Learn to Speak Kannada
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Origins of the Kannada Language
Kannada (Kanarese) is a member of the Dravidian family of languages.
The Dravidian languages have their own alphabets, which go back to a common source that is related to the Devanagari alphabet used for Sanskrit. Kannada developed as an independent language in the 9th. century AD.
How many people speak the Kannada language?
About 35 million people throughout the world speak Kannada.
Kannada-speaking Countries
Kannada is the State Language of Karnataka but it is also used in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra.
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Talk Now Kannada CD-ROM Details
This is an excitingly different language learning series. Talk Now! uses games and quizzes as a basis for making the learning process fun, easy and relaxing. There is no better way to teach an old dog new tricks and this fun element of the program means that your fears are forgotten as you absorb words and phrases without even realising you are learning them.
Talk Now! is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than three million people to date. It's ideal for travellers, holidaymakers, business people, schoolchildren, students and families.
Anyone over 10 years of age will find the disc indispensable for improving listening, understanding and spoken language skills. There are nine topics: first words, food, colours, phrases, parts of the body, numbers, time, shopping and countries.
The games and quizzes included on the disc ensure that users have fun whilst using the disc, without realising that they're learning. The "intelligent" software feature remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points.
NOW includes Apple iPod integration, which allows you to listen to Talk Now Kannada wherever you are!
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Talk Now! is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than eight million people to date. It's ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, school children, students and families. Anyone beginning to learn will find the disc indispensable. Updated version now with iPod music player integration, listen to Talk Now Kannada wherever you are.
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Kannada Music and Dance
Classical Indian music is mainly divided into two branches, North (Hindustani) and South. The South Indian music is called Carnatic, in reference of the Southern State of Karnataka. Carnatic music is nearly totally unified and the different schools are based on the same ragas (about 300 different ragas), same solo instruments, mainly the veena, flute violin and same rhythm instrument, the mridangam and the ghatam.
Kannada Food and Drink
Karnataka's culinary culture revolves round three staple items-rice, ragi and jowar. However, the people in the northern districts have a preference for wheat and jowar rotis (unleavened bread made of millet) eaten with spiced vegetable preparations. In rural Karnataka, ragi is widely used with each meal. This staple grain is steam cooked and rolled into balls the size of cricket balls and served with hot chutney or huli (a cousin of sambhar).
A typical Karnataka meal has many delicacies like Kosambari, a salad made of the broken halves of the soaked green moong dal (lentil) minus its skin, spiced with salt, green chili and mustard seed (oggarane) and mixed with tiny scrapings of coconut, cucumber and carrot and dressed with a little lime juice.
Then there are the playas which are vegetables steamed or boiled to retain the original colour and flavour. Also, no Kannada meal is complete without saaru—a clear pepper broth. Other popular Karnataka specialties are bisi bele huli anna, which is created out of rice, dal, tamarind, chili powder, and cinnamon; and chitranna—rice with the juice of lime, green chili and turmeric powder and sprinkled with fried groundnuts and coriander leaves.
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Learn to speak Kannada the quick and easy way with a EuroTalk CD-ROM from just £19.99
- EuroTalk language learning discs aim to help you understand and speak a new language quickly and easily.
- By hearing and practising authentic everyday speech, your natural abillity for language will develop.
- Four year olds in their own country can't read, write or understand grammar, yet they can communicate very effectively.
- When you go to a new country, you should be able to use the language without thinking about the grammar.
- Each EuroTalk CD has a section where you can discover and absorb the language but the real learning process starts when you do the quizzes.
- Don't be frightened to start with the quizzes, you will be amazed at how much you get right even when you only know a few of the words.
- Your confidence will grow as you get more and more quiz questions correct. Get a Bronze Award and you will want to keep going for Gold!
- An important feature of the language discs is the unique recording feature, this allows you to hear and compare your voice with a native speaker.
- By mimicking the actors (sometimes better done in a room on your own!) you will soon see how rewarding language learning with EuroTalk is.
- Research in the early 1990's at the University of California revealed that memory is greatly improved when accompanied by fun and laughter.
- Our quizzes, games and stories provide this and you will be amazed how much you remember after a surprisingly short time.
- Above all, EuroTalk discs are designed to be fun and enjoyable.
System Requirements
Windows 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7
Apple Mac OSX 10.3.9 or higher
Computer Required: Colour display, sound, 64MB of free memory, a CD or DVD-ROM drive & microphone (recommended).
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