Dear Ria and friends,

thank you, and a great welcome to Ria and all new members.

Ria, I am glad to learn of your interest in Pali. I am also a student
myself. It is also a virtue in Buddhism that we continuously learn and
improve ourselves. We can also apply these principles to our work and
household lives.

I hope you can remain active with the group. There are in fact many
Dutch members here, the most prominent being Nina, who has been an
excellent mentor to myself and many others.

I thank you for the files you have uploaded. I will take a look at
them again when I have some spare time this weekend. The exercise
suggestions you made are great. You are always welcome to lead any
discussion beneficial for the group. You are also welcome to
participate in our AN translation exercise, which is resumed this
year. There is also the postings Florent and I make, and the Saddaniti
discussions by our more advance members.

I am also glad that you are also computer literate. Many of the
contents in the mailing list are worthy to be captured on the web, but
organising these material is too much for me. I am investigating ways
of doing this, but some little help will be great.

I am proposing the slides because that is something I can work on
without much assistance. The slides can incorporate voice and music to
be multimedia, or the voice and music can be added to the slides to be
video later. Is there anyone happy to lend his or her voice? ;-)


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, grasje wrote:

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.