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what happened to your channel? are you okay? even if you don't make more videos, it would be nice to know you are doing alright because i've used your videos as a reference for years and i feel invested in your projects lol
I find that your language channel is probably my favorite to watch. I appreciate the quality videos helping those wishing to learn a first or perhaps another classical language, and I also agree with many of the points made within these videos.
Could anyone recommend me the best books you know to learn ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Akkadian language? I really need it. Congratulations for your channel, deka glossai, the most useful I found about ancient languages!
I wonder if I could have some advice with Sanskrit verbs? I am used to the nice principal part system of Greek, and Sanskrit verbs are so much more complicated. Is it simply a matter of learning all the rules for turning a root into a stem for each individual mood and tense - not to mention gerunds, gerundives and participles? It feels like I will never get a proper handle on them.
Have you considered learning Akkadian or Ancient Egyptian? The "Teach Yourself" for 'Babylonian' is very good, while Assimil's Anc. Egyp. course is excellent.
Have you looked at Sanskrit-Kompendium? It doesn't have audio, but it has lots of sentences and is focused on gradual progression instead of tedious grammar-translation. It seems like a very good methodology.
Have you checked out Dr. Ruppel's "Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit"? That's what I bought as a my guide, and then I plan to take Zoom classes starting this May 2020. As a Classics student myself, I believe this is the only available option in the English speaking world which is as scholarly and advanced as Athenaze's Greek or Wheelock's Latin textbooks. I can tell you are a very fast language learner and polyglot. For myself, I have studied Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, and Russian at the University level and Sanskrit is my 7th language to pick up. Not everyone is as capable of handling multiple languages. To assume people can just pick up French in order to learn Sanskrit is not an overall standard, but maybe 1 in a million students will be on this level of advanced processing. I do plan to learn French if possible in order to look better for graduate school, but to pick it up in a few weeks is not reasonable until you are a genius. For me, I had 1 semester of Russian and still speak very simplified sentences which I am barely able to communicate with my 14-year-old Belarusian friend. But I still got all A's and was the top of my class. Language takes time to learn. Even the best of students needs to take it slow enough to process and sink in.
Well, it's not like you have to be some master of French. You just need to know enough to understand written text with help of a dictionary. There are tons of cognates with English.
How does the difficulty of learning Sanskrit compare to other languages for an English speaker? Have you found it easier than other dead languages, or the alive ones? Is it at least easier than ancient Greek, or am I in for a treat?
portal If you've learnt any highly inflected language like Latin or Greek then learning Sanskrit would be a lot easier but if you haven't then it'd be a lot more difficult.
If you don't mind speaking it like a barbarian then its not that difficult. If you really want to learn the proper pronunciation, it will take your lifetime and you still would sound like a barbarian
In another video, you recommended learning Ancient Greek through Modern Greek. Would you recommend learning a North Indian language like Hindi first before tackling Sanskrit? Hindi almost certainly has many, many more easily accessible resources than Sanskrit, but that might be a moot point if the distance between them is too far. What do you think?
I looked a bit into Hindi, but it seems to be very different from Sanskrit. It has lost almost all original Sanskrit cases (but partially replaced them with new ones) and has replaced most tenses by participle constructions, leaving almost no traces of the original conjugation. On top of that all, the sound changes to Hindi seem to be very nontrivial and a lot of the basic vocabulary has been borrowed from Persian, so the only words you could recognize from Sanskrit are learned expressions of a scientific/cultural nature. To sum it up, it wouldn't be more helpful than learning French in order to acquire Latin.
I know Sanskrit, Hindi and a bit of some other Indian languages. There is big difference between Hindi and Sanskrit. The basic structure and grammar are completely different. The basic vocabulary of Hindi is derived from Sanskrit (tadbhava words) but it is not very usefull. Compare the relation of French and Latin. Nez versus nasus and oeuil versus oculus. Hindi can be helpful for pronuciation of Sanskrit. Same vowels, retroflex and aspirated consonants. The script is the same. If you at an advanced state of Hindi, then you have a great advantage for Sanskrit. 75% of the Hindi vocabulary consists of pure Sanskrit words (tatsama words). Adhunik(a) vijnan(a) = modern science; bhasha = language; shabd(a) = word; vyakaran(a) = grammar; udaharan(a) = exemple; kavi = poet; disha = direction;
Hindi is a lot different than Sanskrit and there are a lot of Persian words, but it still helps with vocabulary, getting comfortable reading Devanagari, and pronunciation. It's also a lot easier to immerse in it.
@@Kupo033 That's basically the conclusion I'm coming to. It also seems that most of the learning materials out there are through Hindi, so a basic proficiency in it might open up a lot of doors. Plus, if someone likes Indian culture enough to learn Sanskrit, immersing in Hindi for 100-200 hours would probably be quite fun and not too much of a detour.
Greek certainly is an amazing example of the gradual change over time which makes reverse chronological reading very effective. There is a greater difference between Sanskrit and the modern languages of India than between Ancient Greek and Modern Greek, but it still is very worthwhile to learn the modern variants first, mainly because it is simply so much easier to build a good foundation in a modern language than in an ancient language.
Χαίρε, deka glossai! Je voulais juste te remercier pour la qualité de tes vidéos qui sont parmi mes vidéos préférées de RU-vid. Ta culture, ton charme, ta voix et le contenu font de moi un fan! Et je ne me laisse pas facilement impressionner. ;) One thing I was always on the lookout for, but never heard, was what motivated you to begin learning samskrita, αρχαία ελληνική γλώσσα, linguamque latīnam. I'd really love to know. What aspects of these languages have been most challenging and enjoyable for you? I'm a passionate language, too; n'hésite donc pas à me faire signe si tu aimerais faire connaissance via Facebook, par exemple. :) Cūrā ut valeās!
It's a coincidence that I'm learning these two languages at the same time. (French and Sanskrit). French 'cause it's a beautiful language and Sanskrit is also beautiful but I'm learning (trying to learn) 'cause it's a logical language, scientific language; I really want to give these two languages to my children, I'm not married but I really really want to pass on these two languages to my children. I just love languages!!!!
@@meusisto I only know the basics of it. I actually want to learn Latin first then Sanskrit and Classical Greek. I don't know I can do it or not but I want to learn these languages.
@@Aditya-te7oo you can do it, and your children will be super scholars as a result. Let me know if you need a study partner in any of the 3 languages you mention, I have some experience in all 3 to varying degrees. Good luck!
i read sanskrit till 6th standerd... but i still remember path sabd roop... just like tenses in English.. can anyone tell me ...padti pthtah patanthi...
Libri de Assimil meliores sunt. Nunc utor tale libelle ut disceret linguam Bascam. In solum triabus septimanas, multum iam acquiri ex hac antiquissima lingua. Non solum linguam, sed etiam ipsum libellum, iam valde amo.
plz donot read any of the books written by european scholars.plz refer to indian authors.the books are free of errors.european scholars have made ample of mistakes in these books.i have read most of the authors mentioned in this vedio.
The Assimil course is written by Nalini Balveer, an Indian. There are also perfect books by European scholars and books by Indians which are not perfect. Sanskrit is a learned language for Europeans as well for Indians. The material of Samskrita Bharati is not fit for classical Sanskrit. It is simplified Sanskrit. Best spoken Sanskrit is taught in Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry.
