Aids to Pali Conversation can be found by searching Google Books.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "gdbedell" <gdbedell@...> wrote:
>
>>
> I looked for Buddhadatta's Pali conversation book in Colombo in
July when I was there and
> did not find it. Many of his other books, including all three
volumes of the New Pali
> Course, a Pali reader, and his dictionary, are readily available in
bookstores there. I think
> the conversation book has not been reprinted recently. Perhaps if
he can get hold of a
> copy, Yong Peng would be interested in going through it as he has
done (is doing) with
> the New Course, but I don't know whether it contains suitable
exercise material. I am
> impressed with the enthusiasm of several people who want to learn
how to speak Pali in
> their daily lives, but I don't think we can expect to see Pali
textbooks using the 'aural-oral'
> or 'communicative' approachs so popular with modern languages.
There is no one who
> could write such texts or use them properly to teach the language.
That is because Pali is
> a dead language without native speakers.
>
>
> >
> with metta,
>
> George B
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Fernquest" <bayinnaung@> wrote:
> >
> > Dear List Members;
> >
> > Thank you for the information about Buddhadhatta's conversation
book.
> >
> > They probably have that book at Mahachulalongkorn Buddhist
University
> > in Bangkok, but their catalog is not online so I'll have to check
online.
> >
> > How far back communication in Pali between monks in different
> > countries goes back raises an interesting question.
> >
> > There was a lot of communication between Sri Lanka and the Mon
coastal
> > region and central Burma and whole libraries transported from Sri
> > Lanka to Burma. The Mahavihara lineage made its way to Toungoo
around
> > 1500. The Siam Nikaya was founded in Sri Lanka in the 18th
century. I
> > wonder whether they spoke Pali and how the early Pali education
was done?
> >
> > Thanks Again.
> >
> > Jon
> >
>