--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ananda Assaji <english1527@...> wrote:

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> To whom it may concern,
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> I have read the Long discourses, Middle Length Discourses,

Connected Discourses, and Numerical Discourses in English and Pali. I
have had like very limited formal type study of Pali, until now, and
I am thinking about taking a course in Pali, possibly online. I would
appreciate your sharing information with regards to this that would
benefit me.

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> Sincerely,
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> English1527

Bhikkhu Bodhi's course, which I started, is excellent, and everything
except the textbook is available online:

http://www.bodhimonastery.net/courses/Pali/course_Pali.html

It uses Gair's "A New Course in Reading Pali" which gets you right
into the texts.

It seems with the amount of material you have read (wow!) you
wouldn't have a problem jumping into this course. I actually found
it a bit overwhelming so I am working on DeSilva's Pali Primer right
now:

http://www.vri.dhamma.org/publications/pali/primer/

which is a much more gradual introduction to the grammar - one case
at a time. The Gair book throws heaps of grammar at you at once
along side the texts. I am thinking that grammar and not vocabulary
will be your biggest challenge, having read as much as you did.

I looked around for any kind of distance learning courses for Pali
but was not able to find them. I looked and looked and looked. I
think the approach I am taking now works best for me.

-DaveK