There is a good section on WikiPedia on the Sanskrit Language. Check out the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_language

Lots of information to give anyone a good background and understanding as well as links to many resources on Sanskrit.

Below are some of the useful links you can find informations at:

* Online Sanskrit Dictionary
* Spiritual Sanskrit-English Dictionary
* Sanskrit Documents Documents in ITX format of Upanishads, Stotras etc. and a metasite with links to translations, dictionaries, tutorials, tools and other Sanskrit resources.
* Free Sanskrit Word Processor: Madhyam developed by Balendu Sharma Dadhich
* Sanskrit fonts and Sanskrit texts
* GiirvaaNi – Sanskrit Classical Literature with translation
* The earliest dated illustrated Sanskrit manuscript in the world
* A list of Chinese words originated from Sanskrit
* Monier-Williams Dictionary – Searchable
* Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary: DICT & HTML Downloadable Versions
* Monier-Williams Dictionary – Searchable Digital Facsimile Edition Freeware CD
* Monier-Williams Dictionary – Printable
* Samskrita Bharati
* Sanskrit Studies, Links and Information
* pAnini’s Grammar and Computer Science
* Ethnologue’s Sanskrit report
* American Sanskrit Institute
* A brief Sanskrit Glossary Lists commonly used words in spiritual writings
* Tranliterator Transliterates from romanized to Unicode Sanskrit transliterator.
* Sanskrit Translations
* A Sanskrit Tutor
* Sanskrit & Sánscrito Sanskrit language, Yoga, Indian philosophies, blog, names, names of hatha yoga postures, Directory of Free Sanskrit Links, translations and much more (English-Spanish).

I came across an great Sanskrit (Devanagari) font which works quite intuitively. You can download it from here:

http://www.kofibusia.com/level_1/GetFonts.html

I was just playing around with it in OpenOffice and noticed that the keys are quite intuitive. For example the “k” key gives me “ka” in Devanagari and if I type “shift-k” then I get the shortened “k” as in consonant combinations. A “k shift-u” gives me a ku (with long u) in Devanagari. All the keys seem quite intuitive in this way.

All makes sense really.

For the Wellpark Sanskrit 2 students, here is a copy of the Sutras that we have to learn as part of the module. Four Yoga Sutras and the three Guna Sutras. They can be downloaded from here:

Sanskrit Sutras

The MP3 Files starts and ends with with the Sanskrit invocations we say before and after class (which we are not required to learn). The file is about 5 Mbytes in size so will take an hour or so to download via a dialup connection.

Thanks to Barbara for making this available.