National Language in Myanmar

Languages Spoken in Myanmar

The people of Myanmar speak Burmese. The main national and official language of Myanmar is Burmese. Burmese is a Tibeto-Burman language and ranked 34th based on the amount of native speakers of 32 million.
We have created a collection of popular Burmese tourist language phrases or words, which a visitor can use to get by in Myanmar. We strongly suggest you learn them from Burmese words and phrases web site.

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Tips For Understanding Burmese Language

• Conversation and more conversation in Burmese - The trick to master Burmese is hours and hours of conversation with people who talks Burmese far better than you. An hour or so of conversation (with corrections and Burmese dictionary for reference) is as effective as five hours in a Burmese educational setting and 10 hours with a Burmese language training course by yourself.
• Studying Burmese language for three or four hours each day for two weeks is much more effective for mastering Burmese than learning one hour each day for three months. It is no surprise that many Burmese learners taking language classes in class and never remember it in the long run. The secret to master the Burmese is intensity of of study.
• Start off with the 100 most commonly used Burmese words and phrases and attempt to make sentences using them. Learn just enough Burmese grammar to be able to accomplish this as well as do it till you feel pretty at ease with all of them.
• Continue learning these sentence in your head. The other use for your dictionary is you can practice these sentences in Burmese whilst going about your day and not speaking to any one.
• Carry a pocket Burmese dictionary or an English-Burmese dictionary app on your smartphone.
• Work out the Burmese pronunciation patterns.
• Start using Burmese audio and online courses for the first 100 words and phrases and basic grammar in Burmese language.
• Following the first 100 phrases in Burmese, give attention to becoming conversational. Studies have shown that the most common 100 words in Burmese language account for 50% of all the spoken communication. The most everyday 1,000 words account for 80% of all spoken communication.
• “How do you say X?” in Burmese is the most important sentence you can possibly learn. Study it early and then use it often.

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What do I need to learn Burmese language?

• Burmese language courses are available as traditional language classes, audio tutorials and online courses. The traditional Burmese courses are made up of dialogue textbooks, explanation of Burmese grammer and exercises. Regularly they come either in CDs or MP3s.
  Most of these courses are designed for complete newbies or people with only very little knowledge of the Burmese language.

  One of the leading vendors these Burmese language courses is Linguaphone who also have courses for more than One hundred languages and consist of all audio courses, explorer courses for people who just want to understand the basics, and in-depth courses for more serious students.

  The other company of language courses is Teach Yourself and Colloquial courses and they offer a wide variety of languages.

• Burmese Audio Courses is generally made of CDs or MP3s with limited printed content. All dialogues, exercises, instructions and explanations of %%are recorded and the focus of these courses is teaching you to comprehend and speak the language.
• Pimsleur language courses offers you genuine pronunciation in Burmese and a achievable level of vocabulary.
• Computer Based Language Learning are available on CD-ROMs and DVDs. Each of these courses generally consist of dialogues, audio, exercises and tests in Burmese.
  Teach Me! and Transparent Language present you with a wide range of language courses on CDs and MP3s with vocabularly and grammar exercises.

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