The cards

Carry it in your pocket.

Every letter, word and sentence in the workbooks is also a flashcard — twenty-eight decks, 707 cards, free. Nothing to make and nothing to type: the decks are already built, in the same order the books teach, so a card only ever asks for something you have already met on a page.

The class is Sanskrit — The Siṃhī Workbooks. One link opens all twenty-eight decks; study in a browser or in the Brainscape app, on any device.

How to use them

Study the deck that matches the pages you are on, not the whole class. A deck is small on purpose — four decks carry a whole workbook — and the cards come back on their own schedule, a little today and a little again in three days, which is how the books already work: nothing is met once.

Say every card out loud. A card you can see but cannot say is not learned yet, and the sounds are read aloud for all of them at The Sounds.

Workbook One The Sanskrit Alphabet 4 decks · 178 cards

The forty-six sounds, the words each one carries, and the cast of the books.

  • 1.01The Garland — Read the Letter46
  • 1.02The Garland — Find the Letter46
  • 1.03Each Sound, Slowly — Letter Words62
  • 1.04Names and Rhythms24
Study these decks ›
Workbook Two Sanskrit Sounds and Shape 4 decks · 80 cards

The vowel signs, the three marks, the joined letters, and the first six words.

  • 2.01The Vowel Signs20
  • 2.02The Three Marks6
  • 2.03The Joined Letters48
  • 2.04The First Words6
Study these decks ›
Workbook Three Sanskrit Words at Work 4 decks · 79 cards

The eight garments, the one whole sentence, and the first two rungs of the ladder.

  • 3.01The Garments18
  • 3.02The vākya in the Earth9
  • 3.03Speaking the Ladder, Stage 0 — The floor24
  • 3.04Speaking the Ladder, Stage 1 — Being-vākyas28
Study these decks ›
Workbook Four Sanskrit Sentences 16 decks · 370 cards

Twelve nights, one deck each, and the ladder from Stage 2 to Stage 5.

  • 4.01Night 1 — Sarpa’s Dream28
  • 4.02Night 2 — Kūrma’s Dream22
  • 4.03Night 3 — Mūṣikā’s Dream20
  • 4.04Night 4 — Vāsuki’s Dream22
  • 4.05Night 5 — Bhīma’s Dream22
  • 4.06Night 6 — Pakṣikā’s Dream22
  • 4.07Night 7 — Kālī’s Dream22
  • 4.08Night 8 — Karṇa’s Dream24
  • 4.09Night 9 — Garuḍa’s Dream22
  • 4.10Night 10 — Abhimanyu’s Dream20
  • 4.11Night 11 — Kṛṣṇa’s Dream24
  • 4.12Night 12 — Sāvitrī’s Dream22
  • 4.13Speaking the Ladder, Stage 2 — Doing-vākyas32
  • 4.14Speaking the Ladder, Stage 3 — Yesterday24
  • 4.15Speaking the Ladder, Stage 4 — The garments at work28
  • 4.16Speaking the Ladder, Stage 5 — iti16
Study these decks ›

The workbooks themselves — where the sounds are met, traced, read and written — are at The Workbooks.

The workbooks The sounds The series

A little, often, and back again.