Mongolian Language Educational Software -?-

Factual Questions
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      • I want to learn how to speak Mongolian. I have found a couple books on the subject, but the pronunciation is a beach and if it’s available, I find I do better with software than with books/tapes. ~ I have found fonts, various keyboard/word-processor utilities and Mongolian-to-English software, but none that teaches an English-speaking person Mongolian.
        -And I mean zero, nuthin.
        Anybody know anywhere that has (or might have) anything? - MC
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Try some university bookstores with big Asian language programs. Harvard, Yale, UCLA, and (the immersian school in Vermont whose name I can’t recall offhand).

Second, try one of the big Chinese bookstores in NY or SF or other big cities if that’s practical. The Xinhua Bookstore. They may have something. I’ll try to remember to check next time i go to one here in Shanghai and see if they’ve got tapes for Mongolian.

Finally, you might contact the Mongolian embassy.

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Or you might try google: mongolian language tapes. Kicked back quite a few sites including:

The Mongolia Society (I think affiliated with Indiana University) also offers Prof. J.G. Hangin’s Basic Course in Mongolian as well as the supplementary tapes, available at a fraction of the cost of commercial tapes, which are copies of this series. email: monsoc@indiana.edu

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There are at least a couple of schools in Vermont with immersion training. Are you thinking of the School for International Training?

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Start your learning at http://www.travlang.com and click on “Foreign Languages for Travelers.” Great stuff.

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Thanks, it came to me. I was thinking Middlebury

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I guess this begs the question . . . not that I’m questioning it, but why would you want to learn such an obscure language? Are you moving there? :slight_smile: Just curious . .

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Why? Perhaps the proper answer to that query is: Why not?

Or it could be the OP is interested in the language attached to such a beautiful script. And there is some very interesting history regarding Mongolia.