AIM OF THE REVIEW SESSIONS

The aim of these weekly Review Sessions is to solidify and practice the content of the Lower and Upper Beginner Courses (Tib 101 & Tib. 102) 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 1-10 of our textbook བོད་སྐད་སྙིང་པོ། The Heart of Tibetan Language Volume 1. Another goal is also to continue building healthy study habits, such as regular vocabulary and reading practice, etc. which are important for your continuous learning. 

REQUIREMENTS

Alumni of the Courses Tib. 101 & Tib. 102 (our past Lower and Upper Beginner Courses in 2024) are qualified and invited to attend these classes, as well as our dear new students who enrolled themselves into Tib 201, and wish to do a review to catch up with the forthcoming Lower Intermediate Course Tib. 201. It is important to come to each session prepared, having reviewed the respective Lesson by watching the webinar and the key-point videos, so that not much time will be spent on explanation, and the main focus will be on practice. 

SLC

Whether or not you’d like to build new Small Learning Communities 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

Lesson 1 Simple greetings & reading; spelling and Wylie practice. Sentences with the non-verb “To be” Vocabulary Lesson 3. 

Session 2: Saturday, January 11

Lesson 2: Sentences with possession and location (the non-verb ཡོད།), pronouns, vocabulary around Lessons 1 & 2: བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། & ང་ཚོའི་སློབ་གྲྭ། 

Session 3: Saturday, January 18

Lesson 3: Introducing yourself and asking each other all kinds of questions. Talking about pictures, using all kinds of pronouns.་ Vocabulary Lessons 4 and 5.

Session 4: Saturday, January 25

Numbers and dates, Imperative. Vocabulary around Lesson 8 and 9: Cooking, Eating and Shopping

Session 5: Saturday, February 1

 Review of the Past Tense. Vocabulary Lesson 6: Holiday and Free Time 

Session 6: Saturday, February 8

Review of the Present tense, if there is time left: Future tense. Vocabulary around Lesson 7: Weather

Session 7: Saturday, February 15

Future tenses. Practicing all three tenses, the connective གར།

Last Session 8: Saturday, February 22d

All kinds of questions, concluding game!

IMPORTANT LOGISTICS

Class times are: 9 a.m. & 4 p.m. CET (winter time). Note for alumni: The first time slot is one hour later than what our Tib. 102 class used to be in 2024.

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

There are no particular assignments or homework for these sessions other than reviewing the Lesson by watching the webinars and the key-point videos, reading the relevant Lesson of the textbook, reviewing the vocabulary 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 teacher for these Review Sessions is Gen Alexandra ལགས། If there are enough students, or Gen Nat-la will also assist in practicing the colloquial grammar structures). 

COST

Simple version:

The cost of these Review Sessions is $80. It includes the live classes, access to the དཀར་པང་། and recordings of the live classes, assistance from Gen Alexandra 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 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 tibetanatsini@gmail.com