About my Family (Spoken Sanskrit) मम कुलस्य वृत्तान्तः

[putti8935]

superb!!! even i cnt speak like that

[andree1991]

not even close to European languages

[realguitarshredder]

very nice.. this makes me want to learn sanskrit. I tried once after I was very influenced by the ramayana. I ordered a sanskrit-hindi book for it. read some parts but never got through completely cause of my job... you have inspired me to learn it again.

[reva12]

Oh, forgot: Mama kevalam ekaa patni asti. Good one.:)

[reva12]

Brought back memories: My father was a Sanskrit fanatic and he and the Sanskrit pundit next door used to actually sit and talk in it in the evenings. He had my wedding invitation printed in the language (giving it pride of place over Tamil, our mother tongue).

Had 7 yrs of it in high school. Can read/write in it and recite a few declension tables now. It sure gave good enunciation practice: Today when I speak Bulgarian, people are surprised that I can say the words with "spashtam". :)

Thanks.

[mccomassanskrit]

@reva12 thanks for the feedback :-)

[mccomassanskrit]

@reva12 thanks for the feedback :-)

[lemaindeuday]

Okay, so depending on how it ends, the locative case changes. For example, for Bangkok, it'll be Bangokay; if it ends with 'aa' like Praha, it would be "Prahayaam", i.e., "aham prahayaam vasaami". If it ends with "consonant ee", it becomes half consonant iyaam (, i.e., "aham syndnyaam vasaami" for sydney). In your case, Monte Grande, where Grande being large (fem.) for French, it doesn't end with an 'e' sound at least in the French pronunciation. So, it would just be Monte Granday.

[shekh9910331]

its great to see you sir....

I am an Indian but i can't speak Sanskrit...,,it hurts,,

[tngodncr]

Hahahah...."mama kevalam ekaam patni asti" :-)

You are good!!!!! Keep it up!

[indian12american]

this is greattttttt. sanskrit is truly the most beautiful language ever

[usadesigaru]

Great to see you made these great videos. God bless you.

[mccomassanskrit]

Hi there - is Monte Grande a city? (Pardon my ignorance)

If so, you can just say मोन्ते ग्रन्दे नगरे वसामि

[Dh4m13l]

Amazing!! One question, how do you say "I live in Monte Grande?" I'm confused because my home town already ends in "e" sound... so if I change it to locative case nothings happens? And if the place is "El Jagüel"? Should I say एल् हगुएले वसति ??

[smrutikale30]

namo nam:

etad drushtva mama mahan anand: jaat:

aham bharatat australiam prati atanartham agata. atrapi sanskritam vadant: bhavat-sadrusha: jana: santi iti jnyatva santosh: jat: - Smruti

[mccomassanskrit]

धन्यवादः

[LordHighXcutioner]

@mccomassanskrit: You speak a heavily accented Sanskrit, but irregardless your proficiency in it is truly admirable!

[smrutikale30]

namo nam:

etad drushtva mama mahan anand: jaat:

aham bharatat australiam prati atanartham agata. atrapi sanskritam vadant: bhavat-sadrusha: jana: santi iti jnyatva santosh: jat:

[gopalcu]

Iam born and living in India and also studied a bit of sanskrit as a first language in high school l(thirty years ago),yet I cant speak sanskrit so clearly as you do.When I heard you do that, it feels Great!

[ankitbond001]

I feel so good that I understand everything in this video !

Sanskrit was my language till high school but slowly and slowly its fading away from my memory :(

[Nejiboud]

That was great, good luck to you!

[RGSAN1985]

All the best! I liked the Pronunciation Sir! [good]

When you said you have only one wife, I think you were proud of that, really nice ! :)

[MaBu888]

@ramboram03

He looks like some of em too. :)

& retroflex are in Polish too :)

[handitwater247]

Have You Lived In India?

[MaBu888]

I am without hat this day. Ego sum sine capella hodie. Verbatim [werba:ti(m)].

Aham...

[shankyxyz]

mama, kevala eka patni asthi...lol.

