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Thread on best books + readers to learn Sanskrit. I will list only books I have read & their pros and cons.
1. Samskrita Bharati (4 Part Series)
This is by far the best structured english course to learn to read, speak & write Sanskrit. The material is well-structured.
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This is the second best immersive-learning series. There are 2 parts and progression is gradual. The advantage is it is entirely in Hindi, so the 1:1 syntax + vocab connect for native speakers is instant, Hindi being a daughter of Sanskrit.
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This is an amazing course. The best to learn Sanskrit for Americans/Europeans & an excellent one for Indians to use to learn the western grammar terminology. Best part about it? It is extremley long & has at least 100 pages of Sanskrit.
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This is a recent book, so very updated with amazing font + brevity. The grammar is explained beautifully, but in much more detail than Deshpande's book (down below). Disadvantage? Just not enough Sanskrit reading.
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Video Series: https://t.co/zifnEHWwVJ
This book is great for learning Sanskrit with the traditional western grammar terminology. It is conscise & grammar focused. It is like a handy reference for grammar concepts. Disadvantage? Not enough reading.
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Advantage? It has an accompanying website: https://t.co/PXn11mHCG3 (not run by Prof. Deshpande)
This is the best western course so far. It's biggest advantage? It explains every single grammatical concept in full depth and uses Pāṇinian AND Western terminology. It also has enough readings. (at the end too). I vouch for it.
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The real answer, if you get serious about Sanskrit, you should read them all eventually.
1) Rāmopākhyāna - Peter Scharff
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Some random interesting tidbits:
1) Zuck approves shutting down platform API access for Twitter's when Vine is released #competition
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtqhSTdU4AAJRnB.jpg)
2) Facebook engineered ways to access user's call history w/o alerting users:
Team considered access to call history considered 'high PR risk' but 'growth team will charge ahead'. @Facebook created upgrade path to access data w/o subjecting users to Android permissions dialogue.
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dtqkp_ZV4AA2o2b.jpg)
3) The above also confirms @kashhill and other's suspicion that call history was used to improve PYMK (People You May Know) suggestions and newsfeed rankings.
4) Docs also shed more light into @dseetharaman's story on @Facebook monitoring users' @Onavo VPN activity to determine what competitors to mimic or acquire in 2013.
https://t.co/PwiRIL3v9x
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