www.ms.dk/nepali

Sharing free Nepali language materials

Welcome to www.ms.dk/nepali - a place for free tools for learning Nepali.

Velkommen til www.ms.dk/nepali - et sted med gratis redskaber til at lære nepali.


For your convenience you can download all material hosted on this portal for off line use (130 MB).

Course materials / kursusmateriale

Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (MS) Nepali course

This course, made from MS Nepal, aims at foreigners who wants to learn daily spoken nepali. It does not require you to learn Devanagari, the Nepali alphabet. It has a special focus on preparing Development Workers to work and live in Nepal.

Please note that only PDF's are available. To get editable .doc files, please see MS license/copyright.

Supplementary text material include: (browse files)

Supplementary audio-visual material include:

Tip: Download MP3 files for your MP3 player or computer, or burn a CD to listen to. Listen and learn while you ride your bike, do the dishes etc.

Nepali: A Beginner's Primer, Conversation and Grammar

By Banu Oja and Shambhu Oja, with editorial assistance from Mark Turin, Cornell University.

This course aims at foreigners who wants to learn daily spoken nepali. Note: It requires you to learn Devanagari, the Nepali alphabet (which requires some devotion).

Download PDF book (225 pages) from here.

Supplementary material:

Sample text / Eksempler på tekst

Example of a contract between a MS Development Worker (DW) and his/hers employers, courtesy of Jacob Nordfalk

As MS is in Nepal to do developing work, we should also try to be a model of the way we would like the things to be, at least in the small.

I think this includes to make written contracts with the staff we employ. Imagine that you yourself didn't have a contract with your employer, and you will understand the point!

This is an example of a contract between a DW and his/hers didi or garden man, using words that both DW and didi/garden man knows.

Browse the files.


Dictionaries / ordbøger

Written dictionaries / skrevne ordbøger




A lot of other dictionaries are listed in the Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library's Nepali section.

Audio-visual dictionaries / lyd- eller videoordbøger

Supplementary audio-visual material include:

Tip: Download MP3 files for your MP3 player or computer, or burn a CD to listen to. Listen and learn while you ride your bike, do the dishes etc.

Devanagari (Nepali script) / Nepalesisk skrift

If you are going to live in Nepal its very important to be able to read at least some Devanagari, e.g. the road signs etc.

Devanagari poster / plakat

This poster is optimized for foreigners learning Nepali, so that only simple words that foreigners should learn anyway.

There are two versions:

Tip: Print both of them out and hang on a wall with 1 meters distance; when you are in doubt what is says on the only-Devanagari poster you can look at the Latin script one. This way you will learn Devanagari really fast.

If you want to modify the poster you can download original document (requires OpenOffice.org).

Devanagari fonts / skrifttyper

Its basically very easy to see Devanagari text; you just have to download and install a font from this page: HTTP://www.nepalhomepage.com/reference/fonts/ .


On Linux: After downloading, right click on the font file and select "Install font".


Devanagari keyboard layouts / tastaturlayout

To write Devanagari text yourself, print out this keyboard layouts and keep aside your computer.

Download here.



See also:

Latin-Devanagari translators:


About the material / om materialet

There very few material for learning Nepali on the Internet.


We at MS Nepal have a lot of high quality Nepali materials (and no commercial reason to keep it for ourselves), so we have decided to give it away for free, under some conditions (see License/ copyright below)

Creative Commons License



Goals

We at MS Nepal would like to:



Contributions from others

Others contributions of materials are welcome, if they fit in. Accepted contributions will on the MS web portal with attributions to the contributor.

License / Licens / Copyright

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.



It is free for you to use as you will, modify and improve, as long as you follow these terms:

All material on this web page, unless stated otherwise, origins from MS Nepal - Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke.

File formats

The files exist in various formats:

Application for getting the original editable files

To enforce the above license we have mainly made PDF versions of documents available. You cat get editable Word documents by writing to Umesh Regmi: umesh@msnepal.org.np or Jacob Nordfalk: jacob.nordfalk@gmail.com.

Please write:





Links / Henvisninger

Some other places on the net for learning Nepali:




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