[paulkrist44]

STUDY OF LANGUAGES, IN ADDN.TO ONE'S MOTHERTONGUE, CAN HELP TO BROADEN ONE'S OUTLOOK OF HUMAN CIVILISATION AND DEVELOP AN ADMIRATION FOR THE MIRACLE OF ONENESS OF MANKIND - DESPITE SUPERFICIAL DIFFERENCES INCLUDING SPEECH - THRU A COMMON THREAD OF UNIVERSAL AATMAN (SOUL) . STUDY OF SKT. AND ENGLISH (MINIMUM) AS CURRICULAR OR EXTRA-CURRICULAR ROUTINE WILL HELP ONE WITHDRAW FROM WASTEFUL ACTIVITIES. GOOD PROFICIENCY IN SKT. WILL SHARPEN ONE'S PERCEPTIONS. SHUBHAM ASTU. (May good occur to all !)

[MarjorieBakre]

Many top notch thinkers/scientists -Erwin Schrodinger, Robert Oppenheimer, >> Albert Einstein, Arthur Schopenhauer, to name just a few - learntSkt although due to research preoccupations, they could not find time for its intensive study, resting content with translations. Schrodinger was inspired in his wave-particle discoveries by Advaita Vedanta (with its core statements woven round "Sarvam khalvidam brahman"). Skt grammea many of them believed was an excellent exercise for rigorous thinking!

[MarjorieBakre]

Generations of Buddhist scholars and even perhaps some of the faithful Buddhism followers, in India, China, Japan, Korea, and other countries in the East, have learnt and written in Sanskrit, and many of their works as their rendering in some of the languages of the East - Chinese,Japanese,Korean, Sinhalese, etc., are still available and are subjected to deep study. It follows from this that, attaining of a good level of proficiency, even perhaps a thorough mastery, of Sanskrit shdn't be hard.

[paulkrist44]

@MarjorieBakre Why Buddhism only - Buddhism is of course a widely practised religion, nowadays even appealing to the West. Jain scripture and texts also use a form of Sanskrit.Besides,most Indians belonging to different linguistic rgions too use Skt  for daily prayer. India's languages will be without backbone, and become grossly deficiency in flesh and blood, if they have to do without Skt words as they use from 65 to 90% outright Skt terms,only without inflexsions for case ending and verbs.

[infinitylord08]

First i love your videos!

Second: i brought a book with sanskrit grammer. I says that gacchati can be translated as he goes. does this mean when conjugating a verb do you need to the pronoun it conjugates with?

[mccomassanskrit]

@infinitylord08 - thanks for your kind words - no, you don't need the pronoun - it is quite optional

all the best

McC

[infinitylord08]

@mccomassanskrit thank you!

[ajha55]

@infinitylord08

Aham amrnath ast, aham ameria desh, finix nagre sparibare basami.

[coolgalshagun]

@infinitylord08 gachhati defines the person as in "gachhati" refers to some 3rd Person( 3rd person acc to english grammar-he,she)...to define the gender u DO need to pronoun it.

he goes-sah gachhati

She goes-saa gachhati

Hope I was able to xplain!

[vijishellboy]

wow, great sir. I learned sanskrit in my school, know the basics, out of touch now, what interested you to learn sanskrit ? what is it you like the most about it?

[parasrr]

Tvam sushthu Sanskritm vadasi

[modelface00]

hi i was wondering can you write

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different

in sankrit for me and post it i really want to get that tatto on my hip so please help me thankss

[naresh28666]

And Austria was astriya means a place where arms were used oftenly. You can see the role of Austriya in world war I and world war II. Russia was rishiya meas a place for rishi. Arv in Sanskrit as you might know is a place for keeping the horses (stable) in modern world is Arab.

[naresh28666]

hi maccomass,

To see you talking in Sanskrit is really a great thing of surprise. Even being an indian i am unable to talk in Sanskrit as you do. I would like to tell you something about vedic culture which was wide spread on the whole earth and Sanskrit was the only spoken language. The world Australia was Astralaya in ancient time mean a place for keeping arms and amunition, it means the Australiya was a place for testing of arms in ancient time. The proof of it is the baron land of Aus.

[SuperSam990]

Well Done brother...

From India

[Rastoi89]

I have just started learning sanskrit, but I have some "feeling of speech", I would say. Anyway - couldn't you speak more naturally? It sounds like somebody who is reading words from a dictionary. I don't mean to offend you - I'm just a stupid beginner, and you seem to be close to mastery. I just hope my remark will be useful to you.

