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
- 1. Nepali Bhasha Sikshya, By Daya R. S hakya, USWCNLC, Portland,Oregon USA
- 2. Dictionary of Spoken Nepali, Earl Mosburg, Boulder, Colorado,USA
- 3. Culture Shock Nepal, Jon Burbank, GAC Publishing Co. Portland,Oregon USA
