I’m planning to start a new online Pāli learning class starting Sunday, March 3, at 6pm (US East Coast time), which is, for my location in Brisbane, Australia, 9am Monday, March 4.
We are currently winding up a very successful online Pāli course started by Bhante @Sujato in the middle of last year, and which has been continued by me after he no longer had the time available, and which course is ending in a few weeks.
There is no perfect time slot to suit everybody in the different time zones around the globe, unfortunately, and this current course, while convenient for those in Australia, Asia, and Europe, was less than ideal for those in the Americas.
The new class starting will now be better for those in North and South America, New Zealand, and Australia, and East and South-East Asia, but not so good for others. But, of course, everybody is welcome to join - you may be a late-night owl or an early riser.
The text-book we will be using will be a New Course in Reading Pāli by Gair and Karunatillake. Those of you wishing to join should arrange to get themselves a copy of this book (hard-copy, preferably) and be committed, serious students willing to attend online classes regularly and spend several hours each week doing the assigned homework.
Additional info below. [I’m stealing these lines straight from Ven. Sujato when he introduced his initial course. Same applies in the new course.]
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students MUST be dedicated and committed to completing the course (to the best of their abilities)
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students will be assigned substantial homework, memorizing and translating texts
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if you don’t want to memorize grammatical categories, don’t even think about it
Each class will run about an hour and a quarter to an hour and a half, and the whole course will run for about 20 weeks (or until we complete the text-book).
Please indicate your interest by responding to this thread. I look forward to working with you.