Sambhashanam – Sanskrit For Beginners

Learning a language is always fascinating. And even more fascinating is learning Sanskrit. Sanskrit, as many conscious learners have experienced, generates joy, clarity, purity and peace. It leads to true happiness and fills the heart and mind with a perfect sense of Ananda or immortality. The rhythmic beauty and melody of this language, vibrational purity of its sounds, richness of its phonetic quality, transparency of its root-sounds and their senses, richness of its vocabularies and thought contents, all these have made Sanskrit truly great.

The Rishis of ancient time used Sanskrit as a tool for discovering the true nature of themselves and all that they saw in and around them. Herein lies the sacredness of Sanskrit – it helps to discover the sacredness of life. It has tremendous potentiality to make us realize the divinity within us. It is in this sense that Sanskrit is devabhasha, a divine language.

The most practical value of learning Sanskrit lies in the fact that it trains the mind to think logically, brings clarity of expression, develops intellectual strength, provides keen insight into the meanings of the words. The vibrational quality of Sanskrit has a direct impact on the functioning of the brain, and can help in enhancing memory and the ability to concentrate. Moreover, it helps in the growth of consciousness, has immense power in bringing a greater transformation.

Keeping in mind the lock down period in India and the many requests from huge number of people showing interest in learning Sanskrit we offer a month long (18 hours- 12 sessions each of one and half hours) intensive conversational Sanskrit course in which one gets an opportunity to come in contact with this beautiful language in a most natural way through conversation, songs, chanting, activities, stories, games and presentations.

Course Details

The aim of this 18 hrs intensive course is to introduce Sanskrit to those who are genuinely interested in learning this language, in its spoken form. The objective is to bring the participants/learners in contact with many beautiful aspects of this language in a most effective manner. Here one can learn not only how to communicate through simple Sanskrit, but also stories and dialogues, chanting and singing in this most beautiful language. The course is open to all age groups.

Learning Objectives

Here, in this course one learns:

Session 1 : Introduction

Session 2: Simple Sentences and Essential Vocabulary

Session 3: How to communicate through simple conversational Sanskrit

Session 4: The functional grammar of Sanskrit. Genders

Session 5: Use of relative pronouns and verbs.

Session 6: Tenses and Simple Sentences

Session 7: Locative forms of Pronouns/Gerund Form of Verb

Session 8: Simple Sentences in Past Tenses/Use of fourth case in Pronouns

Session 9: Singular/Plural + Essential Vocabulary

Session 10: Imperatives and Adverbs

Session 11: Sentence Formation + Vocabulary

Session 12:Use of 5th Case in Pronouns + Recap

Prerequisites: Anyone genuinely interested to develop self-awareness through Sanskrit. Please download the Language Curry app to complement your live learning.

Recorded sessions would be provided to those who missed the live session.