Learn Tibetan

One doesn’t need to know the Wylie romanization system to enter Tibetan text. Tibetan letters/syllabary are assigned to the keyboard based on the sound of the letter. The letter M is reserved for stacking letters. See the explanation here:

See how to use the Microsoft Tibetan Keyboard in Windows Vista at
http://www.yalasoo.com/English/docs/yalasoo_en_MStbKb.html

See also the Tibetan character picker at
http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/tibetan/

and the Tibetan page from Penn State at
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/tibetan.html

I’ve been studying Tibetan full time for three months now with my teacher. Now are almost through Tournadre’s Manual of Tibetan and starting to do some outside reading to build up vocabulary. There are some easy Tibetan reading selections at http://www.learntibetan.net/index.htm although you may have to install fonts to see Tibetan on your screen.

Lately I found that my Vista OS computer handles Tibetan very well. Now I can even do Google searches in Tibetan although there is not much out there yet, although that will change fast. It really isn’t hard to type in Tibetan, that is as much as your Tibetan permits! See the note from the Tibetan-Himalayan Digital Library at http://tinyurl.com/2nvard and the note on the blog The Tibetan Portal at http://tibetanportal.com/myownblog/