Sign up for a beginning spoken Tibetan language course with a qualified instructor in your geographic area. Learn the differences between honorific and colloquial Tibetan, U-Chen script and grammar in an introductory course. Practice Tibetan vocabulary with other students so that you comprehend workaday transactions and situations.
Study books and CD-ROMs that provide Tibetan language instruction. For example, in "Learn Practical Tibetan," you can explore chapters dedicated to familiar themes, such as greetings, shopping, transportation and accommodation. Study the four different ways that the text presents a sentence, which includes an English translation, English written in Tibetan word order, a Romanized version of Tibetan sounds and Tibetan script. Listen to Tibetan speakers in 90-minute tapes provided with the book. Engage with Tibetan language interactive games, quizzes and stories in Eurotalk's "Talk Now! Tibetan" CD-ROM.
Join an online language exchange. Search for language exchange partners or people who speak Tibetan and want to learn your native language. Contact them via Skype or email. Engage in live chats via Skype. Leverage the video capability so that you can see the expressions and body language of a native Tibetan speaker during a conversation.
Download a free digitized English-Tibetan dictionary from the Freelang website so that you can look up Tibetan vocabulary words. Add or alter entries to this dictionary and create your own vocabulary lists to study.