Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-François Colson" <bn130627@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-François Colson" <bn130627@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:47 AM
> Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
>
>
> > If you're interested, there's a free online Sanskrit course there:
> > http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/sanskrit/lessons/Devan/intro.html.
>
> Err... That's rather a course about the Devanagari script. Nothing seems
> available there about Sanskrit grammar and vocabulary.
Ouf ti! The address for the more complete course was not really easy to
find. It is http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/sanskrit/tutor.html.


>
> >
> > Jean-François Colson
> > jfcolson (a) belgacom.net
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stephen Mulraney" <ataltanie@...>
> > To: <CONLANG@...>
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
> >
> >
> > > J Y S Czhang wrote:
> > > > In a message dated 2003:08:08 04:20:48 AM,
Indiadivine@indiadivine.org
> > writes:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>Learn Sanskrit for Beginners: Simple and clear lessons for learning
> > > >>sanskrit, beginning from the very basics of writing and
pronunciation,
> > > >>up to complex grammar and comprehension. The complete CD for
learning
> > > >>sanskrit, for just $7.95.
> > > >>
> > > >>http://www.matchless-gifts.com/learnsanskrit.htm
> > >
> > >  From what I've seen, the TY Sanskrit pictured on that page is a
pretty
> > good
> > > text. My exposure to it is limited to glancing through in shops at
> various
> > > stages of my life and finding something interesting, like a brief
> > disquisition
> > > on PIE/Sanskrit "vowel grades" and whatnot. It looks good'n'nerdy.
> > >
> > > Of course, even if this is a CD version of that book, it may be no
good.
> > > But it if has recordings of the text, then that in itself is quite an
> > advantage,
> > > no? (hey, never mind that no-one ever speaks Sanskirt. What's that got
> to
> > do
> > > with anything, eh?)
> > >
> > > s.
> > >
> > > ----
> > > Stephen Mulraney... ataltane at ataltane.net... ataltane.net
> > > If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because
> > > he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he
hears,
> > > however measured or far away.                     ~Henry David Thoreau
> > >
> >
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