Greetings from Poland.

[ShalomSarahMorgentau]

you are awesome . why dont you sing it though ?

; ) x

[shrinidhiku]

watch your pronunciation of the sanskrit word for "reading".. Sir. It sounds like the sanskrit word for "falling"

[GeatishBeowulf]

I speak Hindi and Punjabi, and can understand parts of your Sanskrit. I'm currently studying Anglo-Saxon texts (particularly Beowulf) and other middle English texts like Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde at UBC Vancouver. I can not help but notice the striking similarity of meter (for example, in Beowulf) in Anglo-Saxon, Old English or Frisian writing and the meter in the Sutras (e.g. Gita Upanishad) written in Sanskrit. Your comments?

[yeashas]

mamma naama yeashas.. aham bangalore nagareh vasami.i dont know sanskrit !!!!!!!!still learning....

[Kubangpasu]

kuluvarga - family?

[rasmeykh]

Уважаемые господа mccomassanskrit! Я приехал из Камбоджи. I am very appreciated with your Sanskrit knowledge. And how you can speak any language?

[mccomassanskrit]

Thanks for your kind words

[patilcn1]

I salute you sir,for your proficiency in Sanskrit.

It is really impressive that you acquired a foreign ancient language so well.I am a Indian now living in US.I can understand Sanskrit (~ 85% mainly because of Vocabulary problem),But can't really speak it so well.your effort demonstrates that nothing is really impossible.

[nellers85]

which one of these means "family?" I'd really appreciate it

मम कुलस्य वृत्तान्त

[mccomassanskrit]

kula = family

[whois4tlas]

In the devanāgarī script it is written कुल

[itsbitu]

@nellers85 kula=clan

[NepalmyPride]

I am 19 year old Nepali boy and now living in UK. Nepali language is believed to be originated from Sanskrit so I am really keen to learn Sanskrit. Does anyone know if there is any Sanskrit class being taught in London?

[Aryavartan]

perhaps at a University

[NepalmyPride]

thanks for your reply, I have found institute in London where I can take Sanskrit classes.

[christusfactusest]

internet?

[balumuthu]

Mahodaya! aham bAlakrshnoSsmi bangaloora mahAnagaravAsI. prathamata: souhardapraNAmAn bhavadbhya: arpayAmi. devabhAshAyAm bhavanta: esham sva-kula-vrttAntam atha eva itaram pakshNo vAnaraScha iti video-clipa-dvayam drshtvA, SrutvA ateeva santushtoSmi. vAgdevI bhavadbhya: sampUrNata: anugraham dadAtu, viSeshata: antarrAshtreeya-sauhArdArtmaka­m devabhAshA-dvArena adhika-mAtrayA vividham kartavyam kartum. DhanyavAda: .

[mccomassanskrit]

प्रियमित्र

सादरं नमो नमः

भवतः वचनं पठित्वा प्रसन्नो 'स्मि ।

तत्कृते कोटिशः धन्यवादः ।

इति भवदीयः

मक्कोमस्

[discouniverse]

Sanskrit-Lithuanian language

bhuda=bunda,buda;bhutis=būtis;­Vešpats=Viešpatis;Devas=Dievas­;viras=vyras;mata=motė;

sunus=sūnus;duhita=duktė;švašu­ras=šešuras;dantas=dantis;

ansa=ansa,ąsa;ašru=ašara;padas­=padas;javas=javas;madhus=medu­s;

sanas=senas;asmi=asti;esmi=est­i; and so on

[mccomassanskrit]

Dear friend - is it true that the Lithuanian still preserves a dual? Could you give some examples? e.g. one man, two men, three men. I'm fascinated

[Indranilusa007]

McC Mahoday,

Bahu samiche, Aham api Sanskruta Bhaasha Chhatra asti. Aham Irvine Nagare, America dese vasatu. Mama varge ekadasha chhaatra santi.

Dhanyavaadah,

Kishorerah

[mccomassanskrit]

कोटिशः धन्य्वादः

[adigro2000]

this is amazing. im an indian-american and i cant even do that. hats off my man

[Koolguy0409]

i just burst out laughing and could not control myself when you introduced your wife... i feel proud that not only are you gramatically perfect but also very witty in sanskrit... congratulations... :o) satya

[mccomassanskrit]

I am a humble student.

