Spoken Kannada for Absolute Beginners

Spoken Kannada for Absolute Beginners is a fantastic book: Here are the Pros and cons: Pros: easy to use, language learner friendly, Kannada transliteration and audio, Memrise course for learning vocabularies and sentences, Role play scenarios, Great grammar explanations with lots and lots of examples and Exercises with keys. Cons: There isn't any real con that i found, the only con that i can say is there isn't any actual Kannada script. But, the author says it's tough and takes a lot of time to learn Kannada script so he skipped it. Overall, If you are looking for a book to learn Kannada and want to make Kannada sentences with 4-5 words in short span of time then this book is for you. I strongly believe that this is the best book to learn Kannada.

The text and explanations are excellent, however Memrise does not have Kannada as an option for supported languages. Is there anywhere else to listen to the audio files for pronunciation?

When it comes to learning Kannada, there aren't many resources available. When I was searching for a book on Amazon, I could hardly find anything proper. This book, however, fits what I needed. It provides tons of information and exercises at the end of each chapter, which is a bonus. Kannada is a tough language to learn, let me tell you that, but this book makes it much easier to learn Kannada and I found it to be fun as well. The author explains everything in detail with lots of examples and guides you through the whole language learning process. Overall, i would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn and be fluent in Kannada.

The book is laid out logically and progressively. As beautiful as it may be, there's no Kannada script used (as the focus of the book is the spoken language), so there's very little learning curve in reading the Roman transliteration. (It's OK that no Kannada script is used in this book. Spoken language comes first! Most Indians can text in Roman script anyway.) The explanations and examples are clear, and the exercises are helpful. The audio files are easily downloaded from the website indicated in the book. Listening to the language makes it even more inspiring to learn this language spoken by soon-to-be 60 million speakers.

This book is a perfect guide for learning Kannada, There are lots of information on grammar, exercises and keys are provided at the end of each chapter. Transliteration and audio are provided for all the Kannada scripts, this helped me to practise my Kannada pronunciation a lot. As an added bonus, at the end of the book lots of Kannada vocabularies, Kannada sentences and different role play scenarios were provided which helped me a lot in improving my Kannada fluency. Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning Kannada and becoming fluent in it.

I bought this book after studying Sanjay's Tamil book and taking classes from him. I was so inspired by his teaching talents and the thoughtfulness in his language books, that I could hardly wait to explore Kannada. Sanjay has done it again! This book is packed full with vocabulary, grammar rules, and exercises all laid out sequentially to best aid a beginner's journey to learning. I highly recommend it and any books he writes!

If you, like me, have minimal familiarity with Kannada, this book is for you. Sanjay explains the nuances of the language in a way that is comprehensible for leaners at every level. It is rare to find a book of this quality that is written with the needs of absolute beginners in mind. I cannot recommend this book enough for anyone seeking to learn the language of P. V. Acharya.

I've used Sanjay's course for Tamil for a while and it's been fantastic. He is so thorough and provides easy-to-understand examples and explanations. I am so excited to use his Kannada course too! This will be perfect for my upcoming stay in Bangalore!

Special thanks to this book. Kannada is important Indian language and it is excellent to find book for learners. Only disadvantage of this book is that it does not contain the script. You learn spoken language but it is not as accurate as with the script.

The book was extremely well laid out and made learning this language super easy and straightforward.

its perfect for beginners as like me. This book provides all that is needed for beginners in Kannada - from zero to a confident level. It has sample kannada conversation and sentences at the end of the book which is a bonus.

I recently purchased "Spoken Kannada for Absolute Beginners" and I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it's practical because it's only in the Latin alphabet, which makes it easy to read and write. However, I found it hard to follow and not very engaging. It seems to be geared towards those who already have some familiarity with the language. If you're an absolute beginner, you might find it challenging to use this book as your only resource for learning Kannada. Overall, I think it's a decent resource for learning Kannada, but it's not the best one out there.

book is really good, if you know English.