I have studied several languages and most foreign language
textbooks I have seen contain things that make the material
more enjoyable (and therefore easier to remember): cartoons,
puzzles, rhymes and proverbs, or at
least some text about the culture and history associated with the
language. I recently received my first book about Pali, de Silva's
Pali Primer, and was shocked to see that it is just wordlists
followed by sentence construction drills. It is a lifeless desert.
Can anyone recommend a more lively textbook?