McC

[freedom729]

May I suggest that all those eurocentrics learn thirty lines from a vedic passage and all of the indiacentrics (for want of a better word) learn thirty lines from either the Iliad or Ovid? This is in the hope that we might all get along a little better with a bit more mutual understanding.

[freedom729]

Could someone please explain to me why every discussion of this language leads to a pitched battle in the comments section? The author of the video is impressive, his delivery is good and yet the viewers seem more interested in backbiting. Anyone who has tried to do anything with any ancient language should be rightly impressed - and slightly humbled - by this and similar videos.

[maknam]

I live in Brisbane....I feel so small infront of you...Iam a Hindu...but never bothered to learn Sanskrit...though my language malayalam is full of Sanskrit words...!

Good job!

[cundionfire]

in my opinion i think hindi is a crap language. sanskrit is such a beautiful and pure language. I am knanayan indian. My ancestors came from syria but my people speak malayalam because we travled to kerala from syria. I think thats why i appreciate sanskrit so much beacause dravidian languages adopt a lot from sanskrit. thats probably why most dravidian languages are much more "complete" languages. what i mean is that hindi is somewhat fractured beacause it uses english instead of sanskrit

[patilcn1]

Original Hindi is very close to Sanskrit. but present day hindi is adulterated with english and Urdu words due to 300 years of Mughal Empire rule on India.On the other hand for most of the period (except last 75 years ) Mughal empire never really expanded towards southern india(states like Keral, Tamilnadu, Karnatak part of Andhrapradesh and Maharashtra) hence these languages managed preserve lots of words directly retrieved from Sanskrit or Prakrit (a dialect of Sanskrit).

[iitzeus]

You are wrong on many counts. Hindi (and every other prakrit) were always corrupted (apabhramshit) forms of Sanskrit speech.

Urdu and Hindi are not considered separate languages in linguistics. The distinction between them is primarily political (& to an extent cultural), not scientific.

Words don't "adulterate" languages. Languages borrow words from all over the place. Sanskrit too borrowed and Sanskritised many thousands of foreign words from the early Vedic period to late Classical.

[gupta5882]

Really amazing. I'm so impressed watching you speak the God's language. Really good work Sir..

[polyphemes]

Really? Hm, chuck this up to ignorance from my part, then! :-) I had no idea. Thanks for clarifying, I'll look into it. Do you realize how big the difference is between your reply and that other guy's in terms of politeness and general benevolence? ...

[chintu24]

Good work Sir!

[cundionfire]

yea no shit that non-indians are preserving the language because the indians dont care about sanskrit and continue speaking hindi which is going to become useless in the future. if sanskrit doesn't come back then in like 10 years all indians and probably pakis will be speaking only english

[gupta5882]

ur right cundionfire Indians really don't have respect for Sanskrit. They feel proud speaking English. Also they have doubts and differences speaking their own mother tongue Hindi. It disappoints me..

[cundionfire]

to be completely honest u know that sanskrit is an indo european language which it was the aryan indics who spoke it. they were white and brought the language to country which had been inhabited by the dravidans

[Gubdown]

1st white men tried to destroy it...and when they know litle abt sanskrit they are the preservers??? LMAO!!!Moron!

[girishchalke]

!! Omm !!

That's fantastic.

I know little bit of sanskrit. But i can understood what you just said.

[carnaticmusic1]

tava calaccitram drastum ativa tustosmi. jalantare (mama shabdah 'internet' iti sabdasya krte) adhikani calaccitrani sthapayatu. dhanyavadah!

[mccomassanskrit]

priya-mitra

namo namaH . bhavataH pattraM prAptaM paThitaM ca . tat kRte dhanyavAdaH . ataH param aham adhikAni calacitrAni sthApayiSyAmi . bhavAn kutra bhavati . kiM kiM karoti . saMskRtabhASAM paThati pAthayati vA .

iti bahavdIyaH

McC

[Gubdown]

Really???? THEN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHO DID TE PRESERVING FOR THE LAST 5000 YERS???? Moron.

[polyphemes]

It was those white morons that came to India some 5000 years ago... so unless you're Dravidian I'd be careful about bashing 'white trash' -- Sanskrit is an Indo-European language, the language of white Aryans. I suggest you do some research before getting into unfair generalizations.

