The language of Kannada is as old as 2000 years old Kannada is the only Indian language for which Ferdinand Kittel has written a dictionary. Amogavarsha wrote Kannada’s literature ‘Kavirajamarga’. Kannada claims to be logically and scientifically perfect. Shri Kuvempu, a proud Kannadiga, is the only Indian author with the highest number of awards received for literature. Kannada is the only indigenous language that received the GyanaPeetha Awards.
Let’s now see what you can do if your Kannada class is hard.
To master any language or even achieve proficiency in the language to attempt competitive exams, you have to enrol into professional classes or search for an official teacher or a guide. If you have already enrolled on classes, then you are a step closer To achieve and proficiency in the said language. But this does not mean that you completely forget the concept of practising on your own. We’ve been given this lecture ever since we grew up as kids. Ever since we used to study in school, we were always told that just attending classes and listening to the lectures of our teachers or professors wasn’t going to help us in the long run. We were always expected to do our homework as Study on our own.
This notion stands true even in language classes. You see, no matter how much of your attention that you dedicate in your classes or towards your teacher or even to words your guide, if you do not practise on your own, there is absolutely no point in trying to learn the language. Out of the four skills that you are required to master to achieve efficiency in any language, two of them are completely practical and cannot be mastered without actually utilising them. This means that how much you try and concentrate in your classes if you do not practice on your own, you will not be able to keep up with your classes.
So how do you practise on your own?
Let’s deal with this question skill by skill. First, let’s deal with reading skills as they are the easiest ones to practise on your own. To practise the reading skills you need to focus on expanding your resources and read literature in Kannada or from different authors and different periods. You can also read different types of publications. Secondly, we can move on to listening skills. These are also pretty easy skills to master on your own.
A couple of tips on how to master the skills include listening to Kannada music, watching Kannada movies and listening to Kunda conversations or maybe even a podcast on a topic that interests you. Next up we are speaking skills. These are rather tough to master and require a lot of practice before actually utilising them in real life. You can try reading out loud to 1st get a hang of the pronunciation and then eventually start to speak to yourself, once you are confident enough go ahead and actively participate in conversations.
Finally, we move on to writing skills. If you have collected a good amount of resources and practice your reading skills, then this will be rather easy for you. Utilise the concept of shadowing, which includes copying what you read. Then eventually once you understand sentence formation in grammar rules try writing on your own.
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Kannada phrases have been used in Charition mime, an ancient Greek (2nd century). This Dravidian language, well known as the Kanarese or Canarese, is spoken mainly in Karnataka by the Kannada people. It has the oldest literary traditions of the other four major Dravidian languages. In 2008 Kannada received classic language status from the Government of India. It is clear from the Epigraphs that the language Kannada existed before a millennium and a half. The most ancient literary works reveal that ancient Kannada flourished in the 6th century AD and in the 9th century during the Ganga Dynasty.