Burmese Learners' Quandaries

Описание: LIVE DISCUSSION and Q&A

August 13, 2020: 8AM Pacific / 11AM Eastern
4PM London / 9:30PM Yangon

Should you learn Burmese script from the start?
How can you make your Burmese polite or casual to suit the context?
What aspects of learning Burmese do learners need most help with?
What resources are available to support learning Burmese?

We’ll share our thoughts on these and more. We’ll also share our memories and thoughts of the wonderful Hsaya John Okell who passed away last week, to whom so many Burmese learners and teachers owe so much. Please join us here:

Submit your questions in advance below as comments. We’ll address as many of them as possible.

Kenneth Wong teaches beginning and intermediate Burmese at UC Berkeley. He is the author of Survival Burmese and Easy Burmese, both from Tuttle Publishing. His short stories, articles, and Burmese translations have appeared in Mekong Review, AGNI, San Francisco Chronicles, Irrawaddy,and Myanmar Times, among others.

Justin Watkins is Professor of Burmese and Linguistics at SOAS, University of London, where he teaches a range of courses in Burmese and Linguistics. His research interests include the phonetics and linguistics of Burmese and other South-East Asian languages, including minority languages of Myanmar. He published a Wa-Burmese-Chinese-English Dictionary in 2013 and is currently preparing a reference book on Burmese grammar for learners.