[Gubdown]

Weouhahahahahhaa!!!! WEOUHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHAHHAHHA­HAHA Look whos telling me to do better research! weouhOEUHHAHHAHAHAAHAHA. There is nog such thing as WHITE ARYAN punk ass moron bitch. You sound like a muslim.

[polyphemes]

I'm glad my comments make you laugh.

What makes me laugh even more is the thought that I would get into an online flame war with a person like you over this. You seem to have more serious issues you have to deal with, before that. And no, I'm not a Muslim. That's the last you'll hear from me on the matter.

I apologize to Mr McComas for this to get out of hand like this. I appreciate people diving into new cultures, broadening their horizons. That's why I particularly enjoyed this video.

[Gubdown]

I guess you dont want to go in war with me cause you know ur gonna eat the dust right on the floor.

1st of all: White people need to apoligse to India.

2nd: Aks ur mom who ur real dad is.

3th. Tell ur sister the truth that ur her father.

4th. Ask ur father why he is fokkin a donkey.

5th of all. India rules.

[thepedomo]

@polyphemes

stop reading that max mullers garbage... Sanskrti had nothing at allll to do with europe

[RajaRaju999]

That was Great McComas. I live in India and I feel very inspired by you to take the step and learn Sanskrit.

In this day and age its unfortunate that many people can't grow beyond region, race, religion, and other boundaries to protect this wonderful human inheritance.

Kudos to you.

[mccomassanskrit]

Dear Friend

Thankyou for your encouraging words

McC

[314159265352]

Awesome... you are good at sanskrit. Keep it up. After seeing this, I have guilt feeling of not being able to speak this beautiful language.

[Gubdown]

That is not the wyay to speak Sanskrit. You should sing it in some way. But u did a good job for a white trash who descents from whit poop that destroyed India.

[3Phoam]

LOL! You're quite right. What you mean by "sing it" has a special term: scansion. You have to know Sanskrit metrics to do that. It was Indians who created Sanskrit to preserve Indian culture in scriptures, rather than orally, as had been the case during thousands of preceding years, and proper scansion was instructed in the scriptures as a fundamental means for that preservation. So FYI, Gubdown is right.

[Gubdown]

thnx man. White people think that if they know a little sansktriet...they are the protectors/preservers of all and all knowing.

[tcporco]

what a tiresome yet amusing little racist; why don't you come up with something that's actually worthy of the high ideals one sees in much sanskrit literature and philosophy; be glad people from around the world are interested in Sanskrit and the richness of its literature. Small, bitter, hateful ideas like racism will die.

[tcporco]

(a reply to gubdown)

[Gubdown]

why should i be glad that people from around the world are interested in Sanskrit and the richness of its literature??? That is not my problem., If they like it or not...I know what Snanskrit is and what its worth. I dont need regnition fro people around the world for that.Me a racist??? If ur a white man: READ THE HISTORY!

[kafirpandit]

Cool !

[jam421]

awesome

[sdgupt]

wow...pretty impressed...!

[dbca999]

Wow. Hats off to you. I wish I could speak Sanskrit that fluently. Although I learnt it in school days in India most of us just did to score marks and crammed it and passed the exams without getting into details of learning grammer. I can only translate some verses but cannot compose any sentences. Sanskrit is THE language of philosophy

[BingoJck]

Wow amazing..You are master!!! How do you know Sanskrit.. looks your pronounciation seem to be perfect..

[mccomassanskrit]

dhanyvAdaH

[ragman2008]

bho ...samichiram

samsritam gnyatum iccha asit va?

samichiram..

[mccomassanskrit]

dhanyavAdaH (I think)

[sutra46]

Lets see, you live in Canberra the capital of Australia, work in university, teach Sanskrit. Your son studies mathematics, one daughter studying science in Melbourn and your younger daughter is in 11the grade? Your one and only wife is a librarian? Is that right? Nice to meet you :-)

Maccomas would you please tell me where did you get the software for the Devnagari script?

[mccomassanskrit]

priya-sutra46-mahodaya

namo namaH

sarvaM zuddham . You are perfectly correct. Thanks for your kind words. I use Itranslator, but there must be a better way!

