Learn Sanskrit In Selangor Malaysia.

Reading Devanagari script.

In most books we would find examples for each  alphabet in Devanagari script.
For example: अ for अश्वः (horse)

Ok..so what happens?
We get a bit stuck here because अश्वः has conjunct consonants and it slows down our reading process if we are a beginner and absolutely new to Sanskrit.

When we were in kindergarten we learnt A for Apple B for Ball ..just imagine if we had learnt A for Anastomosis and B for Ballistics! God knows what would have happened to our learning process.

So what do we do?

We should keep it simple when we are starting.

So the best is to first try to read words that do not have conjunct consonants so that the mind learns to identify stand alone free letters.
Sadly most books use words that have conjunct consonants right away.

So lets read a few words that do not have conjunct consonants yet teaches us some vocabulary for each alphabet.

We start off with vowels:

अ   - अग (immobile)
आ  - आकाश (sky)

इ - इति(thus)
ई - ईडा (praise)

उ -उदकम् (water)
ऊ -ऊरुः(thigh)

ऋ -ऋषिः(rishi)

ए -एडका(sheep)
ऐ -ऐरावतः(airAvataH..name of the elephant of Lord Indra)

ओ -ओघः(flood)
औ -औड(moist/wet)

अं -अंशुकम्(shirt)


So these are a few examples of easy reading of words without conjunct consonants and more would be taught at Sanskrit Classes at Putra Heights Subang Jaya.

Also Cut Copy and Paste Technique to write Conjunct Consonants would be taught at classes where one does not need to memorize writing techniques but just understand the technicality in the Cut Copy and Paste method.