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Hello, Speakeasy,
Thank you very much for the very informative post.

Speakeasy wrote: Course in Nepali (1992, revised 1998, reprinted 2013 as a Kindle edition) 356 pages, by David Matthews - South Asia Books ...It is not clear to me whether or not audio recordings were prepared to accompany this course.
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I just wanted to make two brief comments regarding "A Course in Nepali". The book mentions five cassettes but I have not been able to find them. Also, the book is still in print.
https://www.routledge.com/Course-in-Nep ... 0700710706

aravinda wrote:...regarding "A Course in Nepali". The book mentions five cassettes but I have not been able to find them. Also, the book is still in print.

Thank you very much, aravinda! I have corrected the entry.

Nepali learning books and readers are even more difficult to find than Bengali books.
Which is weird since Nepal is a major tourist destination (unlike West Bengal or Bangladesh).

tussentaal wrote:Nepali learning books and readers are even more difficult to find than Bengali books….

As a matter of general practice, I do not want to assume the responsibility of even attempting to maintain lists of grammars, dictionaries, readers, phrase books, language guides, television and radio stations, podcast, videos, films, books, newspapers, and online sources for the study of foreign languages. The fundamental reasons are that (a) there are so many of these types of ancillary materials available that taking on such a challenge would require abilities which I do not possess, not to mention the expenditure of a considerable amount of time and effort, and (b) I assume that anyone consulting the lists of resources that I have posted to this forum has at least as much, and probably far greater, abilities and time necessary to chasing down such materials.

Other members all always free to open a new section to one of a list of resources, covering readers or any other sub-set of materials, and to maintain it themselves. Nevertheless, tussentaal, given the difficulties that you have expressed in locating Nepali readers, I have added a section to the list above, entitled Nepali Resources: Readers. If you wish to assume the responsibility of keeping it up-to-date, you can always copy/paste its contents into a comment somewhere below and use the edit mode to update it at your will. Ciao, for now! Speakeasy.

The audio to the Cornell University book "Nepali: A Beginner's Primer Conversation and Grammar" can, at least currently, be downloaded here:

https://travelandcommunication.com/nepa ... 0Audio.rar

Daristani, great detective work! Thank you very much for the link, I have updated the entry for this course.

Speakeasy wrote: U.S. Army Special Forces 200-Hour Nepali Familiarization Courses
The U.S. Special Forces 200-Hour Familiarization Language Courses cover the basic communication needs of someone who will be living in a region where the target language predominates. Although these courses were designed for the language instruction of members of the U.S. Special Forces, as illustrated by the Lesson Titles, the focus is on daily life in a non-military setting. The approach to teaching in the course manuals is quite conventional. Nevertheless, the materials have been prepared with great care, they include sufficient examples and exercises as well as an Answer Key and they could very easily serve in an independent-learning context. An additional point in favour of these courses is that they cover a broad range of less-frequently-studied languages for which substantial materials are often difficult to find. A CEFR A1 level is likely possible with these materials.
http://www.jblmflc.com/

I had trouble finding the above mentioned Nepali course from the main website link. Via Google though it turned up. For others wanting to reference the JBLM Language and Culture Center's Nepali Familiarization Course, the direct link is:
http://jblmflc.com/Nepalese/Nepali%20SF ... /index.htm

It does look like a decent course and includes audio. Good find Speakeasy!

Pinecone wrote: I had trouble finding the above mentioned Nepali course from the main website link. Via Google though it turned up. For others wanting to reference the JBLM Language and Culture Center's Nepali Familiarization Course, the direct link is: http://jblmflc.com/Nepalese/Nepali%20SF ... /index.htm
It does look like a decent course and includes audio. Good find Speakeasy!

Thank you very much, I have inserted the link that you provided in the list above. As to the "good find", as so often happens on this forum, it was very much a collaborative effort.

Just me butting in again:

The various military "familiarization" courses originally had PDFs that sometimes showed up at various places online, although the above website (http://jblmflc.com/) doesn't seem to provide them.

The full 322-page PDF of the Nepalese Familiarization Course, however, can be downloaded here:

https://travelandcommunication.com/nepa ... Course.pdf