Language tools and Pali translations

[christie]

@Gillian

I’ve just realised that you are talking about developments of SC in the future? Because of the heading of this thread, I thought you were making proposals for the first few weeks of beginners study with Bhante S! …

@bran and I are talking about a proposal by Bhante, as per this post:

@sujato

@christie

a word by word transliteration, followed by a “natural English” translation

That’s a really useful approach. In fact, it is something that I’d be delighted to see someone take up on SuttaCentral. Even just for selected suttas, having both word-by-word and idiomatic translations together would be really helpful.

I have no proposals for how Bhante should run this course, I am excitedly awaiting for it like others I am sure. I also have no proposals or recommendations for how people should study Pali, each individual has their own learning style.