This is a general thread for people who are studying A New Course in Reading Pāli.
The book is available for purchase from Amazon and BookDepository.
During the Summer of 2020, @Stephen Sas, a long time Pali student of Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi conducted a series of 19 classes to lead students from the basic grammar to read simple Sutta in Pali. The BAUS Pali Level 1 webpage holds all Stephen’s material from this course ,with G&K chapters 1-4 presented in videos #7 - #17.)
Earlier, between January 2014 to August 2015, Bhikkhu Bodhi taught this series of Pali classes. BAUS presents this as Pali Level 2. Here there are 53 audio recordings by Bhikkhu Bodhi that cover the whole book and some support material. They are also available here on the Internet Archive, where there is also audio of the exercises.
Below are links to specific chapter threads. Please place discussion, links etc in the appropriate place. Enjoy!
There are a number of people who reached chapter five together, following Steven’s classes live.
@DanR: do join in. I made the chapter threads in parallel hoping that we’d attract more learners. If those of us who are up to chapter 3 or 5 can answer any questions you may have we’ll be glad to do so.
I’m a bit behind the main group because I dislocated the shoulder of my dominant hand round about the end of chapter 3. The shock, the sling, the painkillers all worked against intelligent learning.
If it keeps failing your best bet (and much easier than downloading one file at a time) would be to use the accompanying BitTorrent file. Just click here:
Deselect everything except the top two items and click the OK button.
After that nothing can really go wrong. Even if your connection should cut out (as mine does all the time) the program will just carry on where it left off when the connection comes back again.
Unless you want a gigabyte of audio files with the same content in several different formats, you will need to click on the arrow to the left of “New Pali Course MP3”. Then select the files in your preferred format from the dropdown menu.
Unfortunately both have passed away, but I like to imagine that they are looking on with some happiness to see our dedication to their book in the picture below!
If those of us who are up to chapter 3 or 5 can answer any questions you may have we’ll be glad to do so.
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but since I don’t want to leave people in suspense…