Sample Syllabus: Course # NLCN 573
Beginning Nepali Language and Culture
- Identify and pronounce Nepali words and the basic sentences.
- Differentiate affirmative/ negative/ interrogative statements t o greet and introduce.
- Understand the polite and impolite forms of language, and to ask for needs and wants (ex. food/lodging)
- Deal with numbers and rules of counting
- Introductions to Nepali language, Vowels, Consonants, Words & Sentence structure (SOV)
- Pronouns, numbers and adjectives
- Case marks/ postpositions/ suffixes
- Types of verbs (transitive / intransitive and simple / compound)
- Tenses: past and non-past
- Verb conjugation : regular vs. polite and impolite forms
- Types of sentences: yes, no and question forms.
- Simple and compound sentences
- Important phrases to remember and particles
- Final project: Mono or dialog + analysis of a text
- Introduction to Nepal: historical back ground, unity within diversity
- Political system and life style etc
- Inseparability of Religion and Culture in Nepal
- Places to visit
- Holidays and festivals
- Caste system or a division of labor: How does it work in Nepal?
- Rituals from birth to death
- Special lecture on birthday celebration.
- How to find a life Partner? A system of marriage in Nepalese culture
- Nepali Bhasha Sikshya, By Daya R. S hakya, USWCNLC, Portland,Oregon USA
- Dictionary of Spoken Nepali, Earl Mosburg, Boulder, Colorado,USA
- Culture Shock Nepal, Jon Burbank, GAC Publishing Co. Portland,Oregon USA
