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Pali study guide reading pali by gair and karunatillake

Pali study guide Start with the Pali Primer by Lily de Silva This is a very accessible introduction to the language and provides lots of exercise sentences for translating Pali to English and also English to Pali It goes at a nice slow pace and introduces gradually the important concepts of noun declension and verb conjugation unfamiliar to most English speakers It's main limitation is that it does not use examples from the suttas in its exercises and it's presentation of material in the later chapters lacks a little depth It ? s probably even best to stop using this book after you ? ve gone through about half of it and when you are sick of translating sentences in the exercises like ??The monkey climbs the tree and sees the lion ? This book is easy to ?nd and even available to use directly from the internet http www vri dhamma org publications pali primer index html Alternatively start with one of the other basic books like Narada's Elementary Pali which is also freely available on the web After getting some basics under your belt I strongly recommend The New Course in Reading Pali by Gair and Karunatillake I have worked through it entirely and found that having completed the Pali Primer beforehand helped a lot but is not absolutely necessary The authors are very thorough in their treatment of the grammar and all the exercise material is directly taken from the suttas which is a very good feature My own answers for the exercises have been posted to the Pali Yahoo list and are maintained on the tipitaka net website for info about both of these see below The drawback with this book is that there are only about chapters and consequently each chapter contains an enormous amount of material The standard textbook Introduction to Pali by A K Warder covers all the basics in a very thorough way and I would consider it a must for all serious Pali students eventually ?? but it is not a book for beginners The exercise material is also right from the canon speci ?cally the Digha Nikaya and very useful in that respect But many people ?nd it to be a di ?cult book and not for the faint of heart Warder presents so much detail on each topic that this tends to be overwhelming and o ?-putting for someone just starting out However after tackling some other elementary texts ?rst then it becomes relatively easy to handle My solutions to the exercises for the ?rst chapters are posted on access to insight at http accesstoinsight org lib authors kelly answers index html and are also on the tipitaka net website An excellent grammar reference book to have on hand is A Pali Grammar for Students by Steven Collins The Pali English Dictionary PED published by the Pali Text Society is also a great book to eventually have as a resource material as you continue your Pali studies This is