Shar

Tuesday was out first 'official' school day, and our wonderful new Tibetan teacher introduced us to the Tibetan alphabet. The Tibetan alphabet consists of 30 letters half, of which, are pronounced "shar". So today's lesson mainly consisted of the following:

Teacher: Shar
Student: Shar
Teacher: No, 'shar'
Student: Shar
Teacher: No, not 'shar', 'shar'
Student: Shar
Teacher: No, look at my mouth, 'shar'
Student: Shar
Teacher: No, you're still saying 'shar', I want you to say 'shar'
Student: Shar
Teacher: Can anyone else say shar
Another student: Shar
Teacher: Exactly, now say shar again
Student: Shar
Teacher: No, you said 'shar', I want you to say 'shar'
Student: Shar
Teacher: Can anyone explain how to say shar?
Another student: Imagine you're lifting a 35kg suitcase whilst balancing a par-boiled new potato on your tongue
Student: Shar
Teacher: Exactly! Now say 'char'
Student: Char
Teacher: No, not 'char', 'char'

And so on and so forth...