Hi John,

>2. Are you learning/teaching the Pali language?
>Yes - I am a recent student of Pali, beginning self-study in March of this
>year. I have now worked my way through the first 14 chapters of de Silva's
>Pali Primer. I would recommen this book as a starting point for those just
>beginning, and also agree that Gair's "A New Course in Reading Pali" is an
>excellent book too. However, the down side for someone very new to the
>language is that each chapter introduces SO much material, it can seem
>intimidating at first. De Silva starts of very gently - just one case of
>one declension per chapter for the first 8 chapters. It also has an answer
>key available from Pariyatti books, which is very helpful. The downside
>with de Silva is that explanations start to get pretty thin as the chapters
>progress. I think Gair can be better appreciated after at least getting
>through half of de Silva.

If you dun mind, Evelyn, Eunice, Piya and myself will be joining you on
'Pali Primer' soon.

>Clearly this group has a number of people at different levelts, so I sure
>we can have several tracks of book study.

Yes, I would be glad to tack along.

>I am in the fortunate position of just having found a real, live Pali
>teacher, and we are working through the Pali Primer, so if we have a
>discussion of that book, that gives us a resource that I can bring
>questions to.

Yes, you are indeed a fortunate person. I may be keeping you busy with
questions. :-)

Yong Peng.