Malayalis tend to be strongly proud of their language with nearly 45 million native speakers. Malayalam has a global spread, with speakers living in nearly every part of the world that make up the huge Malayali diaspora. It is a local well-known joke that, you may find a Malayali even on the moon! Malayalam has a uniqueness that makes the language different from other countries in the region by its script, sound and vocabulary. There’s a lot to explore in the language apart from the history of its development to the dialects, words and nasal tones.
Let’s now see what you can do every day to improve your Malayalam skills.
There are four different skills that an individual is required to practise now to achieve proficiency in every single language including in the language of Malayalam. These four skills are speaking skills, reading skills, writing skills and listening skills. In my opinion, one of the major ways that you can learn a language is by enrolling into classes. But just when rolling into classes or maybe even searching for a teacher to guide you through the process of your language learning journey, you automatically will never become proficient in the language. Every language requires you to actually put in a decent amount of effort and contribute an equal amount of time. Therefore you obviously have to practice a lot, every single day along with your classes in order to truly master every single aspect of the language.
So, what can you truly do in order to improve all of these four skills as well as practice while attending your classes? The answer is pretty simple. You see, practising all four of these skills on their own is actually not as tough as you might have thought. If anything, it’s actually pretty fun. For example, in order to practise speaking skills, you just simply have to utilise the language when you actively participate in a conversation. Sounds easy right? This works with listening skills as well. In order to practise your listening skills, you just simply have to listen, very carefully to what is being said to you. Slowly internalise it and interpret it on your own. Moving on to reading and writing skills. Reading skills requires you to gather a decent amount of resources. The resources must be valid to your language. You can also collect resources from different time periods and by different authors. If you have collected a good amount of resources, writing skills wouldn’t be as tough for you either. You can start off by practising the shadow technique, which includes copying what you read.
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It is the only language in the world, that is a palindrome in itself. A popular belief upheld that between the 9th-13th centuries the Malayalam language evolved from the middle Tamil language and until long it was only known as a western coastal dialect of the Tamil language. However, another set of scholars strongly believe that Malayalam never originated from Tamil, instead, both Malayalam and Tamil developed from a ‘Proto Tamil-Malayalam’ language, believed to be a common ancestor.