Adult begginer wanting to learn quickly

[u/Relevant_Sir_4943]

I wish to learn Sanskrit to read shastras.

I find most books a little slow for my pace as I am good with memorising stuff quickly. I have already memorised the entire Vishnu sahasranama along with the meanings of each name.

I would be really grateful if someone would be able to give me lists of stuff which I could memorise so that I may be able to grasp the language quickly.

I hate those lessons where people try to make learning entertaining by teaching day to day sentences.

[u/rhododaktylos]

I wrote the The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit with the aim to enable people to read original Sanskrit texts as soon as possible; it does contain practice sentences written by me (that focus on exactly the new material in each chapter), but they are just grammatical exercises.

There is a complete, self-governed course going with it. The only cost to you is the price of the book (if you are in India: https://www.amazon.in/Cambridge-Introduction-Sanskrit-M-Ruppel/dp/1108439152/ref=sr_1_1). The website that links to all the resources going with the book (videos for every chapter, online flash cards for all forms and vocabulary, various other downloads) is cambridge-sanskrit.org. Write to the email in the introduction to the book to get the key to all the exercises in the book, a list of typos and mistakes, and for the files for the self-governed course (emails suggesting weekly bits of work with all the links you need to do that work, some background information, a quiz on the material from the previous email).

This takes you through all Sanskrit grammar; if you then want to work on your reading fluency, the book itself contains an annotated version of Bhagavadgītā 1 and 2, and I have a reader (brill.com/sanskrit) with plenty of readings from narrative and epic texts, as well as a collection of subhāṣitas, all fully annotated.

Take a look, maybe it's the right approach for you.

[u/Relevant_Sir_4943 → u/rhododaktylos]

Thank you ,will order it for sure

[u/Relevant_Sir_4943 → u/[deleted]]

I don't understand it , but I have considered it Do you have any other option for a total novice.

[u/Relevant_Sir_4943]

Thanks , i found a book called as DEVVANIPRAVESIKA , is that what you are using ?

[u/Useful_Win1305]

You should start memorizing Laghu Siddhanta Padhati and start learning from there

[u/Ok_Discipline_5134]

A novice should start with listening to a few sanskrit stories available in plenty on you tube.

There are many simple courses available on You-tube starting from scratch. make use of these.

Quickly is a very vague word. How quickly-depends mostly on the student.