Author: Krishna Gopal Vikal
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Poornima Kundetkee
Publisher: Diamond
Year: 2008
Language: Bi-Lingual
Pages: 232
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788128818546
Description
The book primarily attempts to introduce those whose mother tongue is not Marathi learing of Marathi 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 Indian languages and Indian culture. The purpose is that learner during the process of learning should be sufficiently equipped to converse and transact with a very vats section of Marathi speaking people throughout India and abroad.
Since Marathi is the mother-tounge of about 30 crores of people and is spoken or understood by another 20 crores or so and since it is the principal link language of the greatest democracy of the world, acquaintance with this not only enables one to establish a direct communication with millions of people, thereby promoting his career prospects and business interests, but also gives him the spiritual satisfaction of belonging to a vast family.
The book can also be helpful to foreigners who are on visit to India as tourists, scholars, diplomats and businessmen as it would enable tham to move about in different pats of the country transcending the language barriers.
Contents
1. Welcome you all
2. Alphabet
3. Consonants
4. How to Write Alphabet
5. Vowels & Their Abbreviated Forms
6. Conjuncts
7. The Parts of Speech
8. Gender
9. Number
10. Case & Declention of Nouns
Part – 2 Word
11. Pronoun
12. Adjeciive
13. Verb
14. Tense (1)
15. Tense (2)
16. Voice
17. The Kinds of Secondary Verbs
18. Indeclinable
19. Cardinal Numerals – Ginti
20. Errors in Spellings
Part – 3 Classified Sentences
21. Useful Expressions
22. Imperative Sentences
23. Present Tense
24. Future Tense
25. Past Tense (1)
26. Past Tense (2)
27. Interrogative Sentences