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10 phrases for your first trip to Lhasa
Warm, useful phrases for arrival, tea houses, and the road — plus how to say them.
Ten phrases that will carry you a long way — from your first greeting at the airport to asking the price of a khata scarf in the Barkhor. Read them here, say them out loud a few times, and keep them close for the trip.
Hello / greetings.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
tashi delek.
Thank you very much.
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།
thu-je-chhe.
How are you?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཟུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
khye-rang ku-sug de-po yin-pey?
Do you speak English?
ཁྱེད་རང་གིས་དབྱིན་ཇི་མཁྱེན་གྱི་ཡོད་པས།
khye-rang-gi in-ji khyen-gi yo-pey?
Please show me a good restaurant.
ང་ལ་ཟ་ཁང་ཡག་པོ་གཅིག་སྟོན་རོགས་གནང་།
nga-la za-khang yag-po chig ton-ro nang.
Do you make Tibetan (butter) tea?
བོད་ཇ་བཟོ་གནང་གི་ཡོད་པས།
bo-ja zo nang-gi yo-pey?
How much is this?
འདི་ག་ཚད་རེད།
dhi ga-tshey rey?
I would like to see the temple.
ང་ལྷ་ཁང་དེ་ལྟ་འདོད་འདུག
nga lha-khang dhe ta-dho dhoo.
How old is this monastery?
དགོན་པ་འདི་རྙིང་ལོ་རེད།
gon-pa dhi nying-lo rey?
Safe travels / goodbye (to someone leaving).
ག་ལེ་ཕེབས།
ga-le pheb.
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