{"id":17,"date":"2023-05-08T18:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2023-05-08T18:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:23:25","slug":"reading-in-telugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/reading-in-telugu\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading in Telugu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, I&#8217;m focusing on learning how to read Telugu. Previously, I was trying to learn from podcasts and TV, but I read <a href=\"https:\/\/preply.com\/en\/blog\/10-tips-learn-languages-fast\/\">this<\/a> article by polyglot (Olly Richards), where he recommended reading, rather than TV\/media as the primary language learning strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I already know the basics of the Telugu alphabet and know most of the symbols, but I can&#8217;t read quickly. To practice my reading skills, I found <a href=\"https:\/\/kathalu.wordpress.com\/2021\/11\/12\/%e0%b0%8e%e0%b0%a6%e0%b0%a6-%e0%b0%97%e0%b0%b0%e0%b0%b5\/\">this<\/a> website that contains many Telugu stories. I got through the first 2 paragraphs in around 15 minutes, which isn&#8217;t bad. Here are some words that I learned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u0c0a\u0c30\u0c47\u0c17\u0c3f\u0c02\u0c2a\u0c41 [\u016ar\u0113gimpu] &#8211; procession<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u0c38\u0c02\u0c35\u0c24\u0c4d\u0c38\u0c30\u0c02 [Sanvatsara\u1e41] &#8211; year<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u0c2a\u0c02\u0c21\u0c17 [Pa\u1e47\u1e0daga] &#8211; festival<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u0c35\u0c40\u0c27\u0c41\u0c32\u0c41 [V\u012bdhulu] &#8211; streets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u0c2a\u0c41\u0c35\u0c4d\u0c35\u0c41\u0c32\u0c41 [Puvvulu] &#8211; flowers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u0c0e\u0c26\u0c4d\u0c26\u0c41 \u0c2c\u0c02\u0c21\u0c3f [Eddu ba\u1e47\u1e0di] &#8211; bullock cart<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the words I was able to recognize from spoken Telugu, and reading them was easy. But for the new words, I needed to sound them out character by character, which is quite exhausting. Even now, I don&#8217;t recognize the characters as sounds immediately. I need to think while pronouncing each one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would like to improve my reading further so that my recall is immediate. I think I can do this by creating Anki cards with audio, so my brain will associate each symbol with sound. Beyond that, I just need to practice more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, I&#8217;m focusing on learning how to read Telugu. Previously, I was trying to learn from podcasts and TV, but I read this article by polyglot (Olly Richards), where he recommended reading, rather than TV\/media as the primary language learning strategy. I already know the basics of the Telugu alphabet and know most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugunotes.hiddn.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}