Thank you for your wonderfully clear explanations and clear voice so that it's easy to hear and imitate the subtle distinctions among some of these sounds.
This is excellent! Thank you! This is exactly what a serious English-speaking beginner like me needs! :-) Wonderful teacher! Namoh namaha from the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA 🙂
Thank you so much for the video! It helps me tremendously in understanding the pronunciations of the consonants, which I have been struggling with for a while. If it is possible, I would love to watch more videos of Sanskrit learning from you!
The Sanskrit word Plaksha is written also as "Plakṣa" with dot under 's' and "Plaksa" without a dot and without 'h'. It seems that this is one and the same name of a tree. How it must be written and pronounced? With ""sh" as in "shade" or with "s" as in "star"". Are the three forms possible? May be in different regions of India it s different? Is the form ""plaskha" or Plaska possible and what it means?
Apologies for missing your comment. Plakṣa (meaning the Indian fig tree) is pronounced with the tongue curling up - retroflex. Any other pronunciation may be a local variant but is not the Sanskrit pronunciation. 😊
Yes, I do. My classes are free. However I am not starting a new class till sometime next year (hopefully) - unless of course, I get a number of interested people 😀 You can watch my class videos on TH-cam and if you're interested I can send you the associated resources.
I came here trying to understand how to pronounce "rṛ" [रृ] as in "nirṛti" [निरृति]. Firstly, my understanding is that the first r should be a alveolar tap, but when I hear desis speak, it usually sounds like a retroflex tap. Then, the second r has the dot. So, I assume it's meant to be a retroflex approximate. But, I can't figure out how it's possible to do a flap (which involves moving the tongue *down* from the alveolar ridge) and then immediately retroflex (which involves pulling the tongue *up* toward the hard palate). So, I "tap" backward into the retroflex. But I'm not convinced it sounds right. It kind of ends up sounding more like "dṛ." But, I can't find samples of रृ to listen to to make sure. Can anyone help?
@@ramananv1112 Namaste! Words in Sanskrit are pronounced exactly as they are written. So brahma is pronounced bra h ma. I know there are some scholars who insist that it's pronounced bra-m-ha but I have not come across any rule for that. If anyone knows the sutra that says it should be pronounced differently please let me know 🙏
Thank you for your wonderfully clear explanations and clear voice so that it's easy to hear and imitate the subtle distinctions among some of these sounds.
This is excellent! Thank you! This is exactly what a serious English-speaking beginner like me needs! :-) Wonderful teacher! Namoh namaha from the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA 🙂
@@pattyayers Thank you so much for your kind words. Glad I could help ❤️
Agreed😊😊
Tout re explain so greatly the prononciation. Specialy for me as 1 french people never used such kind of sound. Thanks you
Awesome teaching style 🙇🏻🙏🏻
iam a south Indian yet faced difficulties in pronouncing correctly, thank you mam for your heart to share your knowledge to the wide world
You are most welcome :)
Such a great teacher.. Namaste from India...
Super video
Very nice
Really splendid, I had the problem in consonants, now I am quiet ok.thanks lot mam.good effort keep it up
Thank you. Please share the video because there are a lot of people who struggle with pronunciation. 🙏
Very Helpful for beginners
Thank you 🙏
Excellent
Excellent video. Thank you very much, this was a big help
Excellent !! I have learned the pronunciation.. Thank you very much Madam..God bless you..
Thank you 🙏
Gratitude 🙏, This video is a life saver,
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Very good teaching , how to continue this course?
Thank you for your encouragement 🙏 I will soon be uploading lessons. Please watch this space.
Great gratitude....
Thanks so much for this wonderful video. It helps me a lot...
Thank you so much for the video! It helps me tremendously in understanding the pronunciations of the consonants, which I have been struggling with for a while. If it is possible, I would love to watch more videos of Sanskrit learning from you!
Thank you! You can watch the videos of my online classes for this year on my Playlist called Samskrtam 2022
Hare Krishna Mataji, thanks alot for such a nice video, it has really helped me alot.
@@dheerajsingla7189 Thank you !
Thank you for this video, I am trying to learn Sanskrit writing and pronunciation before getting a Sanskrit tattoo and this was very helpful!
Good luck with your tattoo 😊
Thank you. . waiting for next video.
Thank you 🙏
Thanks for this lecture
You are very welcome 🙏
Thanks for this video, I was very confused about the pronunciation of ज्ञा (jñā). You explained it perfectly. I hope more people can find this.
Amazing class ma'am, I am so grateful for this, bless you 🙏🌺
Thank you for this veru useful lesson ! :)
Well taught!Liked your teaching style!!!
Thank you 🙏
excellent!!!
Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much 😊
svagatam 😊
The Sanskrit word Plaksha is written also as "Plakṣa" with dot under 's' and "Plaksa" without a dot and without 'h'. It seems that this is one and the same name of a tree.
How it must be written and pronounced? With ""sh" as in "shade" or with "s" as in "star"". Are the three forms possible? May be in different regions of India it s different?
Is the form ""plaskha" or Plaska possible and what it means?
Apologies for missing your comment. Plakṣa (meaning the Indian fig tree) is pronounced with the tongue curling up - retroflex. Any other pronunciation may be a local variant but is not the Sanskrit pronunciation. 😊
Hello, do you offer online private/group classes?
Yes, I do. My classes are free. However I am not starting a new class till sometime next year (hopefully) - unless of course, I get a number of interested people 😀 You can watch my class videos on TH-cam and if you're interested I can send you the associated resources.
Thanks 🙏
Thanks a lot.
Thank u so much
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I came here trying to understand how to pronounce "rṛ" [रृ] as in "nirṛti" [निरृति].
Firstly, my understanding is that the first r should be a alveolar tap, but when I hear desis speak, it usually sounds like a retroflex tap. Then, the second r has the dot. So, I assume it's meant to be a retroflex approximate.
But, I can't figure out how it's possible to do a flap (which involves moving the tongue *down* from the alveolar ridge) and then immediately retroflex (which involves pulling the tongue *up* toward the hard palate). So, I "tap" backward into the retroflex. But I'm not convinced it sounds right. It kind of ends up sounding more like "dṛ." But, I can't find samples of रृ to listen to to make sure.
Can anyone help?
nir-rti . रृ
@@rram421 Thanks, but it doesn't help. I'm trying to understand the phoneme, not how it looks when written. Know what I mean?
How to pronounce Brahma in Sanskrit.
@@ramananv1112
Namaste! Words in Sanskrit are pronounced exactly as they are written. So brahma is pronounced bra h ma. I know there are some scholars who insist that it's pronounced bra-m-ha but I have not come across any rule for that. If anyone knows the sutra that says it should be pronounced differently please let me know 🙏
Thanks
Mataji I’m from Hare Krishna school
honestly this is not horribly hard. even though I can't hear the difference in some cases, at least I can say them and not feel like a complete idiot.
The running subtitles in Roman script are horribly misleading. ट वर्ग (ta varga) became Toe worker!
Great video! I just wish there was IAST translation also. I'm trying to figure out the difference between ṛ and ṝ. Thank you! 🙏❤️🙇
Thank you so much 💓