Dear All,
I would like to learn a bit of Sinhala. I naively thought that Assimil would have something, but no...
Could anyone advise me a decent language method to learn Sinhala?
Many thanks!
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Language method for Sinhala?
Re: Language method for Sinhala?
Peruse the following website, which may be of help in furthering your research. In particular, the links near the bottom offer some good immersion resources such as radio.
- "And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting oneself one protects others? By the pursuit, development, and cultivation of the four establishments of mindfulness. It is in such a way that by protecting oneself one protects others.
"And how is it, bhikkhus, that by protecting others one protects oneself? By patience, harmlessness, goodwill, and sympathy. It is in such a way that by protecting others one protects oneself.
- Sedaka Sutta [SN 47.19]
Re: Language method for Sinhala?
Thank you, daverupa. It's a good start point.
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Re: Language method for Sinhala?
It's not a method, but An Introduction to Spoken Sinhala by Professor W.S. Karunatillaka seems to be quite good. There is a PDF version on Scribit, but the scan quality is very low. It's good enough to get a sense of the book though.
Do post back if you find anything else.
Do post back if you find anything else.
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Re: Language method for Sinhala?
Dear BKh,
I found other things on the internet:
On the wikipedia page for the Sinhala language, I found a link at the bottom for the USA Foreign Institute which has a basic course in Sinhala (3 rather large PDF documents).
The SOAS post-graduate course in Sinhala also lists some books:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/courseunits/15PSAC310.html
With all that, I think I can get started.
It's quite interesting to see that it is more difficult to find books or resources to learn Sinhala than to learn Pali!
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Thank you, that looks interesting indeed.BKh wrote:It's not a method, but An Introduction to Spoken Sinhala by Professor W.S. Karunatillaka seems to be quite good. There is a PDF version on Scribit, but the scan quality is very low. It's good enough to get a sense of the book though.
Do post back if you find anything else.
I found other things on the internet:
On the wikipedia page for the Sinhala language, I found a link at the bottom for the USA Foreign Institute which has a basic course in Sinhala (3 rather large PDF documents).
The SOAS post-graduate course in Sinhala also lists some books:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/courseunits/15PSAC310.html
With all that, I think I can get started.
It's quite interesting to see that it is more difficult to find books or resources to learn Sinhala than to learn Pali!
With Metta