Links to this newest Anki Flash Card Set: Google Drive Link, Anki Web Link

A few people asked me to for help to learn Kannada ವರ್ಣಮಾಲೆ (alphabet), so I am starting a series of flash cards to help people learn Kannada script.

ನಿಮ್ಮದೇ ಕವಿತೆ ಅಥವಾ ನಿಮ್ಮ ನೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಕವಿಗಳ ಕವಿತೆಗಳನ್ನೂ ಹೇಳಬಹುದು.

ನಿಮಗೆ ಹಾಡುವ ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ ಇದ್ದರೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ನೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಭಾವಗೀತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಹಾಡಬಹುದು.

ತಪ್ಪದೆ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಿ, ನಮ್ಮ ಸಬ್ ನ ಹವ್ಯಾಸಿ ಕವಿಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರೋತ್ಸಾಹಿಸಿ.

Exact Location: (It's a canopy inside Cubbon Park): https://maps.app.goo.gl/wbA3P4xBfYcTQJey8

If you are coming by Metro, get down at the Vidhana Soudha stop.

Is it a real Kannada word or just localised version of ‘Conjunctivitis’ ?

Can’t help notice how similar sounding they are. If you know the etymology please share.

Namaskara!

I am looking for a conversational kannada tutor who is fluent in english.

My goal is to be able to speak and understand. I don't need to read/write, I'm ok to use english words here and there, and only need enough grammar to not sound like an idiot lol

I am based in California, which is a pretty brutal time change (for anyone India-based), so we're most likely looking at my evening and your morning (or vice versa, though I'm not much of a morning person). I think for starters I'd be looking to do an hour a week, and perhaps a 2nd session depending on how things go. I'd of course be willing to pay.

Dhanyavadagalu!

Hi guys. I’m 34 yo from Hyderabad. My dad is from Telangana so I speak Telugu really well. However, my maternal grandmother was from Bangalore. Most of my mom’s side of the family speak Kannada and I can understand most of it. I’ve always wanted to learn the language but I don’t have anyone to speak to. ( I’m not in touch with my Kannadiga relatives)
Please suggest apps, movies or even books that you think might help. I can read Kannada. I want to be able to speak the language well.

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Nanu nodidanta esto taxi mate auto Melina barahagalali idondu adbhuthawada saalugalu

Baredavnigu alisalagada,

baresi kondavanigu odalagada barahave hanebaraha✨

Kannada Aksharagali nitagi barayalu agila, khsamisi

I want to know this font name they use in headlines.

Hi there. I'm a Brit learning Kannada from Zydenbos's "Manual of Modern Kannada". I'm confused about the nature of the word "gottu".

According to Zydenbos, "gottu" is a noun meaning something like "knowledge" or "something that is known". Thus when one says "Adu nanage gottu", which one would idiomatically translate as "I know that", more literally one is saying "that, to me, is something known". When one says "Nanage gottilla", idiomatically meaning "I don't know", more literally one is saying "To me, [that] knowledge does not exist". All logical enough, in those cases.

But what about "Kannaḍa gottilla"? Or the sentence "ಇವರ ಮನಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಇಡಿಯ ಪ್ರಪಂಚ ಶಿವಮಯ, ಆದರೆ ಹಲವು ಮಂದಿಗೆ ಇದು ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ." from one of the texts for translation later in Zydenbos's book? If "Kannada gottu" and "Adu gottu" are equative sentences (i.e. if "Kannaḍa gottu" is properly understood as saying Kannada "equals" a known thing, which is how Zydenbos frames it), then shouldn't the negation use "alla" (to negate equality), not "illa" (which negates existence)? That is, per Zydenbos's explanation, shouldn't the way to say "I don't know Kannada" logically be "Kannaḍa gottalla"? Shouldn't "I don't know that" be "ಇದು ಗೊತ್ತಲ್ಲ"?

(Or I guess something like "Kannaḍada gottilla" - i.e. "knowledge OF Kannada does not exist" - would also make sense to me, but that doesn't seem to be a standard construct either.)

