Learn Kannada Through English: Lean Kannada Easily

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Language learning, which is a conscious process, is the product of either a formal learning situation or a self-study programme (Kramina, 2000: 27). Language learning begins at birth and continues throughout life. People learn languages as they use it to communicate their thoughts, feelings, and experiences establish relationships with family members and friends, and strive to make sense and order of their world. By learning and incorporating new language structures into their repertoire and using them in a variety of contexts, people develop language fluency and proficiency. Opportunities to learn language occur first at home and it extends as children move into the larger community. Schools provide environments where students continue to develop language knowledge, skills and strategies to achieve personal, social, and academic goals. ‘Languages learning made easy’ is a great contribution made by the present author. It is a huge compilation of languages related rules, structures, and, pictorial presentations. It is a self-study guide for many who aspire to communicate in many languages. One language serves as scaffolding for another language while learning the grammatical rules and structures. Therefore, learners can acquire languages at ease and progress stage by stage with determination. The material also covers several topics related to daily life and living environments. Having gained the basic knowledge of the words related to everyday life, learners would be able to communicate with others without any hesitation. Therefore, it is highly recommended that learners who wish to become multi-linguists must own a copy of it and immerse in joyful learning. Review: A rare book - KannaDa grammar through English - I have not yet worked my way through the whole book, but so far, the book is one of the only ones I have found to explain KannaDa grammar in English (and yes I have been hunting in BengaLuru also for this) and I like the structure of it. Chapters are divided into Nouns, Pronouns, Adverbs, Conjuctions etc.. I have noticed a few spelling mistakes in the Kannada script. I found there is a lack of consistency in the "roman script", for example, for "ತ್ತು", it is sometimes written as "tu" instead of ttu" (when the ottakshara means the t sound is double) & sometimes non-living things plurals are written as "gallu" for ಗಳು when there is no double L sound. It can be confusing if you are still in the process of learning the KannaDa script and rely on this book to learn. Also, it seems the author is writing the ತ as th, in order to differenciate it from the other T ಟ which I have seen in other resources as well, but it can be taken as an "aspirated" t sound which is a totally different letter. (From the beginning my teacher had told me to use small letters for "dental" sounds and Capitals for "palatal" sounds which is how I take my notes now and it helps me then when I need to write in KannaDa script). This book also gives you the name in KannaDa for "masculine" (pullinga), feminine (strilinga) etc which is handy if you want to do some research on the internet for more information (eg. youtube videos). I think this is a great resource whether you are starting from scratch or have done a few Spoken KannaDa classes and you want to work on your grammar. I am grateful to have found this book! Tumba dhanyavadagaLu! Review: A reference guide, not a course - This book presents plenty of useful information, sorted neatly into chapters by grammatical topic. It also includes plenty of example sentences and vocabulary lists. However it is not a book from which a beginner can learn Kannada. There are no exercises, no drip-fed content, no learning curve. No slow introduction to reading, one or two characters at a time. No writing or translation tasks. No means to assimilate all the information at a manageable rate. Memorising the contents of the book might leave you with a good knowledge of Kannada, but that's not how we learn languages. Also there are one or two proofreading errors, including a few mentions of Hindi, a language which does not appear anywhere in this book. Probably a legacy of the template on which this book is based. I'll keep the book for now as a reference, but I'm definitely going to need something else to get me started.