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1. Translating Buddhism from Tibetan: An Introduction to the Tibetan Literary Language and the Translation of Buddhist Texts from Tibetan
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I have not been able to find any that are free, exclusively online and extensive.
Ranjung Yeshe Institute has a good "starter" section (3 Full courses) on Tibetan, online.
Esukhia has an extensive collection of online courses, they say, but I think they are of the Skype variety, which is probably a good thing. They also have resident immersion courses in which you live in a Tibetan family's home for 3 months+.
Memrise has a good starter course, which has better pronunciation that most other memrise courses.
The University of Virginia has an immersion summer course in Tibetan. They are also the people who created the Fluent Tibetan book and DVD's course. Not cheap but probably worth it for the serious student of Tibetan.
If you're REALLY, REALLY serious about learning Tibetan, you might be interested in the FPMT Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo Translator Program, " The program consists of two years of classroom study in Dharamsala, India followed by two years of training at an FPMT center as an interpreter for a geshe." Not sure when the next course starts.
I think the best way to learn any language is in an immersion atmosphere if you have the time and can afford it. There probably just isn't anything better than being surrounded by the language and the culture. Good Luck!
If you're a US English speaker, the THDL simple phonetic Tibetan transcription is decent as a rough guide.
Nicolas Tournadre's book (he's one of the co-designers of this phonetic system) is probably the best Modern Standard Tibetan primer out there as well.
I've used it a bit. I went through Translating Buddhism from Tibetan cover to cover, though, and my personal trick was to do all the exercises, not move on until I feel I've mastered an exercise, and to not really worry much about the vocabulary.
I can get disheartened by a lot of memorization so I just use a dictionary when I don't know a word. As vocab words keep coming up. I eventually know them without peeking.
This may not be the best approach for everyone, but I work mostly with scriptural rather than colloquial Tibetan so instant recall of terms is not as critical for me.