Nepali course (by Umesh Regmi and Sudha Dahal, MS Nepal)
This course aims at foreigners who wants to learn daily spoken nepali fast. It does not require you to learn Devanagari, the Nepali alphabet. It has a special focus on preparing Development Workers to work and live in Nepal
Basic Language Training: Part One consists of 16 Nepali lessons (180 pages)
Basic Language Training: Part Two consists of 15 Nepali lessons (210 pages)
Follow up course part one, two and three are available on request
Please note that only PDF's are available. To get editable .doc files, please see the About the material page.
Supplementary text material include: (browse files)
Flash cards
Numerals poster 1-1000.000
Verb conjugation, appendix & posters
Interrogatives poster
Supplementary audio-visual material include:
MS Nepals Basic Language Training lessons 1 to 31 as MP3 files: browse
English-Nepali language review video: download avi movie (17 MB)
(courtesy of Nikolaj Kilsmark, MS Nepal)
Nepali numbers as MP3 files: browse
Danish-Nepali sound dictionaries (20 files, approx 1000 unique words): browse
Tip: Download MP3 files for your MP3 player or computer, or burn a CD to listen to. Listen and learn while you ride your bike, do the dishes etc.
Download all as a single ZIP file (130 MB).
Nepali: A Beginner's Primer, Conversation and Grammar (not by MS)
This is another exellent free course, by Banu Oja and Shambhu Oja, with editorial assistance from Mark Turin, Cornell University.
This course aims at foreigners who wants to learn daily spoken nepali.
Note: It requires you to learn Devanagari, the Nepali alphabet (which requires some devotion).
Download PDF book (225 pages) from here.
Supplementary material:
Nepali Workbooks, containing online exersices: http://lrc.cornell.edu/students/workbooks/nepali
Sound corresponding to the course: http://lrc.cornell.edu/medialib/np/npb
A video course version (beta): http://backup.lrc.cornell.edu:8088/sandbox/nepali/dialogs
Sample text / Eksempler på tekst
Example of a contract between a MS Development Worker (DW) and his/hers employers, courtesy of Jacob Nordfalk
As MS is in Nepal to do developing work, we should also try to be a model of the way we would like the things to be, at least in the small.
I think this includes to make written contracts with the staff we employ. Imagine that you yourself didn't have a contract with your employer, and you will understand the point!
Here is an example of a contract between a DW and his/hers didi or garden man, using words that both DW and didi/garden man knows.
