Introduction:

Kannada is the language of India’s oldest literature and with speakers of about roughly 50 million people across the globe. Interest in learning Kannada by other language people has grown nowadays as Bangalore has grown to become the IT capital of India.

Why can’t you understand Kannada?

Learning a new language may be a hard part for everyone when starting the language.

In this blog let’s further explore why learning Kannada seems a bit difficult.

• Difficult in Kannada alphabets

If you start with the alphabet, you will be able to sound out unfamiliar words, then you do not know what they mean and what a word means.  This can be a big problem for you, especially when you are trying to converse with a native speaker.

The Kannada alphabet consonant has an inherent vowel. These vowels are noted by marks placed above, below, before, or after the consonant. Here the vowels are only written as independent letters if they come at the beginning of a syllable. But similar to English letters are written from left to right in horizontal lines.

• About the Kannada script

In Kannada, the script is tremendously different, but the consonant sounds are pronounced roughly the same way as their counterparts in English. There is no soft version of letters as there is in English especially the letter C.

The sounds in Kannada are often not equivalent to English because the sound is made with a different part of your mouth. You have to mimic native speakers in order to get your pronunciation right.

• Double consonants

You have to practice double consonants. In addition to the individual consonants, Kannada has totally 6 double consonants. The most difficult part is that these consonants are not pronounced the way you will be expected in similar to the combination of letters to be pronounced in English. There are also near-equivalents that you can use to practice.

• Work more on pronouncing 

You need to work more on pronouncing to learn the correct vowel sounds. There are 16 vowels in Kannada. Excluding the two blended vowels, each of these vowels has a short and long version. 

For the longer version, you need to simply hold the sound out longer than the short version

• Conversation in Kannada

You may feel difficult to understand everything if someone is asking you in Kannada, but you may be able to get a general idea if you recognize the basic question words. 

At first, understanding what type of question they are asking may be difficult and but you might be able to infer the rest from context.

• Being politeness during a conversation

In Kannada, you should use polite and respectful words with people when you talk to them, especially those older than you. Similar to other cultures, being polite and respectful will endear you to strangers.

• Conclusion

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