How to improve Kannada listening comprehension
As we all know that Bangalore is the big IT Hub with innumerable foreign companies and that is synonymous with engulfing opportunities. If these opportunities knock at your door and that you are stuck because of inefficiency in Kannada, then I think you should plunge right in! However, I must tell you that there is a great difference between ‘hearing’ and ‘listening’. Thanks to the overload of knowledge in the modern era we are always ‘hearing’ to reply or to answer back as today our reactions have become instant and equally futile. But when we try to ‘listen’ we not only enhance our comprehension skills but also our reactions become rational.
Needless to say that only through listening and comprehending you may learn a lot in Kannada, so let's check out how-
Entertainment- If you go to the Sony Max channel, you will find an array of dubbed South Indian movies full of action and lovely songs. We learn the most when we are happy and to date, I have not met a soul who doesn’t love movies or listening to songs. In fact, Amazon music has a wonderful facility where you can actually read the lyrics of the songs. Kannada has a full-fledged movie industry and lets me give you a list of five movies that have not only been acclaimed but also been remade into different languages- Lucia-Enakkul Oruvan, U-Turn, Ugram, Mr and Mrs Ramachari, Kirik Party and many more. These movies will not only give you a slice of life but also will attract you to the filmmaking styles in Kannada. Watching and listening to the dialogues will enhance your comprehension skills. Though initially, you may start watching with English subtitles and then slowly you may switch the subtitles and listen to them independently.
Hiring a trainer- You may try the Multibhashi app and its wide range of professional trainers who can help you to reach your desired level. Before diving into any language learning, be it regional or foreign, you must be clear about the purpose of your choice. These choices can be of two types- career or pleasure. If it is pleasure or simply travelling as Karnataka happens to be a beautiful state, then any free app will do to learn the basics. But if your purpose is a career, then I would request you to put your best foot forward by investing in a good trainer. Multibhashi has the facility to share your session recording daily with you and also the curriculum is custom-made depending on your requirement. There is transparency maintained at all levels. These online classes are great where you can sharpen not only your listening and comprehension skills but also speaking on a daily basis with a trainer will boost your confidence.
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The local people of Karnataka are quite friendly and a lot of my friends who have shifted to Bangalore for work, have asserted that people love Bangalore not only because of the climate but also the metropolitan culture, where they predominantly speak in Kannada and they speak very good English as well. And this quality can be definitely used to our advantage as you can easily pick up the nuances of Kannada. In fact, Amazon offers podcasts of books of your choice in your preferred language. So in case you have already read an English book, you may choose a Kannada podcast of the same book. To be honest, listening attentively is like meditation where your mind doesn’t wander from one screen to another and if you can achieve this technique ‘comprehension’ will be a piece of cake!
There’s an amazing new way to learn Kannada! Want to see what everyone’s talking about!