Ressources for learning mongolian

[rmontelatici]

Hi all,

A friend of mine is planning a trip to mongolia (republic of) next summer and wants to learn some of the language before going there.

He has a hard time finding decent textbooks or online courses.

Could you recommend some ? He is so desperate to find anything that could fit his goals that materials in any language will do (english-based courses would be great though).

Thanks,

Raphael

[skylee]

Would this do? -> http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/product_detail.cfm?productID=22

(but this may not be decent enough ... )

[rmontelatici]

Thanks Skylee,

The LP phrasebook is a good start but he is looking for more comprehensive courses (with dialogues, grammar notes and the like).

Audio ressources would also help a lot !

[rmontelatici]

I found this survival kit http://www.qingis.com/monggolhel.htm, far from comprehensive, yet it includes audio recordings.

The pieces of dialogues are written using the mongolian alphabet (the one of inner mongolia I think), not cyrillic, and there are chinese translations.

BTW, I need help on some of these chinese sentences:

(sentence 3) what does 没关系 means ? (a familiar one, but I can't figure out what is exactly means!)

(sentence 90) 你妈妈对我的印象好吗? This one is pure mystery to me.

Thanks,

Raphael

[yan]

sentence 3 is 'thanks'(bayarlalaa and talarhlaa)/'no problem'(hamaagui), sentence 90 is 'what impression did i make on your mother?', although the word order seems a bit strange to my Outer Mongolian girlfriend.

http://tbg.torama.ru uses cyrillic letters, and the dialogues are in khalkha dialect.

[rmontelatici]

Useful link indeed!

Thanks for your help