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Next Gen ¯ÉÆÃPÀ Kannada Kali-A great learning experience.

By: Shreyas Jamadagni (10 years)
I used to really like my kindergarten days. Where I was pampered a lot, I did not have to pay atenton in class
and luckily no tests. I really felt the same in Kannada Kali classes conducted by Kannada Sangha (Singapore).
Learning the basics as we do in kindergarten was replicated over here. As I do have a very deep interest in try-
ing to read Kannada books, I was having a very informatve tme. The teachers way of teaching is very inter-
estng to follow. They made a wonderful power point presentaton with
good explanatons and relatve examples. More importantly, they
gave us tasty snacks during break tme and also allowed us to watch
a few Kannada folk tales. Not to menton the fact that they did make
us recite the Kannada alphabets. They gave regular tests which
made us all remember what we did in the previous class. The Exer-
cise books were very helpful for us to learn and practce. The text-
books, the syllabus, the teachers and the interactve sessions, and
not to forget, the snacks, all made this class a perfect place to learn.

When any program is initated, there has to be results. Afer the clas-
ses and when I went to India, (Karnataka) I started to read all the
boards, posters, Newspapers, magazines and the summaries of Kan-
nada books. It has become a habit for me now to read anything that
is writen in kannada. And I do try to read Kannada Sangha’s monthly ‘Sinchana E-newsleter’ ofen, though
not fuently yet. Thanks a lot to Kannada Sangha (Singapore) for giving me the opportunity to learn my moth-
er tongue which happens to be one of the oldest languages of India!

By: Sanjana Raghunath (11 years)
Kannada Kali is a language teaching programme organized by Kannada Sangha (Singapore) for young children
in Singapore at SINDA. The basic Kannada classes were for 12 weeks, with each class being for 2 hours. Subse-
quently monthly classes were held to allow us to contnue learning and remembering what we had learnt. In
these classes, we have learnt the (KannadaVarnamala) consonants,

vowels, phonics and also learnt to write small words. It was easy, but
it took a lot of tme to learn them. Now I can read words, but I stam-
mer a litle and take some tme to read it. We learnt a song on Lord
Ganesha and sang it in a Kannada Sangha program and also learnt a
kid’s poem.
While I was learning Kannada in the class, my father used to spend his
tme chatng with other parents. My parents always wanted me to
learn Kannada; so they were very happy. They were excited to take
me to the classes, may be for two reasons; one is for me to learn Kan-
nada basics and second is for weekly shopping and visitng temple on
Serangoon road.
For these classes, I used to wait eagerly every week as it was fun and
could also play with other classmates. In the class when they give break tme, they give us delicious snacks
and showed us Kannada stories. Kannada Kali is one of my favourite classes.
It’s nice to learn Kannada with all my friends and I hope the classes will improve and will give us a beter
learning platorm. I am learning a language and I’m proud to be a Kannadiga...!!

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