>>The basic Sanskrit course that I took ended in an exam which was just a grammar/maths paper.
where did you do this course? bangalore, elsewhere? maths= "vedic" maths? On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Jeremy Bornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > [...] > > > > > I find > > > it an interesting language, and useful from the brain engineering > > > point of view more than anything else. > > > > Apologies, I of course totally understand that motivation, and have > > picked up a couple of languages in my past for no other reason other > > than that they sounded interesting. > > > > Cheeni > > > > I must agree that whenever I took up a language course, the inevitable > reaction was, "Why are you learning it?" I had only the Cheeni reason > to offer! > > Having said that, I must say that foreign languages are taught much > better than Indian languages here (in India I mean)...the latter are > taught like school subjects and there is no hearing/speaking exercise > at all. And there is such a stress on grammar that the fun of learning > the language is lost. The basic Sanskrit course that I took ended in > an exam which was just a grammar/maths paper....though the teacher did > try to speak only in Sankrit, the students were not responsive, and > were very bothered about the marks they would get in the exam. I did > not like the approach and since there were not enough students for the > nextlevel course, I did not pursue it further...and have forgotten all > that I learnt, which is what happens when I stop learning a language > after the entry-level course. > > Deepa. > > > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - does the frog know it has a latin name? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