McC

[sutra46]

Shubha Prabhatim McC, you have inspired me to pick up my books again. I can understand conversational Sanskrit and study esoteric verses regularly, mainly in translation.

Hope to write to you in couple of months! Thank you for the tip on itranslator, will give it a try.

Please tell us more stories ☺

[mccomassanskrit]

aam aam - evam bhavatu

iti bhavadIyaH

makkomas

[vjaytrivedi]

I can give you a software

[sutra46]

Thank you but

How would that work? sorry not very techno savvy. How will you pass it on to me without knowing my contact details?

[vjaytrivedi]

If this is the case then you start working on a Hindi font.I dont need your conact details and you need not to be a techno savvy person for this font.

[LithiumDarklight]

I've learned clasic sanskrit,and I've translate some of the Samkhya verses in Romanian language thanks to my theacher Florina Dobre. I also learned Hindi and some bengali...

Mama nama Neacshu Ion asti. Aham romania rashtrya asmi.  Namaskaraha

[mccomassanskrit]

dhanyavAdaH

[LithiumDarklight]

As the great Rshi Ishvarakrsna wrote in Saamkhya Kaarikaa about knowledge, sanskrit is full of it.

Purushaarthajnaanam idam guhyam paramarshina samaaakhyaatam /

Sthityutpattipralayaash cintyante yatra bhuutaanaam //69 //  Samkhya Kaarikaa

[LithiumDarklight]

I didn't know that australian people would be enterested in sanskrit!

Samskrit bhasha is the most beautiful language,nuch more beautiful than greek,and it is full of knoledge

[KOOl061]

sanskrit is almost similar to nepali language.

[Ealasaid17]

I never understood a word but it sounds good!

[vkk393]

mama nama venkata asti, aham dwaita bramhana asti,sanskrit bahu kathinamasti, tarhi ek sulabhopayam vadati. pls help me in learning sanskrit more... thx lasatu sanskrutam chiram gruhe gruhe cha punarapi...

[mccomassanskrit]

प्रिय-वेङकत-महोदय

साद्रं नमो नमः। भवतः पत्त्रं पठित्वा प्रसन्नो ऽस्मि। संस्कृतभाषापठनाय यत्नं कर्तव्यम्।

इति भवदीयः

मक्कोमस्

[iitzeus]

Venkat, you seem to be using the third-person singular tense when talking about your own actions. That is grammatically incorrect.

Eg. Aham dwaitaha brahmaNaha asmi.

And try not to use phonetically incorrect transliterations like 'sanskruta' and 'gruh'.

[wearepack]

"asmi" is the first person (English way of phrasing it) meaning "I am." Its listed as 3rd person in Sanskrit, but still refers to the speaker.

[PKPMom]

As an Indian living in the US, I'm embarrassed to say that my kids can't even pronounce simple Sanskrit mantras without a funny accent. I'm not sure I can say it as well as you do.

[MaBu888]

Estonian, my home language has 14 cases (used for nouns and adjectives) , words are not inflected in gender, we have no genders in the Finno-Ugric language family. The verbs have only 4 "times" if I could call it that. The verbs have a greater amount of irregular forms, but structurally they are usually as "hard" as Russian or other IE languages (they are conjugated in all persons). A very difficult (for forigners), highly inflected non-indoeuropean language.

[avanwell]

Australia-देशीयो भवान्। हन्त। मत्स्थानादतीव दूरम्। Australia इति संस्कृते महालंका इत्युच्यते।

एतद्दृश्यश्रव्यप्रकाशनेन ध्यनोऽसि। अहमपि भवत्तुल्यः संस्कृतानुरागी।

(दृश्यश्रव्यम् = Video)

[sj6288]

By the way, mama naam Sudhirum asti.

[mccomassanskrit]

Dear Sudhirum

Thanks for your note and your kind words. Most inflected IE langauges have verbs that are inflected for person, but unlike Hindi and Marathi, not for gender. Generally participles are inflected for gender, case and number.

With best wishes

McC

[sj6288]

Thanx for these videos. I have spoken Indic IE language (marathi) all my life. I dare say your sanskrit pronunciations are excellent. To digress, Indic languages are highly inflctive where verb changes not only with tense and number but with gender and person. Are there any other IE languages where verb changes with gender?

