Spoken Kannada

Bangalore: Kannada Sahitya Parishat, 1980. — 96 p.Bangalore is emerging as the Southern Metropole of India. As such the number of non-Kannada speaking people is quite significant. For such persons at least a basic knowledge of the Kannada language is an absolute necessity. From a long time the lack of any training in Kannada to non-Kannada speakers has been felt. Now the Kannada Sahitya Praishat has come forward to teach Kannada to people whose mother tongue is other than Kannada.
With this object in view the Parishat constituted a committee for preparing a course in Kannada. The committee constituted a sub-committee of experts to prepare a curriculum. This Text Book Production Committee prepared 31 graded cycles by employing the Micro-wave approach to facilitate easy learning of Kannada by all non-Kannada speakers. Though the target language is spoken Kannada, a chapter on Kannada Script has also been added so that the student would not experience any difficulty in mastering Kannada Script.
At the very outset the Kannada Sahitya Parishat conducted a Training Course for Teachers who could conduct these classes successfully. Twenty five selected candidates participated in the course and are to-day conducting classes in different parts of the city. The response of non-Kannada speakers to these classes was heart warming and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat is put to the necessity of conducting a number of such training camps for teachers to satisfy the growing demand for these classes from every nook and corner of the city. The Kannada Sahitya Parishat wants to extend the classes to District and Taluk head-quarters also.
We trust that this book will be of immense use to the non-Kannada speakers who want to acquire a working knowledge in Kannada.