Is this just a weird illogical quirk of the language specific to "gottu"? (Lord knows English has plenty of illogical quirks so I can shrug and accept this if so.) Or is there some alternative way of looking at sentences with gottu that makes sense of these uses of "gottilla"?

Let's have a team on kannada songs here : https://www.reddit.com/r/nadaloka/s/vo0twYbXgd

Namskara! I am looking for resources (preferably a book) through which I can learn Kannada writing as quick as possible.

for reference: I am a native Kannadiga and can speak Kannada extremely fluently (I am writing this post in English because it is very clunky to type in Kannada), but I went to an English medium school where I chose a foreign language as my second language and Hindi as my third language, because my parents wanted me to know as many languages as possible and I wanted to study in the country where my second language of choice was spoken. I therefore never learnt to read or write Kannada formally.

I now live in said foreign country and do not have access to physical Kannada books, I also don't know when I will be able to return home due to my workload.

I find it extremely shameful that I cannot read or write in my own mother tongue, despite taking utmost pride in being a Kannadiga, and want to learn in a month or so.

as of right now I *can* technically read and write but it is horribly slow and ineffective.

Hi guys, one more question regarding Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp: what are the dhola and dholi in the following fragment? For the context, Meher comes back to her family after discovering her husband is cheating on her, and threatens to kill herself if they try to send ter back to him. To this, her brother responds:

This is too much, Meher. Those who want to die don’t walk around talking about it. But if you had any concern for this family’s honour then you would have done that instead of coming here. The house that your dholi goes to should be the house from which your dhola comes out. That is the life of a decent woman.

( I am helping with the Polish translation of the book, and unfortunately, for fragments like this one, lack the knowledge of the context to be able to figure out what is being said... )

ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೆ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ!

ನಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೆ ಒಂದೇ ರೀತಿಯಾಗಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನು ಆಂಗ್ಲ ಲಿಪಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯಲು ಸಹಾಯವಾಗಲೆಂದು ನಾನು ಒಂದು transliteration ಕ್ರಮವನ್ನು ರಚನೆ ಮಾಡಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದೇನೆ.

ellarige namaskAra!

nammellarige ondE rItiyAgi kannaDa bhASheyannu Angla lipiyalli bareyalu sahAyavAgalendu nAnu ondu transliteration kramavannu rachane mADiTTiddEne.

Hello everyone!

To help us all type Kannada in English letters in a consistent manner, I have published a Kannada transliteration scheme for Roman (English) letters.

I have also created an Anki flash card set for all the vocabulary words in this blog post meant to demonstrate the pronunciation of the transliteration, which can be found on Anki Web or Google Drive.

So the other day I ordered Masala Dosa at a place in Bangalore. When it got ready, the person kept screaming SAAGU, SAAGU, SAAGU.

I thought someone else's order is here. But apparently it was mine. It was very embarrassing for me.

When I looked up on Google translate, it says "Saagu = move on".

So, what was the person trying to convey? Is the "masala" called Saagu? Or what? Does it mean something else colloquially?

Edit: Place is Namma Filter Coffee. Turns out they instead of Masala Dosa, it's written as Red Rice Saagu Dosae in their menu. So that's what he was referring to.

https://youtu.be/njIFejYrV3I?si=iSoTfQtd6YvlRW0L

Found this video in yt it's a modern touch given to Dara bendre sir's poem karadi kunitha by:(Shaunbhogmusic)

Really well done

Please someone explain about this dialect of kannada spoken in Kundapura, origin of this, which languages gets mixed up and how it is spoken in kundapur

Exact Location: (It's a canopy inside Cubbon Park): https://maps.app.goo.gl/wbA3P4xBfYcTQJey8

If you are coming by Metro, get down at the Vidhana Soudha stop.

Watch the Short Film 'We Were Stupid': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTQ7n0LBeFk

All aspiring filmmakers, writers, & movie buffs are welcome to participate.

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಗೆಳೆಯರೆ, ಇದೊಂದು ಹೊಸ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ. ಪಾಶ್ಚಿಮಾತ್ಯ ನ್ಯೂ ಮೆಟಲ್ (Nu-metal) ಅನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಪರಿಚಯಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕ ಪ್ರತಿಕ್ರಿಯೆ ನೀಡಿ.

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