[Arissef]

Hello,

Russian past simple tense inflects for gender:

bil (m), bila (f), bilo (n)

These are actually derived from ancient Slavic participle and is therefore not the original IE past tense. Originally, proto Indo-European must have had no gender for verbs. All verbal forms (noteble exception: participles) which have gender emerged later.

[sj6288]

Thanks! :)

[1slowdriver]

May I ask what resources you use to learn the language?

[mccomassanskrit]

Dear Friend

For Spoken Sanskrit, I strongly recommend Pandit Dr Sanadanda Das's courses at Heidelberg University. For textual material, I recommend T. Egenes, Introduction to Sanskrit.

Yours

McComas

[S172142230149]

very good , i am fascinated for ur passion for sanskrit, well done, keep it up

[mccomassanskrit]

Thanks for your kind words.

[kurydebarcelona]

bravo!

[revan012]

выглядит трудным учиться?

[mccomassanskrit]

Это не трудно, если вы любите ее.

[asj4name]

Its really commendable that you can speak Sanskrit so very well. It seemed very funny when you said that you have only ONE wife. I wonder how many of your visitors actually understood this. Anyways, it was very nice to hear this language being spoken from a foreigner.

[mccomassanskrit]

Thankyou for your kind words

Yours

McC

[rasmeykh]

Imaani aham ajjhayanati Pali, Russian ca Khmer purāṇam. You can read this in Pali? I am not good yet in Sanskit. But I will try to study Sanskrit... :)

[biribiribambao]

sounds owful no wonder it is done away with and left only a bit in languages. How owful to have to speak that way and make ones tongue work so hard to find the words

[mccomassanskrit]

Dear Biri

It is not as owful as you might think!

Your friend

McC

[iitzeus]

Haha ! Many people think the same about Chinese too. Notwithstanding, there are 4-500 million (or more) native speakers of Mandarin.

To every native-speaker their language is the easiest to learn in the world. The native speakers of Sanskrit would've thought the same :-)

[sharekmahtaya]

its so peer to lithuanian and latvian!!!

[worldishome]

wow, very nice.

[bhartha2007]

Amazing, he was so polite and cracking a joke in the middle was awesome. mama namah bharathaha, bhawa sanskrutha bhashey parinithaha. namasthey.

[iitzeus]

Your 'th's are wrong. The /t/ in Bharata isn't aspirated. So 'Bharatha' is wrong, as is 'Namasthey' and all other words where you use 'th' instead of 't'.

Secondly, the name of the language is properly spelt 'sanskRta', not 'sanskruta' or 'sanskrita'. The /R/ is the same as in Rshi or Rg-Veda or Rta. The closest approximation to what it actually sounds like would be the present-day American (rolling) 'r', i..e the 'r' sound with the tongue curled upwards.

[imkan125]

listen to lithuanian speech and compare it with sanskrit speech, you will find good phonetic similarity.

[muthushiv]

hare ram! I really admire you Professor. Great! I wish to be your pupil

[sp0076]

hey....cool!...i kind of understood what you said, but wont be able to speak confidently like you

[student4eternity]

that is awesome...a foreigner speaking our own language so well..

[mccomassanskrit]

Thanks for your kind words of encouragement

[NEELAELISABET]

can someone please translate?

[NEELAELISABET]

Anyone knows what he is saying?:)

[rkcts]

All of my friends ,

Namoh namah ( greetings ) to you

Here, I am going to tell you something about myself and my family.

My name is Machurmus.

I am residing in Australia, I reside in Canberra city. Canberra city is is capital of Australia country.

I teach Sanskrit language in Australia university I have got a son who is studying in Melbourne university. He is studying Bijnaanam ( ??) mathematics.

[rkcts]

Continued from previous reply:

I have got a daughter who is also studying in Melbourne university is studying shanam ( ??)

I have got also other daughter , she is also studying in 11th standard in the university.

I have got ONLY one wife, she is doing a research work with me in the university.

This is details of my clan, will meet you soon.

PS: Professor , please correct me if I am wrong.

Regards

RK

[mccomassanskrit]

priya-mitra

sAdhu sAdhu

kevalaM doSadvayaM bhavati - mama putraH vijGAnam paThati - putrikA jGAnaM paThati

iti bhavadIyaH

McComas