nepali
Nepali
Nepali
Essays
- Information on Nepali history, grammar etc.
- Information on the Nepali script, pronunciation etc, with links.
- Article with diagram on the history, dialects, script, grammar and role in society of Nepali.
- A short guide to Nepali and resources for learning it.
Learning Nepali the SOAS Way by Mark Turin, 1999
- A pdf review of different instructional materials available for Nepali. A review of 'Talk Now! Learn Nepali' is available here. More articles by Mark Turin are available here.
- Concise information on the language, dialects, structure, writing and resources.
Courses
Nepali: A Beginner's Primer by B. Oja & S. Oja, 2004
- A downloadable e-book with 16 lessons that teaches using dialogues, vocabulary lists, grammar explanations and exercises. A very useful resource. Audio is available to listen to here.
Nepali Course by U. Regmi & S. Dahal, MS Nepal
- A comprehensive 31 lesson course with audio and other supplementary materials (flashcards, posters, etc). A fantastic resource. A follow-up course is available on request.
Colloquial Nepali by G. G. Rogers, 1950
- Grammar based textbook with 60 lessons and translation exercises. Useful 'old-school' resource.
Websites
Nepali Pre-course from the British Army
- A word document and audio with information on pronunciation, grammar, and an extensive phrasebook. Looks useful. BROKEN LINK
- 4 basic Nepali lessons introducing words & phrases with notes on grammar, pronunciation, usage etc.
Cours de Népali Only available in French
- A French site that has different sections on Nepali words & phrases (with images), the alphabet, IPA pronunciation guide, a dictionary (Fr-Ne) and lists of resources for learning Nepali.
Speak the way they do on top of the world 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
- A 5 video introduction to Nepali covering useful phrases, the alphabet, sentence formation, tenses, question forms and more. The videos are very nicely put-together and seem very useful.
- A small multimedia site that introduces the Nepali alphabet with audio.
- Thematically arranged words & phrases written in transciption.
- Nepali phrases, vocabulary lists and other info. Site is a bit difficult to navigate unfortunately.
- Lists the most useful words and phrases in Nepali.
- A list of survival words & phrases in romanisation.
- Comparative charts of Asian scripts.
E-books
Peace Corps Nepali Supplements 1962
- Quite poor quality scans but the glossary, technical glossary and sections on numbers may be useful. Uses script & transliteration.
Peace Corps Lessons in Nepali by T. Roberts & G. Arrowsmith, 1966
- Can be difficult to read at times and uses transliteration but includes a lot of content.
ネパール語研修テキスト (Nepali Language Training Textbook) by H. Ishii, 1980 (no. A114-116)
ネパール語研修テキスト (Nepali Language Training Textbook) by H. Ishii, 1992 (no. A214-216)
- Complimentary copies of these two Nepali textbooks are sometimes available from the University of Tokyo if you e-mail them.
Podcasts
World Nomads - Traveller's Language Guide
- 1 episode teaching travel phrases to get by in Nepal. Includes a romanised transcript.
Forums
- A small forum for Nepali learners with some useful content.
- Small but active forum with some useful threads for Nepali.
Authentic Materials
- Biographies of prominent Nepali authors and audio readings.
- News and radio in Nepali.
- Radio and podcasts about culture, news, science, entertainment; lots of interesting material.
Technical
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
- Two searchable Nepali-English dictionaries.
- Downloadable and online searchable two-way romanized Nepali dictionary.
- A comprehensive guide to Nepali fonts available and how to type Nepali on the computer.
- Several downloads for Nepali unicode fonts. Information on installation here and how to type Nepali here.
- Different styles of fonts available to download. Here's an image of the keyboard layout of devanagari.
- A Firefox & Windows download for typing in Nepali. Simple & easy to use
- Online tool for typing phonetically in Nepali.