Who Wants to Learn Pāli - take 4 (Gair and Karunatillake)

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Hi Ian. The classes will be recorded. I hope you will try to attend the class live when you can (good for practicing Pāli pronunciation, and asking questions directly) and keep up with classes by recording otherwise.

John

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Hi Sean,

Look forward to having you in the class. A little bit of Sanskrit knowledge will indeed be helpful.

John

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Excellent, Joseph. Were you part of an earlier Pāli class of mine, but then dropped out? Your name looks familiar. If so, good to see you again for another crack at it.

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that’s me! once more into the breach! :slight_smile:

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Thank you so much for offering this course, @johnk. Please sign me up!

I’m Ātāpī Upāsako, located in the UK. I have very basic knowledge of Pali - I’m currently on chapter 18 in the Pali Primer.

I’ve been looking for a structured course for a while and I’m really looking forward to starting this course in March.

Thank you again for setting this up.

Mettā,

Ātāpī

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Welcome to the class, Ātāpī. That’s great you’ve worked through a lot of de Silva already. Keep it up until we start classes in early March.

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Name: Sandeep Kharat

Timezone: Indian standard time

Experience: familiar with some Pali words

Thank you for the opportunity to learn Pali.

From March, approximately until when will the batch (take 4) run?

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Welcome to the class, Sandeep.

My/our class goal is to go through the entirety of the excellent book by Gair and Karunatillake, A New Course in Reading Pāli. This book has 12 rather dense chapters which I find usually takes about 2 weeks each to go through all the grammar and do all the exercises. So along with an introductory lesson this means about 25 online zoom classes to complete. And with a two-week gap between classes, this means about 50 weeks all up.

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Thank you! Do you need an email address to send us details about the course (Zoom link, etc.)?

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No email address needed. All course details, including the Zoom links, etc. will be posted on this thread on the Sutta Central Discuss and Discover forum. So just keep an eye on this Pāli course site.