Reddit mentions of Basic Course in Spoken Nepali

http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Course-Spoken-Nepali-Karki/dp/B000JQ17ZW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323922545&sr=1-1

This is the book I used to learn Nepali. It was previously used to teach peace corp volunteers. My professor and I joked it should be called basic course in broken Nepali. Only a joke, but it does a good job of teaching what is useful in daily situations. This book does not require the knowledge or the necessity to learn the script. The whole book uses the roman alphabet, a big help when you want to focus on conversational Nepali. Highly recommend this book. You can easily pick this up at any Thamel book shop (I know its at pilgrims book house) for much less than on Amazon.