3. Antonia Ruppel | On Teaching and Learning Sanskrit

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Antonia Ruppel (LMU, Munich)
about her study and teaching of the Sanskrit language, from elite
universities to the St. James Senior Boys' School, the richness
and diversity of Sanskrit literature, her recent Sanskrit
textbook, and her upcoming series of online Sanskrit
courses.

Speaker Bio
Antonia Ruppel is a Classicist by training who came to
Sanskrit through a series of fortunate accidents. She learnt the
language as an autodidact, and one of her reasons for writing her
textbook, The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit (2017), was to
make the experience of studying Sanskrit easier and more pleasant
for others.  She has been teaching Sanskrit for 15 years at
universities such as Cornell, Oxford and now the LMU in Munich,
Germany, as well as offering courses in variety of formats
online.


Language pedagogy is at the heart of her life, and she is
currently working on an Intermediate Sanskrit Reader. It is
designed to help students gain reading fluency in an enjoyable
and straightforward way, and will come out in late 2021.



Links


SKT 101 | Elementary Sanskrit I (June 1 - Aug 21, 2020)

The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit (2017)

https://oxford.academia.edu/AntoniaRuppel