Posted by: mahisasur August 4, 2005
Nepali tutor help
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Based on my experience of Teaching nepali on and off to foreigners, i suggest the following: 1. Relax, its your language and you know it well enough. 2. Start with translating simple sentences in three tenses: eg. Ram goes to london - Ram london januhuncha; Ram went to london - Ram london janu bhayo and so on...... (janu may be a slightly irregular verb in teh sense that it changes from janu to gayo whereas khanu (and most verbs) would change to khayo. And see where it leads to. 3. Ask him/her to write a (simple) paragraph in English and then translate it. 4. Encourage to use the more respectful "janu bhayo" instead of gayo for the sake of simplicity and uniformity. SEe what happens after that. Ask them to jot down things and while starting next week, start from where u had left. I think it would be wise to conduct about 1-2 hours of class per week. Again, the above are based on my own experience. I never suggested or looked at any book and never planned any classes beforehand. Goodluck cheers
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