Dear Steven and Dhammadarsa,

I downloaded the soundfiles a long time ago. Today I zipped them and put them under the files section of this site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/files/Pali%20sound%20files/

The answers to the exercises are on page http://www.tipitaka.net/pali/palidd/ In combination with the downloadable books this is an internet-course!

For people who are just starting with pali the "pali primer" (http://www.pratyeka.org/Silva/) is easier as Narada thera's course. I would recommend doing them at the same time, with every two lessons of the primer followed by one lesson of Narada Thera. Especially in the beginning they have the same subject to study. Doing them both gives you more opportunity to practice the declensions.

Learning the words with all diacritical marks can be practiced with an exercise-spreadsheet: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/files/
(Pali-english vocabulary)

If you just want to learn the vocabulary you can also use the vocabularies for jmemorize, a flascardprogram.
Jmemorize can be found on http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmemorize/

As soon as you get the hang of reading (sooner as you think! Try it at lesson 7 from Narada thera's course) it is very worthwile to install the pali text reader: http://sourceforge.net/projects/digitalpali/ Then study the anguttara nikaya. The repeated frases make it a very good start.

On http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/BDLM/en/index.htm the Dhammapada is available in complete (explained) translation and sound files. Klick Pali lessons (on the left), klick 3, readings in pali text (on the right). The Dhammapada is poetic. The short sentences are much more difficult to translate and understand as the long ones from the Anguttara Nikaya. But this concise summary of the dhamma is very motivating to study, the translations, explanations and the soundfiles are very helpful.

I whish you all the best with your study.

Kind regards,

Ria Glas

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Dhammadarsa" <dhammadaso@...> wrote:
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> Could anyone tell me if there is a Pali course offered online following one
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> Kind Regards
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