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This page includes links to the texts and audio recordings from Tournadre & Dorje’s Manual of Standard Tibetan (MST). The material is designed for beginners, and it gradually increases in difficulty as you progress through the lessons. The texts are mostly dialogues, but a few of them are short paragraphs on Tibetan culture.

The electronic text of the MST is hosted on the Internet Archive. To view the full book you’ll need to create a free Internet Archive account and borrow it for an hour. Each lesson includes one or more Tibetan texts (either dialogues or paragraphs), each one with an accompanying English translation and audio recording.

There are three kinds of audio recordings listed on this page:

audio is recorded at a normal pace.
- all lessons have audio
slow audio is recorded at a slower pace.
- lessons 1-19 also have slow audio
alternate audio is recorded at a normal pace, but by a third party
- lessons 1-7, 9-20, 26, 32, 36, and 38 also have at least one alternate audio available on the UVA site (date of access: April 2, 2023).

Click on a lesson below to jump to it:

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Lesson 7

Lesson 8

Lesson 9

Lesson 10

Lesson 11

Lesson 12

Lesson 13

Lesson 14

Lesson 15

Lesson 16

Lesson 17

Lesson 18

Lesson 19

Lesson 20

Lesson 21

Lesson 22

Lesson 23

Lesson 24

Lesson 25

Lesson 26

Lesson 27

Lesson 28

Lesson 29

Lesson 30

Lesson 31

Lesson 32

Lesson 33

Lesson 34

Lesson 35

Lesson 36

Lesson 37

Lesson 38

Lesson 39

Lesson 40

Lesson 41