How to get a passion to learn the Kannada language?

Kannada is amongst the 22 scheduled languages of India and the official language of the government of Karnataka state in the southern region of India. It is the first language of the native people of Karnataka and is also spoken by the non-natives settled in the state. Small proportions of populations in the neighbouring states of Maharashtra, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh also speak Kannada. Likewise, Kannada is spoken by the Kannada population settled outside India on various continents.

Kannada might be the first Indian language to have its own official Test of Proficiency very soon, which shall be a standardised test for assessing the knowledge and proficiency in the Kannada language of non-native Kannada speakers, and which shall be internationally or globally recognised as a proof of one’s Kannada language skills.

Also, Kannada, along with Sanskrit, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, and Oriya enjoys the status of ‘Classical language in India’. 

Kannada is a language spoken as the first language in one of the most developed and progressive metropolitan cities and an IT Hub in India – Bangalore. Undoubtedly, English is a business language spoken widely throughout the world, but if you wish to settle anywhere in Karnataka and be at ease while communicating with the locals, may it be while travelling by means of public transport, or while being in a marketplace, or while talking with your neighbours and/or friends, or even while having a good time, talking informally with your colleagues at the workplace, learning Kannada is must!    

Now, if you are planning to move to Karnataka for a few days, or to permanently settle there, or to just visit it for a trip or picnic, it is up to you to either learn the Kannada language by heart or to just mug up on it for the sake of communication.

Get books for basic Kannada

Get acquainted with the letters in the Kannada alphabet with the help of Kannada learning books for beginners. Learn Kannada phonetics with the help of (another language – to – Kannada) dictionary.

Get children’s storybooks

Children’s storybooks are truly a fun way to learn the basics of Kannada or the core Kannada vocabulary. Most of the kids’ storybooks have colourful pictures accompanying the text to make learning interesting for children.

Watch Kannada shows with subtitles

Whether you know the meaning of all words or not, watching Kannada shows with subtitles lets you learn Kannada through the immersion and total physical response methods, as well as enjoy the shows you might like. Now, the shows could be anything ranging from cartoons, cookery shows to debates, news to sports updates, etc. based on your interests. 

Podcasts and videos

Language experts upload podcasts and educational videos to impart knowledge of a language in small chunks. Topics vary from grammar, vocabulary to proverbs, idioms, and phrases.  

Find a conversation partner  

When you find a partner to converse in a new language with, learning the new language becomes all the more interesting. This conversation partner could be your neighbour, friend, colleague or even a sales-person in your regularly visited store.  

The above interesting ways of beginning the journey of learning Kannada help you develop passion for learning the language, and get you even more interested in mastering the Kannada speaking skills. If you wish to learn to speak Kannada as fluently as a native speaker, I have a suggestion for you.

“Enrol for an online Kannada learning course!”

An online course for Kannada learning helps you learn the language from an expert in Kannada. Learning the Kannada language from an expert instead of leaving your passion incomplete by depending on self-learning alone has many benefits. They are as follows:

• Learning perfect pronunciation of each letter and each syllable
• Getting in-depth knowledge of Kannada grammar concepts
• Attaining perfection in writing the Kannada script
• Understanding the nitty-gritty of voice modulation, diction, how to change the sentence format without committing errors, etc.
• Learning how to translate content from another language into Kannada flawlessly

An online language learning course has the following advantages as against training in a physical classroom: 

• An online course can be taken from the safety of one’s home
• Lessons in Kannada can be learnt online from any corner of the world with just a few resources at hand – a smartphone or a laptop, and internet connectivity.
• Audio-visual Kannada learning sessions facilitate real-time interaction between a student and an instructor on-screen just like a face-to-face meeting between the two, allowing the student to ask questions and get the doubts cleared right during the sessions, thereby enhancing the learning process and making it all the more interesting.
• When one finds a trustworthy and reliable conversation partner is a professional Kannada language instructor, chances of one attaining perfection in Kannada speaking skills, and more precisely, in one’s pronunciations multiply manifold.  

So, don’t let your passion die mid-way by depending on self-learning alone; enrol for an excellent online Kannada learning course, with a trustworthy EdTech platform!