Dear Evertt and Nina,

I'm not a paali scholar but this seems to me somewhat like a crossword
puzzle--a total dead end, but when you come back to it--eureka.

mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Everett Thiele <rett@...>
To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Pali] Re: introduction to pali


> >Dear June,
> >op 30-08-2003 11:14 schreef june_tg op june_tg@...:
> >>
> >> i guess pali is so hard that i do have questions but i don't know how
> >> to ask them. i went through chapters 1-5 okay, but now i am stuck...i
> >> guess this book is too hard for me, so i have gone to another textbook
> >> and i will come back to this again later.
> >N: John Kelly will soon be back and he gives exercises of Warder and
clues,
> >I think, about ch 6 now. Do not give up so soon. You could read it
through
> >and then you start reading Ch 18. Then you can return all the time to the
> >grammar. I keep on handling it, always have to return again to the
> >beginning. We need to learn in the context.
>
> I agree with Nina here, and I'd like to add that many times I've hit
> a spot where it seems impossible to go on. This seems like part of
> the learning pattern; sometimes it feels easy, and other times the
> problems seem insurmountable. I guess the best thing to do when it
> appears too difficult is just to take a break and come back to it
> later.