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I grew up in Sri Lanka, where you can go to Buddhist schools from grade 1-12 every Sundays, and they teach a fairly good amount of Paali and Sanskrit. Sanskrit
by Ayesh 6y ago
I grew up in Sri Lanka, where you can go to Buddhist schools from grade 1-12 every Sundays, and they teach a fairly good amount of Paali and Sanskrit. Sanskrit itself is not something you learn, but Paali resembles a lot of it to a point that you can walk up to a document from a thousand years ago and still grasp what it means.
I studied only for 4 years, but I'm native Sinhalese, which isn't really that far from Sanskrit.
- yumraj 6y ago> I studied only for 4 years, but I'm native Sinhalese, which isn't really that far from Sanskrit. It's interesting you say that. My native tongue is Hindi, but growing up I had a friend whose mother tongue was Malayalam, and according to him Malayalam was closer to Sanskrit than Hindi. Do you know if there are similarities between Sinhalese and Malyalam?
- Ayesh 6y agoA lot! The script is similar (circles and more circles), and when I watch Malayalam movies, I pick quite a few words.