WIKITONGUES: Manjunath speaking Kannada
Channel: Wikitongues
Date: 20/06/2015

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Hello, my name is Manjunath Jois. I was born and brought up in Bangalore. Bangalore is the capital city of Karnataka and has a pleasant weather all through the year. Because of the natural greenery present here this is also called as Garden City. 

People from our city and state generally speak in Kannada. Kannada is my mother tongue. Since I speak with my folks at home and with my friends I find it very nice to converse in Kannada. Especially when I am outside of my city or state.

Kannada has its own script for writing. While the spoken language has changed significantly over time our script has hardly been through any changes.

Since Kannada is influenced by other southern indian languages we have many common words. As such people speaking kannada can generally understand and learn other languages easily.

People speaking kannada are known as kannadigas and are known for their peaceful and tolerant nature. We generally try to speak to people from other languages in their language to make them feel comfortable and help them. This is also reflected in our spoken language. Especially in large cities like Bangalore where a lot of people from other places visit the spoken kannada includes many foreign words to facilitate easy communication.

As far as I know, kannadigas do not try to force people to learn their langaguage. To learn kannada we feel it is imperative to know our culture. While speaking kannada we can see respect to elders and love towards youngsters which is very hard to teach a non-native speaker. 

By understanding our culture, our friendliness and tolerant nature we believe one would be in a better position to learn kannada. And on that note, I would like to conclude my talk. Thank you.

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