At 16:04 15.12.2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thats really nice. I wish I could do that.
>
>June

You can. Just start reading, and although you will probably be a slow
reader in the beginning, you will soon see that you get accustomed to the
script.

Best regards,
Kåre

>--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Kåre A. Lie" <alberlie@...> wrote:
> >
> > At 03:53 15.12.2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >Pali is so hard. It's been a year I think I am still at practically the
>same
> > >place I started out with :p
> > >
> > >Does anyone know of a course you can take in Thailand? I'd prefer
>Pali
> > >in roman characters but if there's no choice i'll have to think again
>about
> > >trying a course with the Thai scripts. Its just for some reason its so
> > >much harder to understand pali with the Thai scripts. i can't even
> > >recognize by scanning the text, words like "tathagato" in the Thai
>script.
> >
> > Once you start reading the Thai script, you will very soon get used to
>it.
> >
> > Back in the eighties, before the Internet and CD roms, I bought the
>full
> > Tipitaka and several commentaries in Bangkok, in Thai script. These
> > editions were far less expensive than the PTS editions.
> >
> > And now I really think I prefer to read Pali in Thai script. The Thai
> > writing has a very special beauty of its own.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Kåre A. Lie
> > http://www.lienet.no/
>
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