General approach
- Steps to learning would be : listening, speaking, reading, writing .. Many options if you’re determined to learn.
- PS: Grammar translation method is a bad idea. Leads to myths about “Sanskrit is a tough language”.
- Approaches for learning grammar described elsewhere.
Other language learning tips elsewhere.
Learn with AI
- Top tools - Ai studio google. polish with DeepSeek and chatgpt.
- You can ask it to give you five random words to write a short story with. And then you write it. And then ask it to point out mistakes.
From zero to hero
Survey
- If you are a non-newbie : Please take time to fill this short survey: https://rebrand.ly/skt-zero-to-hero . It will help guide other Sanskrit learners.
- Skill levels observed: see here.
- Stories and advice here.
Top ways
- Samskrita Bharati conducts well designed structured programs to get you speaking in a few days. Great place to start. Find a beginners sanskrit class nearby - India, USA etc..
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general approach
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Apps: language curry - sanskrit lessons designed by sampadAnanda mishra of aravindAshrama. Review awaited.
“The best way to learn Sanskrit is by immersing in its poetic literature after some basic grammar (for me, Karnataka State Board 8th std - 10th std first language Sanskrit grammar 1989-1992 was more than enough to easily understand Shriharsha’s Naishadheeya).” - Dr R Shankar, Poet and avadhAnin
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Read 50 issues of https://sambhashanasandesha.in/ cover to cover. Take up SB correspondence course. Also read vAlmIki’s rAmAyaNa cover to cover.
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A friend use lessons from chitrapur maTha to learn the basics, and then started reading shAstra-s, stotras and kAvya-s that interested him.
“Go to vyoma. Sanskrit from home. Join the Sura Saraswati sabha prathama. Completed videos, ppts etc are available. Similarly Samskrita Sri I and II. Subscribe and learn. Free courses. From varnamala (letters)” - rAmu
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संस्कृतेन भाषितुं स्वयं ज्ञातवान्। आदौ चित्रपुरमठजालक्षेत्रेण संस्कृतभारतीपुस्तकैर् ज्ञानसम्पादनम्। ततो लेखनाभ्यासः। दूरवाण्या स्वभाषणं परिचारकैर् धात्रीभिश् च सहापि भाषित्वा।
Sanskrit household
- How to raise a mutlilingual kid in an environment dominated by English?
- Use the “don’t/ won’t understand” policy.