In this blog today, we will see what is the best way to learn Malayalam
‘Malayalam’ is a language that can be read from the right to left and left to right the word and it will read the same. By this virtue, it is a palindrome and the only language which is a palindrome. It has been acknowledged as one of the world’s oldest languages that exists since 830 AD. A language that was once spoken in Tamil Nadu’s western coasts, emerges from dialects that combined to produce it. Malayalam is a Brahmic script and is also known as the Kairali script. Malayalam has 16 vowel letters and 37 constants, that’s almost double that of the English alphabet.
The language of Malayalam is one of the most popular South Indian languages and is also considered to be one of the toughest languages to master even for an Indian. With that said, there is also a huge difference between crash courses and professionally curated courses. Crash courses are meant for a completely different purpose and professional courses are also made for a different purpose. Crash courses essentially only teach you the vital details including phrases, sentences, proverbs, words and all of these essential parts of the vocabulary that an individual would require to survive in a situation where they are forced to use that language.
On the other hand, professionally curated courses focus on training the individuals to be able to attempt official competitive examinations in the language and of the language. A professional course is specifically meant for those individuals whose specific intention is to learn the Malyalam for the future, for example for higher studies, job prospects or their career. Since these two courses are completely different from one another and are meant for different individuals in different situations, it is quite difficult to understand whether a crash course is truly worth it or not. Additionally, these two courses also cater to completely different problems and provide solutions for the said individuals enrolled. With that said if you are still interested in understanding whether a Malayalam crash course is truly worth it for you, then guess the same on the basis of your own situation. First, try to understand what are you learning the language for? Are you learning it in order to utilise it professionally or are you learning it because of your plan or travelling?
If you answer yes to the formal question, then you need to focus on enrolling yourself into a professional course and therefore a crash course is completely useless to you. On the other hand, if your answer was yes to the latter, then a crash course it’s actually worth it for you. As, the crash course will easily help you understand all the important points, words, answers to common questions and essential questions that you would need while travelling to any location that speaks a specific language. Taking both of these factors into consideration, you can decide for yourself if a crash course is even worth it for you depending on your own and goal.
The language of the poets and writers can be written without lifting your pen, due to a series of continuous curves that connect all letters in Malayalam. It can thus be compared to cursive writing in English or even classified as an artistic language. Malayalam’s has evolved today with 3 main dialects and almost 14 subdialects can be found with differences in pronunciation, accent, and words that are unique to each dialect and speech style.
