World’s best way to learn Kannada
Kannada language, also called Kanarese or Kannana, member of the Dravidian language family and the official language of the state of Karnataka in southern India. Kannada is also spoken in the states that border Karnataka. Early 21st-century census data indicated that some 38 million individuals spoke Kannada as their first language; another 9 to 10 million were thought to speak it as a secondary language. In 2008 the government of India granted Kannada classical-language status.
Kannada is the second oldest of the four major Dravidian languages with a literary tradition. The oldest Kannada inscription was discovered at the small community of Halmidi and dates to about 450 CE. The Kannada script evolved from southern varieties of the Ashokan Brahmi script. The Kannada script is closely related to the Telugu script; both emerged from an Old Kannarese (Karnataka) script. Three historical stages are recognised: Old Kannada (450–1200 CE), Middle Kannada (1200–1700 CE), and Modern Kannada (1700 CE–present).
Coming to the world's best learning method! it remains the same for each language with so many learners swearing by it!
In my opinion, the world’s best method to learn a language is Travel immersion. It is a method, learners all over the world swear by for all and any language to learn. And Kannada is no exception. All you have to do is to take a job transfer, accept a new job in Bangalore or take admission into a college or university of your choice to learn the language, pack your bags to stay at that place for a minimum of six months or a year. However if this approach seems to have an overwhelming effect on you, due to the cultural shock or create anxiety to think that you would soon land up in a new country/state, and be unable to express yourself or ask for something due to the language barrier, then we suggest for you a classroom base immersion method which could be complete or partial.
The classroom method ensures that you do not have to travel across the world to learn a language and you can do so from within your comfort zone. In the full immersion training method, all the classes are conducted strictly in the target language and students are provided with notes or CDs as a reference to follow and understand the lesson and context better. However, in the partial immersion method, the lesson is conducted in the target language but it is also explained in the commonly used language of the country.
Talking to a conversation partner from your neighbourhood or online via Tandem, mylanguageexhange.com, conversationexchange could do wonders for your Kannada learning. Speaking the language is the best ever choice if you wish to learn a language faster. You could choose to select conversation building words and phrases, conversation connectors and fillers to build your vocabulary and transfer them to flashcard apps like quizlet.com you could use podcasts such as ivmpodcasts, player.fm audiobooks, various online audios, various online videos, online Kannada playlist from Spotify, take help from Omniglot.com all of these could be the real solid resources to build up your Kannada language.
Looking at the segregation of languages done by FSI USA, Kannada would probably fall in group 4 of languages that are not quite related to English. An 1100 or greater number of hours is needed to learn the language to a decent level. Dravidian language speakers have a greater chance to learn Kannada in a shorter period of time, much lesser than 1100 hours since Kannada is quite similar in grammar and literature to them.
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There are millions of people across the world learning this new language despite its adversities and complications. They are giving it their all to learn effectively. You could learn from the many ways they are managing to fit learning Kannada in their schedule, trying multiple ways to get effective learning. Try each possible method to pick up Kannada faster if you aren’t able to learn it in the world’s best way of immersion!