The course at a glance
DURATION / TIMINGS
- 30 hours of live teaching
- about 3.5 months
- 2 classes a week, 60 minutes each
WHERE / HOW?
- Live on Zoho Meeting, from anywhere
- Batches capped at 10 students
- Every class recorded for revision
ELIGIBILITY
- Anyone can join
- Some Sanskrit helps, but is not required
- Popular with yoga teachers and chanters
COURSE OUTCOME
- Hold a real conversation in Sanskrit
- Speak with confidence, not just translate
- Understand shlokas and pronounce them correctly
Taught by one of 77 people certified in spoken Sanskrit that year
Plenty of people can read Sanskrit. Far fewer can hold a conversation in it, and fewer still have been examined on exactly that.
NPTEL “Elite” grade: Basic and Intermediate Spoken Sanskrit
A 12-week proctored course run by IIT Kharagpur under NPTEL / SWAYAM, the Government of India's national online education platform. Ms. Parikh was awarded the “Elite” grade with 72%, and only 77 candidates in the entire country were certified on that course.
It is the rare credential you can check for yourself rather than take on trust: Roll No. NPTEL21HS03S14020668, verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
📖 MA (Acharya) in Sanskrit
Central Sanskrit University, completed 2023, under the Ministry of Education, plus a three-year Sanskrit diploma from the University of Mumbai.
👩🏫 A trained teacher
Two one-year teaching diplomas, one passed with Distinction, and several years in Mumbai classrooms before moving online.
👥 Batches of 10, never more
You cannot learn to speak a language in a lecture hall. The cap exists so every student talks in every single class.
Why we teach speaking before grammar
Most Sanskrit teaching starts with declension tables. You memorise the seven cases, then the ten lakāras, and somewhere around month four you can parse a verse but still cannot say “where is the water?” out loud. Many people give up before the language ever becomes usable.
This course inverts that. You speak in the first lesson, badly at first, which is exactly right, and the grammar arrives underneath the speaking, as an explanation of something you are already doing rather than a wall to climb before you begin.
It is how Sanskrit was actually taught for most of its history, and it is why the saṁbhāṣaṇa approach has revived the language in speaking communities across India. Grammar still matters, and it is all here, it simply follows speech instead of blocking it.
If you have tried Sanskrit before and stalled in the grammar, this is the course built for that experience.
Course Curriculum
How progress is measured
Small batches mean every student's work is actually seen. Nothing here is automated. Ms. Parikh marks it herself.
| What | How often | What it checks |
|---|---|---|
| In-class speaking | Every class | Fluency and willingness |
| Recorded task | Weekly | Pronunciation and construction, returned with notes |
| Listening test | Modules 2 and 5 | Sound discrimination |
| Conversation assessment | End of Modules 3 and 4 | Sustained speech |
| Final assessment | Week 15 | A ten-minute conversation, plus recitation |
| Written report | End of course | Level reached, and what to work on |
What it costs
One price per 60-minute session. It comes down as the group grows.
3 modules of 10 sessions · 30 sessions in total
Every session is 60 minutes, live, and recorded for you. Worksheets, marked work and a certificate of completion are included. How often you meet is arranged with you, around your timetable and ours.
Frequently asked questions
Also taught by Ms. Parikh
If you are learning to speak Sanskrit, spoken Hindi comes remarkably easily, the two share a script and a great deal of grammar. Taking a second subject? The second subject’s sessions are 15% off.
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