Author: Krishna Gopal Vikal
Amitabh Dhingra/
Translator(s)/ Edito: Nalini Srikanth
Publisher: Diamond
Year: 2016
Language: multilingual
Pages: 156
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8128811878
Description
The book primarily attempts to introduce those whose mother tongue
is not Kannada to learning of kannada by the most natural and the
simplest method. It adopts the scientific approach, introducing alphabets, words, sentences in that order and application of these in the most common situations of daily life.
Situational sentences and conversational sentences selected for the book reflect the maximum possible commonness of India languages and Indian culture.
Contents
PART 1- ALPHABET
Welcome you all
Alphabet
Consonants
How to Write alphabet
Vowels & Their Abbreviated Forms
Conjuncts
The Parts of speech
Gender
Number
Cases & Declention of Nouns
PART 2- WORDS
Pronoun
Adjective
Verb
Tense (1)
Tense (2)
Voice
Auxiliary Verbs
Other parts of speech
Cardinal Numerals
Often confused words
PART 3-CLASSIFIED SENTENCES
Useful expressions
Imperative Sentences
Present Tense
Future Tense
Past Tense (1)
Past Tense (2)
Interrogative Sentences (1)
Interrogative Sentences (2)
Interrogative Sentences (3)
Negative Sentences
PART 4- SITUATIONAL SENTENCES
At Home
Shopping
Craftsmen
Foods & Drinks
Hotel & restaurant
Post Office/Telephone/Bank
While Travelling
Health & Hygiene
Weather
Time
PART 5- CONVERSATION
Let us talk
Between Two Friends
About Money
On the Bus
Asking the Way
Making A Trip
The Villager & The Urbanite
The doctor & The Patient
Self-introduction
APPENDIX
Idioms & proverbs
Kannada-English Dictionary
Some Important Kannada Verbs