Introduction to Sanskrit (Part.I): Part 1
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Review: Fantastic practical introduction, highly recommended - This book is a delight to go through. Excellent for people with no academic or linguistic background. The author builds your knowledge step by step, keeping it practical and simple. You'll be able to learn by yourself. There are many exercises in varying difficulties, all the while solvable. You'll find yourself being able to read and write Sanskrit so quickly. This book makes it fun! The book initially is quite slow, which allows you to build confidence and take it easy. The pace and difficulty does pick up in later chapters. Which is fair enough, and still very well done. The book is very much "to the point" and does not bombard you with innumerable details (like Coulson's Teach Yourself Complete Sanskrit for example...). In a way, this "Part 1" does not go very deeply into academic linguistics and grammar. Rather it is a more practical introduction and acquisition. So for example while learning nouns, you'll learn what are, and how to use the various declensions (like Ablative and Genitive) of nouns of different endings (like "a" and "an"), but you won't learn how to build the noun from the stem. However, the author goes into those more advanced topics in the second book in the series, "Part 2". This keeps it practical. With this book you start learning really what is Sanskrit and acquiring it. It looks like in part 2 you'll dive deeper and "learn" it more academically. This is part of the reason why this book is such a great start to learn Sanskrit. Compared to Coulson's heavy TYCS, for a newbie like myself, this book is simply a delight. Speaks to you simply and plainly. Very practical. You'll be able to learn by yourself and enjoy the process. I recommend getting the hardcover as you'll be able to keep the book open and flip pages more easily (which you'll do a lot), and it's physically bigger than the paperback version. It feels nicer. Kudos for the author for making such a great introduction. Review: very good packing - like a lot
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A**F
Fantastic practical introduction, highly recommended
This book is a delight to go through. Excellent for people with no academic or linguistic background. The author builds your knowledge step by step, keeping it practical and simple. You'll be able to learn by yourself. There are many exercises in varying difficulties, all the while solvable. You'll find yourself being able to read and write Sanskrit so quickly. This book makes it fun! The book initially is quite slow, which allows you to build confidence and take it easy. The pace and difficulty does pick up in later chapters. Which is fair enough, and still very well done. The book is very much "to the point" and does not bombard you with innumerable details (like Coulson's Teach Yourself Complete Sanskrit for example...). In a way, this "Part 1" does not go very deeply into academic linguistics and grammar. Rather it is a more practical introduction and acquisition. So for example while learning nouns, you'll learn what are, and how to use the various declensions (like Ablative and Genitive) of nouns of different endings (like "a" and "an"), but you won't learn how to build the noun from the stem. However, the author goes into those more advanced topics in the second book in the series, "Part 2". This keeps it practical. With this book you start learning really what is Sanskrit and acquiring it. It looks like in part 2 you'll dive deeper and "learn" it more academically. This is part of the reason why this book is such a great start to learn Sanskrit. Compared to Coulson's heavy TYCS, for a newbie like myself, this book is simply a delight. Speaks to you simply and plainly. Very practical. You'll be able to learn by yourself and enjoy the process. I recommend getting the hardcover as you'll be able to keep the book open and flip pages more easily (which you'll do a lot), and it's physically bigger than the paperback version. It feels nicer. Kudos for the author for making such a great introduction.
M**.
very good packing
like a lot
A**C
Useful book
A systematic yet gentle introduction to a great language.
A**R
Just received the book - so commenting only on physical item received, not the book's content
The post advertised a hardcover book. But I received a soft cover. So disappointed.
N**S
Fine
Its in English and it's very basic like vry basic sanskrit is taught like letters of devanagari which we Indians already know . Otherwise it's good for foreigners who don't know hindi
A**I
Best book
Best book till date for learning Sanskrit
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