 Good afternoon. My name is Therapy. I'm a teacher of Burmese. Burmese is the language spoken mostly, if not exclusively in Burma. It is the largest member of Tibet to Burma and firmly of over 250 languages. Nearly 70% of the population in Burma speak Burmese as the first language, but other ethnic minorities such as Kechin, Karen, Shen, Mo, Rakhine and others speak it as their second language. The official name of the language is Myanmar, but Burmese is more commonly used, also as a protest to the current military regime, which changed the name in 1989. Locals however use Bermaza when they refer to the language. Burmese has two forms, formal and colloquial. The formal style is mostly used in official publications, media and other formal locations such as weddings. But informal or colloquial style is used in everyday conversation. Usually particles and sentence endings mark the difference between these two forms. And like western languages, Burmese is tonal and verbs are usually found at the end of the sentence. It has four tones, namely creaky, low, high and stopped tone. For example, la, la, la and le. The first la is the moon, la is to come, la is the donkey and the stop tone, le, is the hand. Burmese has its own script consisting of 33 letters, which you can see here. It also has 14 vowels and 9 special symbols. Since Burmese does not have standardized Roman transliteration, it is worth the trouble to learn the script if you want to understand and pronounce the language better. Here is an example of how the word Burmese is written. Let's learn how to speak some Burmese. How are you? Yes, I'm fine. What is your name? My name is Nicola. What are you doing now? Now I'm learning Burmese. What is this shop? This is a fruit shop. What is this fruit? This is a banana. How about this one? That's all for now. Namaste.