I’m trying to learn the Nepali language, but I can’t really find any good resources to learn it, or even translate texts properly. Can anyone help?
Namaste!
I’ve also had difficulty finding good Nepali materials or resources. Teach Yourself has an introductory book (Complete Nepali). It’s decent.
The website Memrise has some very limited Nepali resources too.
Also here is an old Peace Corps manual: https://www.livelingua.com/course/peace_corps/nepali_language_course
Good luck! Please share if you find any additional materials
2 Likes
Alright, thanks!
Other than those, I’ve found a few youtube channels, some resources on a website called nepalgo.de, and some other things on ilanguages.org. I also intend to use some books designed for Nepali kids, but I haven’t managed to find any of those yet.
Jw. Org
Awake magazine, for example, esp. Older issues, offers articles on human behaviour/relationships, history, nature or lifestyle.
Unfortunately not as audio.
I use it a lot, because the vocabulary is imho excellent. In my TL (swedish) the audio is great, even different dialects.
Religious messages aside, one of the best language ressources.
Nice, thanks for sharing!
I forgot to mention that you might be to look into programs at Rangyung Yeshe Institute in Nepal (they teach Tibetan and Nepali). I’ve heard great things. They had online Nepali courses during the pandemic but don’t seem to have them anymore. https://ryi.org/programs/degree-programs/summer-intensives/nepali
Also, the Alliance Francaise of Kathmandu has some Nepali courses and good online teaching infrastructure: http://www.alliancefrancaise.org.np/courses/courses/
As a pipe dream it’d be amazing to have Nepali on Lingq, but I’m advocating for Hindi(-)Urdu because it’s the 3rd most spoken language in the world.
1 Like
Another vigorous vote for adding Nepali as soon as possible to LingQ (contingent on lesson and resource construction, I know), as I’m about to spend three years there.
I’m finding that ChatGPT is very helpful in doing translations of authentic news texts, and in devoting specific, formatted attention to identifying idioms/phrases.
For aural comprehension, breaknlinks (breaknlinks dot com / nepali ) (a news aggregator; look for नेपाली in the subject headings) has 5 minutes-or-so video news summaries with a transcript of the audio in Nepali underneath the video. Takes a little poking around, but you can find it. Video speed is somewhat adjustable, but it’s perfect for stopping the presenter, repeating the sentence just spoken, and then continuing on for aural comprehension practice paired up with a visual text. ChatGPT can do the translation quite well, far better than Google Translate.
1 Like