Hey. We are supposed to have summer and heat here right now. But in reality it is cold and rainy every day. Got my heater out again today. Hope we don't get 4month if monsoon now. But at least I can use my knitwear. I also love books about places i have been to. Gives a special feeling. Yes south Africa is beautiful. Have a great day
I have difficulty understanding some pronunciation. It would be nice to have "ka for cat or cold," "kha for Khyber" etc examples. Otherwise everyone seems to be pronouncing differently. Is the third letter, after kha, kha or ga? Some books say it is also kha (low tone), which become ga when with another letter (lango, rango, sango) ... Same with ta-varga, pa-varga...
It would be beneficial to learn ipa. These are the international symbols. There are websites that give examples of the sounds and RU-vid videos that show you how to make them. The great thing is, once you learn what symbol sounds what, if you encounter it in another language you’re learning, you’ll already know it :D
@@celty5858 Thanks. I did check out IPA notations when I began learning. Many books on Beginning Tibetan use IPA. But that is where I see/hear the variance - between what the IPA pronunciation is supposed to be and what I hear in videos or online classes. I am planning to take in-person classes next so I can ask and clarify right there! 😀
@@heyou8006 True - but so many other languages do not either. That is why there are diacritics, accents etc. Most good books in Sanskrit transliteration will give you a diacritics/pronunciation guide right at the beginning. There is no त/ta in English (not 't'/ṭ), say. But there are ways to simulate/mimic that sound - 'thin', for example has an equivalence etc. 😃
