Sanskrit is spoken in a surprising number of traditional schools, ashrams and colleges throughout India, but especially in holy centres and pilgrimage sites in the North. In addition, there is a small but growing community of Sanskrit speakers outside India. This two-week residential course, run intensively over the Australian summer, will give students immersion experience in Spoken Sanskrit. Students will acquire basic facility with introoductory conversational patterns, and will improve their aural comprehension through story telling, and their pronunciation through chanting and singing.

1. Fluency in basic conversational patterns.

2. High level of comprehension in basic conversational patterns.

3. Accuracy in prounciation in recitation of subhashitas (verses).

4. Intermediate level of aural comprehesion of simple spoken narratives.

Participation (10%) (LO 1,2,3,4)

Conversation test (30%) (LO 1)

Subhashita test (30%) (LO 3)

Aural comprehension test (30%) (LO 4)

Six contact hours, five days per week, for two weeks  =total 60 hours contact

Conversation test

Subhashita test

Aural comprehension test

Written assignment

One year of Sanskrit studies at tertiary level or equivalent

It is assumed that the student has studied all the common forms of basic Sanskrit grammar and can read and write Devanagari script with a degree of facility

Subhashita Manjari (S.Das)

Little Red Book of Sanskrit Paradigms (M.Taylor)

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