What can I do every day to improve my Kannada skills?

The Dravidian language Kannada or Kanarese is spoken mostly by Karnataka inhabitants in Southwest India. Spoken by There are more than 56.9 million speakers worldwide, Kannada enjoys patronage from over 43M who speak it as their first language in Karnataka and another 12.9M who speak it as their 2nd & 3rd languages. The language is spoken overseas by Kannada immigrants and in India, it is spoken in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala and Goa. One of the 22 scheduled languages of India, it is also the state of Karnataka’s official and administrative languages. Kannada was the language of some of India’s most powerful dynasties, such as Chalukya, the Rashtrakuta dynasty, the Vijayanagara Empire and the Hoysala Empire.

It is also a language that has seen a lot of history and is deeply connected to the vast culture of Karnataka. It is one of the most popular South Indian languages and holds a lot of value especially for aspirants who wish to work in Bangalore which is the capital city of Karnataka. With that said, Kannada is not an easy language to master especially if you are a native English speaker. Kannada is considered to be one of the toughest languages to master for every English native speaker. Keeping that in mind, there are multiple ways of improving your skills in the language.

Before you plan on improving your skills in the language you need to firstly focus on formulating a strategy that would include achieving logical and sensible goals. After that, you can focus on whichever skill you believe you require more practice with. For example, people who fear speaking Kannada would focus on improving their speaking skills. On the other hand, people who find it tough to read the language would focus on improving their reading skills and finally people who find it difficult to write the language would rather focus on writing skills. But there are many other tips that will help you improve your skills while reducing the time you take to practise each. For example, you can improve your reading and speaking skills by reading Kannada literature aloud.

Or you can improve your reading and writing skills by reading the Kannada literature and also copying it down. You can also improve your listening and speaking skills by watching Kannada videos or movies or listening to Kannada songs or a Kannada podcast and mimicking what they say in either of those entertainment avenues. You can also improve your listening and writing skills by listening to the natives speak in Kannada and noting down all the important and complex words and sentences used by them and then practising those later. There are multiple other tricks that you will realise while you begin to start learning the language. Many times these skills can be overlapped with one another while practising them.

Purava Hale Gannada is an expression Kannada that literally signifies “Old Kannada’s previous form.” It was used in the late Ancient Banavasi, the Satavahana, Chutu Satakarni (Naga) and Kadamba time and hence has over 2,500 years of history. It was believed that the Ashoka Rock Edict discovered at Brahmagiri in 230, also had words that can be identified as ones belonging to the Kannada language.

Words such as nalliyooraa, kavuDi and posil were discovered in several 3rd to 1st century BC Tamil inscriptions. Vowels are not used as an adjective in Tamil but are extensively used in Kannada. Start learning this intriguing language today!