AIM OF THE REVIEW SESSIONS

These weekly review sessions put emphasis on speaking exercises, games, and drills. The aim of these weekly Review Sessions is to solidify and practice the content of the Lower and the Upper Intermediate Courses (Tib. 201 & 202) in an organized and joyful way together with your old and new friends and classmates. The goal is to gain more clarity about the grammar topics and ease or fluency at using (some of) the vocabulary of Lessons 11-20 of our textbook བོད་སྐད་སྙིང་པོ། The Heart of Tibetan Language Volume 2. For its table of contents, follow this link to Google Play, and click on the button "Free Sample".

Another goal is also to continue building healthy study habits, such as regular vocabulary, listening and speaking practice, etc. which are important for your continuous learning. 

REQUIREMENTS

Everyone is welcome to attend this course.

• Alumni of the Courses Tib. 201 & Tib. 202 (our past Lower and Upper Intermediate Courses in 2024) are qualified and invited to attend;
• our dear new students who enrolled into Tib. 301, and plan to do this review to catch up with the level of the forthcoming Tib. 301 Course;
• Intermediate-level Colloquial Tibetan students who did not study with us previously will need to complete a short placement test.

It is important to come to each session prepared, having reviewed the respective Lesson by watching the key-point videos and webinars, so that not much time will be spent on explanation, but the main focus will be on practice. 

SLC

Whether or not you’d like to build new Small Learning Communities with your fellow classmates just for these two months is up to you, and you’ll decide this as a group on day one of the class.

SCHEDULE & CONTENTS

Each session lasts between an hour and an hour and a half (including Q&A) depending on the number of participants. 

The dates and contents are the following:

Session 1: Saturday, January 4

Short introduction & Lesson 11: Verbalizers practice (& Way Description)

Session 2: January 11

Lesson 12: Modal verb practice & Travelling

Session 3: January 18

Lessons 13 & 14: Connectives (ན།, ཙང་། & ན་ཡང་།) practice & Clothing or Housing Talking about  

Session 4: January 25

Lesson 15: Auxiliaries of probability practice & All kinds of jobs

Session 5: February 1

Lesson 16: Reported speech practice & Health and Disease

Session 6: February 8

Lesson 17: Comparison and superlative practice & Animals

Session 7: February 15

Lessons 18 & 19: Nominalizers and relative clauses & Pilgrimage

Last Session 8: February 22

Lesson 20: Playing around with adjective suffixes & conclusion

IMPORTANT LOGISTICS

Class times are: 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. CET (winter time) Note for alumni: The first time slot is one hour later than what our class used to be.

Upon registration, you’ll be enrolled into a Review Module on Moodle where you can find the schedule, དཀར་པང་། (whiteboards) and class recordings. The Module looks like this and you can find it under “My Lessons”, “Dashboard” or “Site Home”.

There are no particular assignments or homework for these sessions other than reviewing the Lesson and coming to class with relevant questions. (Once in a while you might be asked to prepare a little something, bring some pictures or prepare for a game, etc.) 

TEACHER

The main teacher for these Review Sessions is རྒན་ Alexandra ལགས། (If there are enough students, རྒན་ལྷག་པ་ཚེ་རིང་ལགས། will also assist).

COST

The cost of these Review Sessions is $80. It includes eight live classes, access to the དཀར་པང་། and recordings of the live classes, assistance from རྒན་ Alexandra ལགས། if you have questions which you cannot solve alone or with your friends from your SLC.

Deluxe (aka.Ms. Giraffe) version:

If you also would like to have a weekly tutor session with a Tibetan native speaker during those 8 weeks, this is possible and the total cost then is $120 (Review sessions & weekly tutor classes). 

If you choose to have tutor classes, we’ll get in touch with you towards the end of December, so that you can fill in the form for the weekly availability. 

For logistic reasons of simplicity we do not offer any monastic discount for the Review Sessions this time. Thank you very much for your understanding about this and your kind generosity.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information about these Review Sessions, please get in touch directly with རྒན་Alexandra ལགས། 

tibetanatsini@gmail.com