Learning Sanskrit
Three months is a very small window to learn a new language. Let’s see how and how much we can progress!
In the first month, week by week introduce yourself slowly to new topics.
Steps to start learning:
1.Introduce your brain to words in the Sanskrit
we can learn a language by listening to Sanskrit podcasts such as ivmpodcasts, playerfm, podbean, podchaser, samskritabharatipodcast, Listennotes, oursanskrit, Devyani radio and more Sanskrit podcasts available on available on iTunes (Apple Podcasts),Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, TuneIn, Stitcher, Radio Public, Hubhopper , or YouTube, listening to Sanskrit radio such as TuneIn, watching Sanskrit movies with English subtitles and English movies with Sanskrit subtitles, to get a fair idea of the language. You could use cinestaan, movies like punyakoti, priyamasanam(National Award winning Sanskrit movie) – also available in a book format, anurakthi( world’s first 3d Sanskrit movie), ishti, suryakantha, aham brahmaasmi, AdiShankaracharya, Bhagwad Gita, Madhurasmitham, Namo, Mdhubhashitham etc.
Listening to all such resources will also help you train to listen to Sanskrit words and pronunciations. To ensure you can take out at least 5 to 10 minutes to listen to the Sanskrit language could be news, could be radio, anything that you can do while on your way back home or while walking your dog or at any other convenient time, spare at hand.
Once you train your ears to listen to Sanskrit words, phrases, speech, accent, dialects, we recommend you start maintaining a journal or a diary. In the next part of learning, we will be learning to accumulate/gather all such words and phrases, which are simple enough and used in day-to-day conversations from omniglot, kimavi, ezglot. Other than that, update your vocabulary lists with fillers, conversation connectors, idioms and slang so that you can hold small conversations going forward.
Remember, the phrases you collect now don’t have to be grammatically perfect. The idea is to be able to start getting confident to say basic things about yourself, such as “ मम नाम सीता ” These little victories will help you gain confidence and develop interest to interact with someone in Sanskrit.