May 31st, 2022
Your Excellency,
It is with great displeasure that I confess to you the present state of Telugu language resources online. Telugu resources online are scattered, unintuitive, and disorganized, especially for a Western audience. It can be a nightmare to make any half-hearted attempt to access, let alone learn, the Telugu language.
Nonetheless, I have embarked on this journey to learn Telugu to fluency by Senior year of college. This quest will be difficult, but nonetheless possible, given that I exercise great care, passion, and resourcefulness on my part.
So far, I have spent two months back in late 2021 learning the Telugu alphabet, but since then, made little to no progress due to squandered time and attention in fruitless endeavors. But with the advent of summer, and with my energy stores replenished, I remain hopeful for the possibilities of the future.
I am pleased to inform you of my recent uncovering of an old and rare book entitled “An Intensive Course in Telugu” authored by Parimi Ramanarasimham, whose contents will prove to be useful for my purposes.
The grammar topics covered in the Table of Contents above will serve as my roadmap and compass for my Telugu studies this present summer. I will study all the unfamiliar and curious terms such as “nominates,” “predicates,” and “proverbializers” and proceed to cast wide nets into the seas of the Google Search Engine to capture as much illuminating knowledge on the grammar of Telugu as humanly possible. Thence on, I will cobble together and organize these resources in a most presentable and user-friendly manner and record them in my language log book. I will add helpful audios, links, and pictures, as well as ask native Telugus to record themselves for audios I don’t have access to or to clarify any confusions.
Today, on the thirty-first day of the fifth month in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-two, marks the beginning of my noble attempts of this intense and foreign pursuit. Wish me the best, my dearest, as I hope with eager longing to return to your familiar coastlands once again.
Yours truly,
Sir Harry Englishbooboo II
Okay, I’m going to stop talking like a 19th century English civil servant now 😂.
Anyways, this concludes Language Log #1 (Starting Tuesday, May 31st)! Feel free to ask as many questions. I hope any other language learners will find the following resources useful!
