Practice Tibetan with interactive games and spaced repetition. Features include flashcards, listening exercises, and a Glossika-style passive learning mode. Track your progress and learn at your own pace.
If you are looking to build a good foundation or sharpen your listening skills, check out our Anki Decks with native audio recordings:
If you are looking to build a good foundation, have a look at the 1000 Words Anki Deck: it covers your first 1000 words, with images and native audio.
Learn your first 1000 words with example sentences. Each word comes with context to help you understand how it's used in real conversations.
If you have a good knowledge of Tibetan already but struggle finding materials to sharpen your listening skills, check out the 2200+ Sentences Anki Deck. All the audios were recorded by a native speaker to help you train your ear.
These are MP3 files you can listen to on the go. Each file plays an English word or sentence, followed by the Tibetan audio recorded by a native speaker. You hear the English, you have a brief moment to recall the Tibetan, and then you hear it. The files are grouped in batches of 50, following the same order as the Anki decks, so each new batch naturally reviews what came before as the vocabulary builds on itself. It was originally designed for commutes and walks, but it works anywhere you can put your headphones on and let your brain do the work.
Audio files are available on each deck page below.
If you can't concentrate on a grammar book, check out Grammar Bits: each rule is summarized and made explicit with colors.
Hi ! I'm Laurane Boulenger, I'm French, and I've been studying colloquial Tibetan for two years now.
I started learning Tibetan for a strange reason: during one long train ride I read Alexandra David Néel's book about her journey from China to Tibet in the 1920s and there were Tibetan characters in it. I loved the atmosphere of the book and thought the characters were beautiful, so I began searching for a professor.
I've learnt my very first words with my wonderful teacher, Tashi, and I've since visited him in northern India (Dharamsala) to study more. He is the one you can hear in all the Decks: he speaks so clearly and nicely, I thought everybody will enjoy his voice. I'm really grateful for his patience and his most encouraging way of teaching, and I admire his talent for mimicking any possible word!
Not many people are interested in learning Tibetan, so resources are relatively scarce. I noticed a particular lack of listening materials, which is why I decided to create these decks and compile all those sentences. I hope it can be helpful to some of you 🙂
I wish you good luck on your journey of learning and I hope one day we can have casual conversations with Tibetans while drinking tea, without having a headache!