Teaching centres
Teaching centres
Australia
School of Humanities, Division of Asian Languages, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia. Phone (03) 479 1315. Email Prof David Bradley on lindb@lure.latrobe.edu.au
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China
Department of Burmese Language and Culture, Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures, Beijing University, Beijing, China
Department of Asian and African Languages, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
Department of South East Asian Languages, Yunnan Minorities Institute, Kunming, China. See www.ynni.edu.cn/south-lg/C_DNY.htm for more details (in Chinese). The department has two lecturers and two assistant lecturers for Burmese.
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Czech Republic
Orientální Ustav CSSR, Lázenská 4, Malá Strana, Praha, Czech Republic
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France
Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales - INALCO (known as LanguesO'), 2 Rue de Lille, 75343, Paris, France. Phone +33 (1) 49 26 44 20 Fax +33 (1) 49 26 42 57. Courses in Burmese language, literature and linguistics are taught by Mme Marie-HŽl'ne Cardinaud or Mme Yin Yin Myint. See the Inalco website for full details of teaching programmes available: www.inalco.fr//pub/enseignements/langues/ase/birman/index.html
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Germany
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Fakultätsinstitut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Südostasien-Institut, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany. Tel.:+49 30 2093 6635 Fax: +49 30 2093 6666. Contact Dr Uta Gärtner at Uta.Thanthan@t-online.de.
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Japan
Burmese Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, PO Box 15 Minoo, 2734 Aomadani, Minooshi, Osaka-fu 562, Japan. Contact Professor Touru Ouno at ohno@post01.osaka-gaidai.ac.jp.
Department of Indochinese Studies (Burmese), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 4-51-21, 4-Chome, Nishigahara, Kitaku, Tokyo 114, Japan. Phone/fax 0492 44 3716.
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Korea
Pusan University of Foreign Studies, 55-1, Uam-Dong, Nam-Ku, Pusan 608-738, Korea. Tel (051) 640-3125; Fax (051) 645-4525. About 40 students each year in four years. Contact U Mya Hla at umyahla@yahoo.com or visit www.pufs.ac.kr/~myanmar/ (In Korean).
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Myanmar
Some meditation Centres, and some private schools. Consult Yellow Pages directory.
Dept of Myanmar Language, University of Foreign Languages, 119-131 University Avenue, Yangon 11081, Myanmar (Burma). Phone school +95 1 531713.
Mahasi International School for Foreign Buddhist Missions, Mahagandhayon, KabaAye Pagoda Road, n° 55, Mayangon PO, Yangon 11061, Myanmar. Principal U Maung Maung
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Russia
University of St-Petersburg, Oriental Studies Dept. Email Prof Vadim Kasevich on vladimir@orient.lgu.spb.su or Prof Rudolf Yanson on yanson@RY1703.spb.edu.
Institut Vostokovedeniya, Armiyanski Per. 2, Moscow, Russia
Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow K-45, Ulitsa Zhdanova 12, Russia
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Singapore
Burmese is taught at the National University of Singapore Extension by Daw May Than Nwe [e-mail: thannwemay@hotmail.com]. For details go to www.nus.edu.sg/nex. A course entitled Conversational Myanmar began in June 2003 - course details available at www.nus.edu.sg/nex/lllan00151.htm
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Thailand
Naresuan University, Muang District, Pitsanulok 650000, Thailand. Naresuan offers a BA programme in Myanmar Studies (Language and Culture) - visit the programme website at www.myanmar.nu.ac.th (in Thai) or e-mail Mr Wirat Niyomtam: mscp@nu.ac.th.
Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University at Salaya Nakornpathom, 73170 Thailand. Phone 02 441 9327, fax 662 433 7083
Thai Dept, Faculty of Humanities, Chiangmai University 50200, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Fax 053 217148. Ph 66 53 217148. Contact Ms Ubonrat Puntumin.
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UK
Burmese Section, South East Asia Dept, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh St. London WC1H OXG, England. Phone 020 7898 4254, fax 020 7898 4319. E-mail Dr Justin Watkins on jw2@soas.ac.uk.
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USA
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA. Email U Saw Tun on tl0sxt1@corn.cso.niu.edu or visit dml.cornell.edu/learning/languages/burmese.
Cornell University, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Morill Hall, Ithaca, NY, USA. Email San San Hnin Tun on sht3@cornell.edu.
Foreign Languages and Literatures, Room 14N-324, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Email Dr J K Wheatley at wheatley@mit.edu.
Dept of Indo-Pacific Studies, Spalding Hall 459, 2540 Maile Way, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 USA
Foreign Service Institute, National Foreign Affairs Training Center, 4000 Arlington Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22204, USA
SEASSI (The South East Asian Studies Summer Institute). This is an intensive nine-week course held every summer in the USA. It gives you a concentrated dose of language learning 4 hours of classwork a day, five days a week, and plenty of homework. SEASSI moves to a different university host every five years. from 2000-2004 SEASSI will be hosted at the University of Wisconsin at Madison - see http://seassi.wisc.edu/ or contact Mary Jo Studenberg, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 207 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Tel: (608) 263-1755, fax: (608) 263-3735, email: mjstuden@facstaff.wisc.edu.
