Thank you Ria for the welcome and treasure of information I will check these out immediately.
 
Greetings,
 
Jade

--- On Thu, 4/23/09, grasje <grasje@...> wrote:


From: grasje <grasje@...>
Subject: [Pali] Re: Pali
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 12:22 PM








Welcome Jade!

Pali is an indo-european language and is easier to learn than arabic. Even knowing a little bit of Pali can help you understand sutta's better, and that can be very inspiring.
Still, like many worthwile things in life, it takes quite some determined effort.

For learning basic pali you could start with some courses that are available on Internet. They are easier and have more exercises than the standardwork "introduction to Pali" by A.K. Warder.
1 Pali primer: http://www.vri. dhamma.org/ publications/ pali/primer/ index..html
2 Elementary course: http://orunla. org/tm/pali/ htpali/pcourse. html

They cover the same topics in the first lessons. The Pali primer is the easiest one to start with, after every few lessons you could do one or more lessons of the other course. After lesson 9 the second course becomes easier than the Pali primer.

The answers to the exercises are on
http://www.tipitaka .net/pali/ palidd/

For learning the vocabularies you could use the spreadsheet (pali-english vocabulary correct endings in Velthuis) in the files-section of this forum. That one is good for memorising the words with all the diacritical marks. If you just want to recognise the words you can also use the vocabularies for jmemorize (directory in the files-section of this forum. Here are also files for the alphabet and the declension of nouns), in combination with the program
http://jmemorize. org/
For hearing the words spoken out aloud go to http://www.tipitaka .net/pali/ andy/palwvm. htm
or http://www.geocitie s.com/paligroup/
At the bottom of the page, under miscellaneous, paliwvm.zip

After lesson 8 of both courses you might slowly want to start with reading real pali texts in the book "A New Course in Reading Pali: Entering the Word of the Buddha" ISBN 812081441X, for sale at Mlbd.com

With this all, you will be busy for the year to come.

I wish you very good progress and lot's of inspiration with your study

Kind regards,

Ria Glas

--- In Pali@... com, collies85@.. . wrote:
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> Hello Everyone,
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> I am new to the list.  I am a little new to Buddhism.  I understand that Pali belongs to the Indo-European language family, Indo-Aryan.  Should make it somewhat easy to learn.  I hope.  In Chinese there is only one verb tense I just found out.  That is why they say something like this: Yesterday I go there. My native language is English and I live in the U.S.
> I would welcome any suggestions on what book in English-Pali I could learn basic Pali. I would also like to know what modern Indian language is closest to Pali in grammar? I like Theravada Buddhism also. Nice to meet all of you.
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> Jade
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