibetan grammar.Colloquial Tibetan has a detailed grammatical analysis of the Lhasa colloquial Tibetan and clarifies the similarities and differences between literary Tibetan and Lhasa colloquial grammar. In a simple fashion, Tsetan Chinjore follows a contextual teaching method introducing unique forms such as the personal/impersonal perspective, the evidential categories carried by verbs and conjunctions, and the time-based aspect of language. This book is the result of his experience as a Tibetan language teacher to foreign students for eighteen years.