Sanskrit Lessons / Разговорный санскрит

Sanskrit Lessons 333 p. + Vocabulary 69 p. Уроки разговорного санскрита для владеющих английским языком (часть неизвестного индийского аудио- или видеокурса). Аудиофайлы отсутствуют. Все фразы приводятся на деванагари с параллельной транскрипцией и переводом на английский. In most cases the translation of sentences within lessons is very literal, word-for-word translation from which the meaning of the sentence and the words can easily be deciphered. When such translation proved to be too ambiguous or vague there is a clearer translation in the parenthesis. More information is sometimes given in the vocabulary. Although majority of the word forms are obvious if you follow the lesson carefully, in some cases the additional information proves to be helpful for clearer comprehension. The verse, the saying (or whatever you want to call the subhashita), and the story (katha) are the hardest to follow for a student. For beginner knowing every grammatical form and rule could be more of a burden then help, so I chose not to be too technical in explanations and translations both in the transcript and in the vocabulary part. Bare with the bits you won’t understand completely in the beginning. just listen and pick up the words gradually, the understanding will follow soon. Especially if you try your best to speak as much as possible, no matter how funny your pronunciation, how difficult finding the words and the proper endings, how mind-boggling some sentences prove to be. The lessons are designed intelligently and they provide all the necessary information for leaing. For Indians, of course, who happen to know the majority of the words, since they are the same or very similar in their mother tongues. Westeers are often bewildered when they hear many of those basic It doesn’t end there. Word orders seem awkward, long compounds take seconds to unravel (if not minutes), many sentences seem grammatically illogical, etc. It takes time to tune into the logic of the language. Then only you get to feel the beauty of Sanskrit. The transcript and the vocabulary are designed for the sake of Weste students, who otherwise stumbled on many problems when they listened to the lessons without any aids.