If you intend to learn Malayalam be informed that you are opening doors for your own knowledge and enlightenment.
You stand a chance to learn more than what you ever knew about the language, its culture and the age-old traditions of this classical Indian language.
The language Malayalam is not only a palindrome but it is an amalgamation of two words – ‘mala’ meaning mountain and ‘alam’ meaning place. It is an apt combination of these two words. Malayalam has a permanent influence from these languages with the arrival in Calicut of the Portuguese and Dutch traders. Therefore, it has borrowed many words like Almirah from Portuguese, which means cupboard and chaaya. Before Malayalees had it, Malayalam sure made its way around the world.
Let’s now see how you can get out of the fear of speaking the Malayalam language after learning Malayalam.
Out of all the four skills that every student is expected to master in order to achieve proficiency in any language including the language of Malayalam, most students find it rather tough to master their speaking skills and writing skills. This is simply because both of them are extremely practical in nature and therefore practising either of them is rather tough. Apart from being tough, there are other factors that also affect the practicality of mastering the skills.
With that said, it does not mean that an individual just cannot master the skills. It is next to impossible for you or any other individual learning any language to achieve proficiency in the language without actually mastering either of these impertinent skills.
Keeping this in mind, you must wonder how you would master your speaking skills, and if you were to master speaking skills how would you get over utilising them in real life in regards to the language of Malayalam?
In order to get over your fear of speaking Malayalam, you simply need to speak the language. There is no grand methodology of getting rid of the fear of speaking any language except speaking that language. It’s pretty simple and basic.
Of course, you don’t have to utilise the language in real life. If you’ve already mastered the reading and listening skills, then you would have a good grasp of your grammar, sentence formation and of course a vast vocabulary.
You can utilise all three of these factors to your advantage while practising your speaking skills. Furthermore, there are multiple ways of mastering your speaking skills and getting over your fear of speaking the language, without actually utilising it in real life.
Some of these methods of practising your skills on your own are:
Firstly, you can read out loud and try speaking to yourself. Reading out loud is pretty self-explanatory, you simply need to read aloud while reading any literature in Malayalam. This will help you get used to the pronunciation and the complex vocabulary used in different types of literature.
And of course, speaking to yourself is one of the most common methods of getting over your fear of speaking any language as it helps you build confidence and master the language at the same time. You can also try speaking to other students or teachers who would understand your inexperience in speaking the language and instead help you get better at it.
Other than this, you can also record yourself speaking in order to figure out any mistakes that you make while practising language and once you are confident enough you can actively participate in a language held in Malayalam.
Finally, hope this blog would have served some purpose to lead to your endeavours of learning Malayalam
Without lifting your pen in between you can write any letter in Malayalam. In simple words, a series of continuous curves connect all letters in Malayalam. It is the language of art! The Malayalam script is also known as the Kairali script and has a total of 53 characters, 16 vowels in 37 constants. Phew! Twice as much as the English alphabet!