Learning Marathi Through English

Book excerpt: This book is specially designed as a course book for the non-Marathi speaking adult learners of Marathi language. This course has been tried out by the authors themselves. They have taught it in various Marathi-language teaching programmes to learners from different disciplines and occupations. All the lessons in it are situation oriented and it serves the purpose of providing cultural set-up of Marathi language. All of them are organized according to the gradation of the structural units given at the beginning of every lesson. These lessons are followed by grammatical notes. The grammatical notes, if followed in sequence will debit the structure of the pedagogical grammar of current Marathi. Every lesson is equipped with various drills and exercises for the practice and for guessing the purpose of the learners. At the end of every lesson a special conversational paragraph is added for giving the feel of free usage of Marathi. An important and unique feature of this book is the special script book added to it in the beginning. It contains eighteen chapters for script teaching. Here-in the letters are graphed according to the principle of shape similarity. The author have taken pains to demonstrate all the possible strokes, their sequences and the direction of writing them. The four appendixes given at the end are quite useful. The vocabulary and the solution of all the exercises especially will be useful learning aids for the self learners as well.