I started watching part 1 which is a little blurry because it is not HD. The man teaching is wearing Tibetan Monk's robes. The building they are in likely is in the U.S. maybe in New Jersey because he is talking about New Jersey at one point and talking having gone to Princeton University. He also talks about going on business in the past to Brazil.
Anyway, you can see he is loving teaching this class on Tibetan and is very knowledgeable and engaging as a teacher. So, if your eyes don't go fuzzy watching this you still might get a lot of good out of it if you want to learn to speak, read and write Tibetan.
Tibetan is based upon Sanskrit. He was mentioning the most hodge podge language on earth is English. The reason it is this way is it is a trader's language where Nordic peoples and French and German peoples met in England and traded goods together. This is actually how English became what it is today. So, you find English words, French words, German words, Nordic people's words and likely even Gaelic words from native speakers in various parts of England. It is a very hodge podge language developed for doing business especially.
This is why English is one of the best if not the best language for doing business in today here on earth.
Last night I found my Tibetan English Dictionary that I likely bought in either Nepal or India in 1985 or 1986 when I was in India, Nepal and Thailand for 4 months with my family then. I had intended to learn Tibetan then but raising my family through college is what I did instead and supporting them financially for my then 3 children. I have had 2 more children since then. So I have 2 stepkids, 3 biological children and two god Daughters that we watch over. And I now have a Grandson as well.
But, I realized last night learning another language will keep my brain active because I'm now 68 years old and learning a new language will stimulate your brain and make it more adaptive into old age.
I had thought about learning Spanish beyond the little bit I know already. I speak good French but cannot understand it when people talk fast so that is a problem for me if I go to Paris, for example, or Nice.
But, Tibetan would allow me to also learn Sanskrit so I could read and translate directly many sacred writings in both Tibetan and Sanskrit and also a friend of mine has a Master's degree form UCLA in History specializing in Buddhism and Sanskrit, so he speaks and writes Sanskrit as well.
I believe Sanskrit is the root language for Hindi, Tibetan, Russian and others which I also find interesting in studying Tibetan on my way to Sanskrit.
My Tibetan Dictionary is the Compact edition so it is small in size like a paperback but is very thick with 1353 pages;
It says on the cover: "Chandra Das, TIBETAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY" Compact Edition
Inside it says First Reprint 1983 reprinted from the First edition, Calcutta 1902 by
Gauray Publishing House, 695, Model Town,Jalandhar 144003 and printed at Ram Printograph
(India) New Delhi 110020
Here are other Tibetan Dictionaries I found online:
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