Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guidebook for Learning Tibetan

Contents: 1. Biography of Thonmi Sambhota. I. Vowels and consonants: 2. Eight symbols of the origin points of the letters. 3. Thirty consonants. 4. The origin of the thirty consonants. 5. How to pronounce in English?  Some single letters have meaning. 6. The four vowels. 7. How to pronounce when four vowels are used with thirty consonants? 8. Words formed by combination of vowels and consonants? 10. Vocabulary. 11. Prefix, root letter, suffix and post suffix. II. The step by step method of learning how to read Tibetan. 12. Learn how to spell Tibetan letters. 13. Ten suffixes with root letters. 14. Read the two words together. 15. Root letter with the vowels and suffixes. 16. Root letter with the five prefixes. 17. Root letter with both the prefix and suffix. 18. Post suffixes after the suffixes. 19. How Tibetan letter is read. 20. Root letters that change their sounds with prefixes. III. Three Gochen (superscripts): 21. Rago, the superscript Ra. 22. Superscript ra with suffixes prefixes vowels and post suffixes. 23. Lago, the superscript La. 24. Superscript la with the suffixes prefixes and vowels.25. Sago, the superscript sa. 26. Superscript sa with the suffixes prefixes and vowels. 27. 7 Yatag, 28. 12 Ratag. 29. 6 Latag. 30. 12 wazur. Double and triple stacked letters and others: 31. Example of ba root letter which change with da prefix. 32. Double and triple stacked letters. 33. How to read both subscribed and superscribed letters together. III. Learn how to read Tibetan condensed or shorthand words: 34. Recite the prayers. 35. The way of reading Tibetan sentences. 36. The prefixes used only with consonants. 37. Language pronunciation. IV. Used in Sanskrit: 38. The six reversed letters (log yig drug). 39. Five heavy sounding letters (Thugpo nga). Gender letters: 40. Root letters. 41. Prefixes. 42. Suffixes. V. Different written Tibetan letters: 43. Explanation of Wu-chen written letters. 44. Others. 45. Seven seals that avoid mistakes. 46. Introduction to tenses and numbers etc. 47. Explanation of the book cover.