/guide is complete. Seeking testers for a new Sanskrit tool

[Learn Sanskrit]

/guide is complete

Our beginner's guide (learnsanskrit.org/guide/) is complete. By "complete" we mean that the guide covers all of the main areas of Sanskrit without major omissions or gaps. Updates about our guide will become less frequent, but we will continue to refine and improve our guide behind the scenes.

Our guide compares favorably to any of the standard English-language Sanskrit textbooks. But unlike those textbooks, our guide emphasizes acquisition through content and has a much stronger theoretical and pedagogical basis. Therefore, we recommend it for anyone who is learning Sanskrit grammar through English.

As we develop our Sanskrit tooling, we will continue to push the boundaries of how Sanskrit grammar is taught. And speaking of tooling, here is our next project:

Pandit: a digital Sanskrit expert

We are creating "Pandit," an all-in-one lookup tool that explains what Sanskrit expressions mean and how they are formed.

For example, if we give Pandit a word like "कुर्वन्ति," it will do the following:

- analyze कुर्वन्ति as the third-person plural present tense parasmaipada form of कृ. Terms like "third-person" or "present tense" will be linked to a lesson in /guide that explains the concept further.

- display the dictionary entry for the root कृ according to the standard Sanskrit-English dictionaries.

- generate all of the verbs we can create from the root कृ.

Pandit is under development. Currently, it is a standard dictionary that can also understand unprefixed verbs. Even so, we believe that Pandit is already a breakthrough tool that will make it substantially easier to look up words and understand them. And over time, we are confident that it can understand a variety of Sanskrit words and expressions and explain them in a simple and user-friendly way.

If you want to help us test Pandit, please reply to this email (and feel free to suggest a better name).