{"product_id":"the-heart-of-tibetan-language","title":"The Heart of Tibetan Language Volume 3","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eWelcome to \u003cspan style=\"border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;\"\u003eVolume 3\u003c\/span\u003e of \u003cspan style=\"border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;\"\u003eThe Heart of Tibetan Language\u003c\/span\u003e! As with the first two volumes, this innovative textbook doesn't require you to have deep knowledge of English grammar to study \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eབོད་སྐད།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e. Instead, you will study the language by further deepening your understanding of the way Tibetans think and express themselves. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #3d85c6; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eRelying on our studies of \u003cspan style=\"border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;\"\u003eVolumes 1\u0026amp; 2\u003c\/span\u003e, this volume is a unique blend of colloquial language and Dharma vocabulary. Studying this textbook will certainly bring you much closer to your dream of understanding Dharma talks in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eབོད་སྐད།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e. In addition to advanced colloquial grammar structures, this book offers you a variety of Dharma related features. In each lesson, you’ll enjoy a dialogue and vocabulary about Buddhist topics, such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eཆོས་འཁོར་རིམ་པ་གསུམ།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eནང་པའི་ལམ་གྱི་རྩ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eནང་པའི་ལྟ་བ།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eཚད་མེད་བཞི།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e; a popular prayer, a well known quote, a short biography of a past Buddhist master, such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eཙོང་ཁ་པ།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eགུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eཀློང་ཆེན་པ།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e; a Tibetan song dedicated to Tibetan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eབླ་མ་རྣམ་པ་ཚོ།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e as well as a spotlight on a contemporary important female Buddhist teacher; including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eརྗེ་བཙུན་མ་བསྟན་འཛིན་དཔལ་མོ་ལགས།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e, H.E. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eའཆི་མེད་ཀླུ་ལྡིང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eདགེ་བཤེས་མ་སྐལ་བཟང་དབང་མོ་ལགས།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e and Venerable Robina Courtin. In order to inspire your study of literary Tibetan, verses from the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eལེགས་བཤད་ལྗོན་དབང་།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e are also included. Each of these features is associated with one of the non-human students who represent the diversity of interests, learning styles and personalities of Tibetan language students. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eFranziska Oertle’s novel approach introduces you to indigenous notions, logic, and categorisations used by Tibetans, combining them with a student-centred learning methodology. This highly effective method helps learners gain a deep understanding of the Tibetan mindset. As you learn how to communicate in colloquial Tibetan blended with Dharma terminology, \u003cspan style=\"border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;\"\u003eThe Heart of Tibetan Language\u003c\/span\u003e may even change how you view yourself and the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #3d85c6; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #3d85c6; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eExercise book:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003ePractice is the mother of all learning, especially when it comes to studying a foreign language. This accompanying exercise book, as well as the website with all the audio files, dialogues with footnotes and solutions to the exercises, are therefore indispensable additions to the textbook The Heart of the Tibetan Language. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eFeaturing a wide variety of exercises for each lesson in the textbook, the exercise book provides optimal methods and opportunities for practicing the three language skills: listening, speaking and reading. The exercises are skillfully designed to be engaging and enjoyable. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eEach lesson has two sections, the first one focusing on Dharma terminology blended with colloquial language, and the second one supporting your learning of the colloquial grammar presented in each lesson. Based on a rich variety of listening comprehension, speaking prompts, word ‘salads’, fill-in-the-gap exercises, matching, tic-tac-toe, memory games, and other playful exercises, you’ll put your newly acquired Dharma vocabulary and grammar knowledge into practice right away. In addition to the topics in each lesson, the exercises intentionally use a lot of intermediate grammar structures and vocabulary to reinforce them. Each lesson also includes two exercises using beautiful \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eགཞས་ཚིག\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e, song lyrics. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eBeyond being motivating and humorous through the pictures of the non-human students, the colorful page layout represents the colors of Tibetan prayer flags. In this way, we can keep our awareness alive about how \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eརླུང་རྟ་མཐོ་པོ།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e—or how fortunate—we are to have the precious opportunity to study the Tibetan language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #3d85c6; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eBorn in multilingual Switzerland, Franziska Oertle was always fascinated by foreign languages, cultures and religious traditions. Upon her first encounter with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in 2005, she dreamt of understanding his teachings in Tibetan. She left her teaching job to study in Kathmandu, Nepal. Franziska began teaching colloquial Tibetan while studying Buddhist Philosophy and Himalayan Languages at Rangjung Yeshe Institute. While co-teaching with her native speaker colleague \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Microsoft Himalaya'; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eརྒན་མི་འགྱུར་ལགས།\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e, she was deeply inspired by his passion for indigenous Tibetan grammar and the traditional way of explaining the language. She therefore went on to write her MA thesis on Tibetan grammar and decided to publish a 4-volume language textbook using that insider approach.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: #5f6368; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eFor the past sixteen years, she has been teaching and developing Tibetan language curricula and programs at institutions throughout Nepal and India, as well as the University of Virginia. She is currently designing and teaching Tibetan language courses online at SINI, the Sarnath International Nyingma Institute.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dharma Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51916666601692,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0038\/4742\/files\/CoverTextbook_FrontCoverebook.jpg?v=1783052441","url":"https:\/\/dharmapublishing.com\/products\/the-heart-of-tibetan-language","provider":"Dharma Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}