Lesson 7

Beginning Prayers:

• शुक्लाम्बरधरं विष्णुम् - shuklaambaradharaM viShNum
• सरस्वति नमस्तुभ्यम् - saraswati namastubhyam 
• गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णुः - gururbrahmaa gururviShNuH 

Topic Summary:

• Revision of writing swarayukta vyanjana-s 
• More verb vocabulary

Home Work:

•  Revisit verbs list, practice writing them with meanings

Topic Details:

It is not enough to know the rules to write, but reinforcing the learning and constant revisiting becomes essential.  In this lesson, we write and practice the swarayukta vyanjana-s for different consonants. Check swarayukta vyanjana-s list. 

More additions to the verbs list.  New verbs learnt, new meanings comprehended. 

भवति
अटति
गायति
चरति
चलति
जयति
जपति

Make sentences with the new verbs for first, second and third person forms, with the I, you, he/she pronouns, along with understanding the meanings.

Ending prayer:

•  ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदम् - aum pUrNamadaH pUrNamidam

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Lesson 6

Beginning Prayers:

• शुक्लाम्बरधरं विष्णुम् - shuklaambaradharaM viShNum
• सरस्वति नमस्तुभ्यम् - saraswati namastubhyam 
• गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णुः - gururbrahmaa gururviShNuH 

Topic Summary:

• Writing samyuktaakShara-s
• Making short sentences

Home Work:

• Practice writing sentences

Topic Details:

Writing samyuktaakShara-s  has paved way for learning more sentences.  Cannot emphasize enough about practicing!

भवतः नाम किम्?
What is your name? (when asking a male)

भवत्याः नाम किम्?
What is your name? (when asking a female)

मम नाम .....।
My name is ...... (There will be no gender difference in 'my' obviously :).

भवान् किं लिखति?
What will you write?  (when asking a male)

भवती किं लिखति?
What will you write?  (when asking a female)

अहं पाठं लिखामि।
I will write a lesson.

भवती कुत्र गच्छति?
Where will you go?  (when asking a female)

अहम् उद्यानवनं गच्छामि।
I will go to the park.

Make more such sentences with the verbs learnt.  Building vocabulary thus will pave way to making little conversations and also being able to comprehend little shlokas, subhaaShitaa-s, etc.  Most important is, practice!

Ending prayer:

•  ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदम् - aum pUrNamadaH pUrNamidam

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Lesson 5

Beginning Prayers:

• शुक्लाम्बरधरं विष्णुम् - shuklaambaradharaM viShNum
• सरस्वति नमस्तुभ्यम् - saraswati namastubhyam 
• गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णुः - gururbrahmaa gururviShNuH 

Topic Summary:

• More examples of making syllables
• Verbs revision
• Make simple pronoun and verb sentences

Home Work:

• Practice writing the alphabet
• Write sentences for all the verbs learnt so far

Topic Details:

Writing the samyuktaakShara forms for त-वर्ग, प-वर्ग and अवर्गीय व्यञ्जन (य thru ह) are done in this lesson.  Those that do not have the ending vertical line are written with a small slash on the bottom, as in, ट्, ठ्, ड्, ढ्, etc.  Check samyuktaakShara list for the same.

There are a few special representations for some combinations that appear often in the language.  They are

क् + ष = क्ष 
त् + र = त्र
ज् + ञ = ज्ञ 

We will deal with र् in the next lesson.

Verbs are put together with pronouns to make little sentences.  The words for I, me and he can make sentences with the 3 different verb persons we have seen earlier.

अहं - I
त्वं - you
सः - he

Example sentences would be

अहं पठामि
त्वं पठसि
सः पठति

अहं लिखामि 
त्वं लिखसि
सः लिखति

अहं वदामि 
त्वं वदसि
सः वदति

Try making such sentences with the rest of the verbs learnt so far.

We shall learn more sentences in the next lesson.

Ending prayer:

•  ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदम् - aum pUrNamadaH pUrNamidam

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