A webinar conducted by Open Pathshala (http://openpathshala.com) on 'Get Started with Sanskrit'. What's in this webinar? - What is Sanskrit? - Why learn Sanskrit? - How to start learning Sanskrit? - Possible barriers in learning process and how Open Pathshala solves them - Tips for learning Sanskrit - Online/Offline resources for learning Sanskrit ------------------ Important links: Sanskrit Grammar tutorials: http://openpathshala.com/course-catalogue Spoken Sanskrit Tutorials: http://openpathshala.com/sanskrit-live-class On demand Sanskrit learning (video conference based classes) http://openpathshala.com/sanskrit-live-class

1. Get Started with Sanskrit

2. संस्कृ त || Sanskrit
• सम् + कृ = well or completely refined
• One of the 22 scheduled languages of India

3. संस्कृ त || Sanskrit
• Descendant of the Proto-Indo-European language
• Mother of lots of languages of Indian subcontinent

4. Why Sanskrit?
• A link between the various regions of India
Strong Sanskrit influence across all the regions of
India

5. Why Sanskrit?
• Communicate with our past through literature &
get access to the stored wisdom
• Ancient India's scientific works are written in
Sanskrit

6. Why Sanskrit?
• Understand what mantras and chants mean
• An amazing language for naming and branding
• Unlocking the stored wisdom built over thousands
of years

7. How to start learning
Sanskrit?
• Focus on your field of interest (eg.
poetics/grammar/conversation etc.)
• Learning Subhashitas || 100 subhashitas = Pandita
• Start conversation first

8. How to start learning
Sanskrit?
• Learn grammar online @ OpenPathshala.com
Even refer some books from Samskrita Bharati
• Read short stories/dramas and magazines in
Sanskrit

9. How to start learning
Sanskrit?
• Group studies for practice and conversation
• Vocabulary building - Amarkosha, Sanskrit
Vyavaharsahasri

10. Barriers in learning Sanskrit
• Loss of motivation / unable to keep up the
consistency
• I don’t have the time
• I’m not confident enough to speak the language

11. Barriers in learning Sanskrit
• Worrying about making mistakes
• I don’t know which resources will help me
• I can’t recall the right vocabulary

12. Barriers in learning Sanskrit
• Getting tangled up with Sanskrit Grammar
• Getting frustrated when listening to experts
speaking in Sanskrit
• Believing it has to be hard learning Sanskrit

13. So, What does?
Sanskrit Grammar Courses:
Basic, Intermediate and Advance level
http://OpenPathshala.com/course-catalogue

14. So, What does?
Sanskrit One on One:
http://OpenPathshala.com/sanskrit-live-class
On Demand
Sanskrit Teaching
Customized Curriculum
According to each student
Grammar/Literature/Conversation
Learn from Home

15. So, What does?
Sanskrit One on One:
http://OpenPathshala.com/sanskrit-live-class
Video Conference
Based Learning
Learn from Language
Experts
Using Latest
Technology to Teach

16. Tips for effective learning of
Sanskrit
• Speak from day one
• Practice what you learnt with your friends or co-
learners from your class
• Make lots and lots (and lots) of mistakes and learn
from them

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19. Tips for effective learning of
Sanskrit
• Vocabulary serves you best when it’s relevant to
you and your life. Learn ~300 basic words
• Watch programs in Sanskrit
• Learn basic grammar and practice writing

20. Tips for effective learning of
Sanskrit
• Online learning:
• A chance to learn from best people around the world
• Use of powerful digital tools

21. Online Tools
Category: Books/PDFs/Dictionaries
http://sanskritdocuments.org
http://learnsanskrit.org/resources
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/apte
http://www.sanskritebooks.org
Category: Online groups
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/samskrita
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sanskrit-learning

22. Online Tools
Category: Websites/blogs on Sanskritlearning
https://simplesanskrit.wordpress.com
http://www.ubcsanskrit.ca
http://www.languagereef.com/learn_sanskrit.php?lang=SANSKRIT
http://www.chitrapurmath.net/sanskrit/sanskrit_Iesson.asp
Category: YouTube material
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL498DD92172740CBE
https://www.youtube.com/user/sanskritanews/videos

23. Offline Tools
Periodic classes of Sanskrit Conversation:
http://samskritabharati.in/courses/spoken-samskrit-class
Meet Sanskrit enthusiast group in your locality:
http://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false&keywords=sanskrit&r
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24. Your Turn Now
Questions!

25. Thank You!