Hi, I have a basic query

[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

I got this forum through a Search engine, and thereby giving you an email. I was just wondering if somebody could help out in answering my basics questions about Sanskrit.

 

Due to various reasons, I was not able to learn either the national language Hindi properly or, Sanskrit.

 

I found this forum quite useful to get to know about Sanskrit, and I have few basic questions, which I request you, though simple, to answer.

 

1. Whether it better to start with learning Hindi and then go to Sanskrit or the other way round,

 

2. How far is Sanskrit variant from Hindi, consequently, is Devanagiri script is different from Hindi alphabets.

 

Expecting your helping answers,

 

Friendly,

P.VIJAYA KUMAR.

Germany.

[Guest guest]

hi!

I've been learning sanskrit for 4 months now, and I have to say that once you've learned the script (devanagari) you'll proceed quite quickly. I found the script to be the most difficult part in the beginning, but later on you'll notice that the grammar can be quite tricky as well sometimes (especially for westeners..).

I'd like to learn hindi, too but not yet, because I'd mix up the two languages, I guess. my advice for you is to start with sanskrit, you'll get a bit of a 'feeling' for indian languages and by the way hindi derives from sanskrit so it will be not too difficult to learn the vocab, because you might know some terms from sanskrit.

if you start the other way round you might end up seeing sanskrit as 'too old' and 'too boring' to learn, because it isn't spoken by many people anymore..

 

anyway, wish you all the best for your language course!