I am still a studens wrestling with the first lessons of the Paali
primer. I study at home, I have no teacher around. the biggest beed
for me would not be slideshows but more and more varied exercises.
(audio-files would be great, though) I hope that once I have finished
Da Silva's book I can start reading some texts, and that it is then
possible to study the dhammapada (on the taiwanese site), or the
anguttara nikaya (in the digital pali reader), and thus combine
pali-study with real texts.
For now, I can only work with the available course-material.
The translation exercises require a lot of dicipline (I know it is a
buddhist virtue). More exercises and variation in the exercises would
make it a lot easyer for me to hammer the declensions and conjugations
into my head. Exercises like: "read the story and answer the
questions". "find all genitive cases in the story". "Put the next
sentences into plural if the sentence is in singular, put them into
singular if the sentence is in plural" "fill in the missing
declensions in the next sentences", "give the full declensions in
singular and plural of the next words" "give the full conjugation of
these verbs", "write the next words in the correct alphabetical order".
Of course I am willing to help in making exercises like this, and
provide the answers, but someone who knows a bit more than I do should
check the answers.