Two-way Learning.

Learning Sanskrit with any other  Language.

In this way, I learnt two languages together, -one of them the Sanskrit.

Basically, the proper and the right way of learning any language what-so-ever is to learn in the same way, as one learns own mother tongue.

A language is kind of conditioning. The new name for this learning is : N. L. P., The Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Learning any language what-so-ever is learning the structure of the language, how a set of phonemes is formed and how this generates a "spoken word".

A spoken language is learnt by practice and effort made involuntarily without knowing how any "word" is associated with its meaning, which too is either a sense - abstract or indicating a material  and tangible object known through the sensory perception. However, sensory perception is primarily without a word - non-verbal.

It's only for human beings that we learn associating a word for any specific and particular object or feeling. But all the beings do have feelings, though hardly a word associated with a feeling. However may develop their own language based upon the primal sounds. For example the birds and other animals too express and understand a very few particular words uttered by their own kind. But they don't have a well-developed language like us, the humans.

A Rishi  ऋषि  like a Patanjali पतञ्जलि, or a PANini पाणिनी, explored and discovered and could observe, how the voice (संस्कृत √वच् ) meaning the sounds transformed into the spoken and meaningful words gives rise to language howsoever crude or refined.

Having observed this, he further tried to find out if any underlying pattern could be discovered to justify how the spoken word is related to meaning.

This was how they found out the स्वनिम्  - spoken and the रूपिम् - figurative - the written letters in the sound and also in the descriptive forms : in the audio and the visual forms.

Because any of the human language is basically dependent upon the spoken syllables -वर्ण, they could tabulate their findings in a systematic form or chart : say a "matrics". Evidently this word : the  "matrics" too is a cognate of and derived from the Sanskrit word  : 

मातृका or the वर्ण-मात्रिका : Or, the matrix of letters. a Therefore any word in any of the human spoken languages could be found out to be related to some Sanskrit word in essence. devi atharvasheerSha देवी अथर्वशीर्ष and SkandapuraNa स्कन्द-पुराण  clearly elaborate how in the matrix of letters all the letters are devatA / देवता who are conscious elements and one can approach them in one's own body itself. Just because pronouncing these letters by a man has the two elements of PrANa and consciousness as the components. In this way a mantra uttered knowingly or unknowingly attains once connects one to them. This is the very simple basis for performing the Vedika rituals such as a  yajna / यज्ञ. When this is done knowingly it's impact could be realized too. This is in no way deals with the question if the God is one (the monotheism) or not one (the polytheism). This  sphere of Vedika devatA is called the Adhidaivika and is a direct link and a bridge between the man and the devatA / Supernatural Kingdom.

Here we are trying to understand how the two language-patterns evolved out in the first place. Let us check this with the help of a few words :

The Sanskrit verb-root  √कर्ष is used to indicate "pull" and three words formed from this are : अपकर्ष, उत्कर्ष  and निष्कर्ष .

A Hindi / Urdu word "कर्ज़" and another  "खर्च" could be the related to the same whereas an English word "curse" also conveys the same sense.

Spoken language is voice  वाणी /वातृ  and is also symbolic of "Water"and air  वात. 

Water and air are the two elements in the basic 5 elements. Water has tendency to go downwards, while water vapor in the upward direction. 

The Voice  वाणी  also like this goes down or upwards. The upward is called  उत्कर्ष  while the downward is called  अपकर्ष. 

उत्कर्ष  gave rise to the Sanskrit and the  अपकर्ष  gave rise to prAkrita.

PANinI पाणिनी  and Patanjali discovered the grammar of Sanskrit while prAkrita grammar was dependenr on the various  conventions at different places.

Learning two languages together helps us understand the basic structure of a language. Then we can relate a word in a language to another in Sanskrit. Another subtle point is the script. The scripts of many languages resembles greatly with the Devanagari script. That again points out that scripts of these languages have something common with the Devanagari script. How the various scripts evolved in the first place is also an evidence not to be ignored.

Conclusion.  

Today I watched this interesting video about Sanskrit.

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