So far the best explanation in RU-vid I've found so far! Thank you! Especially appreciate the extra explanations comparing with Sanskrit and Spanish(I'm a Spanish speaker btw 😁) Great work! Gracias
Thank you so much for all the videos. The explanations and pronunciation are crystal clear, and I really appreciate the extra emphasis on the most common mistakes we may commit. If I may ask, could you please upload the two first videos of the series?
I was pleased to find this video series. At this particular lesson it would had been helpfull to discuss also about the pronunciation of one particular ར་བཏགས, namely ཧྲ. Quite often I heard someting like "hra", the r is cleary pronunced and I am not too convinced if this is right or not. Otherwise great course, congratulations.
Geshe, hope that you still read comments :) I wanted to ask why Yeti གཡའ་དྲེད GYA DRED is pronounced something like Ya Che ? I mean it is like that retroflex t but with a sha sound at the end like in Chinese Pinyin x=shi. Thanks in advance. If this is something like a rule (consonant clusters which are pronounced differently if they are combined) could you make a video on it.. And what about གྲགས and གྲོགས ... i heard they are pronouced ro and tha making no sense to me. Shouldnt they be retroflex t and ak ok (trak trok)? Do you know a good book on this topic? Again thanks for your great work!
As a beginner - and an Indic language speaker - the difference between the spelling/transliteration and the pronunciation just drives me nuts. In Devanāgari, त (ta), थ (tha), ट (ṭa - t underdot), ठ (ṭha), ढ etc are distinct sounds. But Tibetan does not seem to use diacritics in its transliteration and so I find it very hard to make out from many teachers if they mean a ta or a tha or a ṭa or a ṭha, esp in zoom classes!! Similarly for ca, and cha, and pa and pha. Everything seems to be homogenized into a pha or a ba, in my hearing! So many people, including native speakers pronounce the third letter in the first row as "ga" whereas phonetically it is a low-toned 'kha', I think. Why??? I have tried consulting IPA guides but that is another effort...sigh. Geshe Michael is one of the better ones with his pronunciation - mad respect for him for his clarity in the sounds. He is a life-saver! The ra-tas esp with ka etc are killers, almost non-intuitive, unless of course you see the shifts happening to other rows ('ka' to 'ta' etc)... In Sanskrit the change of letters is typically in the same row, esp as nasals etc. But radical jumps from Row1 to Row3, say...phew!
In this video, it is missing the 3 sub joined letters with ྲ, པྲ་ ཕྲ་ བྲ་ from the the 4th row. There are 11 letters in total that go with "Ra Tagags" ( ྲ ) . I love the way how Michael teaches.
