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Why aren't you learning Sanskrit yet, /lit/ ? Do you even
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Why aren't you learning Sanskrit yet, /lit/ ?

Do you even like literature ? Don't you care about your Indo-European heritage ?
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it's on my list. after russian.

i've been told the Aṣṭādhyāyī, the grammar thing, is amazing
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>>7501181
What methodology do you plan on using for starting learning Sanskrit ?
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>>7501197
i have a system. i just find a hopefully interesting professor willing to teach 1 on 1, then I relocate to where they live and study or work nearby for a couple years.
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Do you really want to be "that white guy who's really into hindu everything (but not really)"?
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>>7501310
hippy hindus are gay as shit but orientalist philologists who develop theories of white supremacy based on indo-european heritage are next level patrish
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>>7501310
im not white, and i don't particularly like hindu culture, i just like learning languages
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>>7501164
I hope you already know English, Classical Greek, Latin, Hebrew, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, Danish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Arabic - if not, your priorities are seriously fucked up.
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Concern with English language lineage and indo European heritage doesn't necessarily lead most directly to Sanskrit lel
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>>7501310
>who is Schopenhauer
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I'd prefer to learn Pali first so I can read the Tathagata's words in something close to the original, after that maybe Sanskrit
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>>7501164

Because I'm learning Russian and German instead. Might try Czech at some point too.
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