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How to speak Pāḷi naturally?

     We should learn the way the children learn to speak. The learning style is gradual and with pictures and illustration. As we go along, we learn more vocabulary. Then we link the vocabulary with context/situation, like “He goes to school”. So linking between subject and object can be understood. In fact, the learning process is like playing Lego. We enjoy ourselves by connecting old lessons with new lessons. However, modern Pāḷi Grammar books require us to memorize endless new words and do many Pāḷi lessons. Sometimes there are not many connections between the earlier and later lessons
        In this book, as we go along, we introduce more vocabulary related to the topics. If we are discussing on the topic of a family, we will introduce to the readers the members of family i.e. the grandfather.
        Even though the nouns are classified into masculine, feminine and neutral, as like some European languages, we do not place too much stress on this point because they will burden the readers. What we can do is to teach the new words in masculine, then neutral and feminine gender. We have more lessons on declension on masculine nouns for the readers to be more familiar with the way of declension. Then when the readers are ready, they can move to feminine and neutral gender.
        We try to present each new word at the suitable lessons. If readers want to learn more words or to check up their genders, please refer to any Pāḷi dictionary.

Dictionary used are: Pāḷi-English from Pāḷi Text Society, Pāḷi Concise Dictionary (Buddhadatta), English-Pāḷi Dictionary by Metta Net, Sri Lanka.
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Delension table on three genders. 



Lesssons (pdf) and Recordings (mp3)
             Chapter Recordings:  课程的解释及录音 
0. Introduction
 1. Chapter 1
Introduce simple present
 tense and personal pronoun.		[Introduction]
[Lesson 1.1 Simple Present Tense]
[Lesson 1.2 Personal pronoun and 1.3]
[Lesson 1.4 Exercise]
[Lesson 1.5 Subject + Object + Verb and location] 		[介绍]
[课程1.1]
[课程1.2]
[课程1.3]
[课程1.4]
[课程1.5]
 2. Chapter 2 (第二课)
Declension on Masculine nouns
ending with 'a'.
With examples of Putta, Buddha, Kassapa		[Lesson 2.1]
[Lesson 2.2 More explanation on declension]
[Lesson 2.3 Declensions on Buddha, Kassapa ]
[Lesson 2.4 Exercise and revision] 		[课程2.1]
[课程2.2]
[课程2.3]
[课程2.4]

 3. Chapter 3
Continue the declension
on masculine nouns
ending with 'i', 'u'.		[Lesson 3.1Muni]
[Lesson 3.2 Garu]
[Lesson 3.3 Phonetic Change]
[Lesson 3.4 Exercise and revision] 		[课程3.1]
[课程3.2]
[课程3.3]
[课程3.4]

 4. Chapter 4
Remaining declensions
are masculine stem ending
with ‘ī’, ‘ū and ‘o’		[Lesson 4 Other declensions of masculine stem form]


 5. Chapter 5
Showing masculine nouns and exercise.		[Lesson 5.1 More exercise]


 6 Chapter 6
Declension of the Neutral Noun		[Lesson 6:Neutral Noun]
[Exercise 6.1]


 7. Chapter 7
Declension of the Feminine Noun		[Lesson 7:Feminine Noun]




 7. Chapter 8
Location and Body parts		[Lesson 8:Location and Body parts]




 7. Chapter 9
Showing family and
 other relationships		[Lesson 9]
[Lesson 9.2 Family tree and Occupation]
[Lesson 9.6 Occupation]



 7. Chapter 10
Showing different
types of verb:
present tense, future tense, 
imperative,
optative,
past tense, 
gerund,
present participle,
infinitive,
passive verb, 
passive present participle. 		[Lesson 10 Present and Future] 
[Lesson 10.3 Imperative, Optative]
[Lesson 10.5 Past Tense]
[Lesson 10.6 Gerund]
[Lesson 10.7 Present Continuous Tense, Infinitive, Passive]
[Lesson 10.10 Passive Present Continuous Participle]

*** We are writing other chapters. ***** coming soon *****
and we have recordings for the chapters. **

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