This was my first introduction to Pali. It's a great way to get you started and here is why: First of all, it is pretty concise - while there are other tomes with endless detail on grammatical stuff, this book is short and to the point. It gives you a great overview over the most important and essential grammatical ideas to get you going. This helps your motivation as you are basically able to get a pretty good grasp of Pali in just ten lessons. Secondly the book uses actual words of the Buddha as teaching material. Thus you are not working on "artificially constructed" sentences but right from the very first chapter you start delving into the Sutta Pitaka. And finally each chapter lays the foundation (in vocabulary and grammar) for the next - so you are gradually increasing your skills. By the time you are reading the tenth lesson you basically covered all Pali grammar and are just reading an original text from the Samyutta Nikaya with the help of a dictionary. After having said all this, you will probably have to continue with other grammar books later on to cover some of the concepts featured in this book in more detail. Oh, and one other nice feature: The publisher set up a website for their audience where you can listen to the lessons and download audio files - for free.