Telugu Advice

[Systematiker]

Hey, so for various reasons I may be trying to learn Telugu, along with a helpful (but not educator) native speaker. What in the world is out there for resources? My usual go-to stuff doesn't seem to have much. Anyone got suggestions?

[Speakeasy]

I am invoking, here, my habitual disclaimer: I have never studied Telugu and I have no intention of ever doing so. Nevertheless, your question intrigued me, particularly given your very impressive accomplishments in learning languages. I conducted a quick search of the Internet and, while I did not find many resources for this language, I decided to post the paltry list below for posterity:

Learning Telugu.org
http://www.learningtelugu.org/

Learn Telugu 100 Lessons Audio Book MP3
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Learn-TELUGU-100-Lessons-Audio-Book-MP3-CD-iPod-Friendly-TELUGU-Language-disc-/271732273991?epid=1091480248&hash=item3f44817347:g:TxQAAOSw7ThUq3c9 The seller offers PDF/MP3 versions of courses in several languages which I suspect are U.S. Armed Forces elementary language orientation courses from the 1970's.

Hindi-Telugu Learning Course - Pustak Mahal
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9788122300390&cm_sp=mbc-_-9788122300390-_-all
Probably not much, but at least there is an edition with a CD.

Telugu Dictionary & Phrasebook (Hippocrene Books)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Telugu-English-English-Telugu-Dictionary-Phrasebook-Language/dp/0781813530/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1503346422&sr=8-2&keywords=Telugu
Ah, Hippocrene Books, where would we be without them? It is a recent publication (hopefully, it is not a reprint of a scholarly work from the earliy 1900's) and it has 296 pages. It's worth a try.

Telugu Language: The Telugu Phrasebook and Dictionary
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Telugu-Language-Phrasebook-Dictionary/dp/1533659834/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1503346422&sr=8-6&keywords=Telugu
A slimmer variant of the one above?

1001+ Exercises - Telugu
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Gilad+Soffer&bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&kn=telugu&recentlyadded=all&sortby=7
Probably not very substantial, but at least it is available in several L1 bases.

Online, Extremely Elementary Courses:
Omniglot
MyLanguageExchange
Learn101

Yeah, I know, hardly worth mentioning!

EDITED:
Typos, as usual!

[Whodathunkitz]

Hey, so for various reasons I may be trying to learn Telugu, along with a helpful (but not educator) native speaker. What in the world is out there for resources? My usual go-to stuff doesn't seem to have much. Anyone got suggestions?

Bible.is has audio new testament bible in the android app. I believe you may be familiar with this work....

[Systematiker]

Bible.is is the Faith Comes by Hearing group, which does good work, however, I've showed that version to my native speaker helper (pastor and missionary Dean), and he said that it isn't idiosyncratic usage, it sounds more like a foreigner with incomplete command of the language. So I've been warned away from that version in terms of actually being able to talk to people.

You have given me some inspiration, though, and the dliflc has some basic guides I can get started with. The modern versions of the orientation guides are available in a number of languages. They don't have the head start or rapport for Telugu, but it's better than nothing.

[iguanamon]

From the Yojik site- Peace Corps Conversational Telugu

[mcthulhu]

GitHub is always a good place to search for digital language resources. A search on Telugu shows 242 repositories as of today, including the following that look interesting:

https://github.com/Malkitti/Corpusandcodes - Telugu morphology

https://github.com/sridhar-newsdistill/teluguanalyser - a Telugu stemmer

https://github.com/TeluguOCR/banti_telugu_ocr

http://www.projectchalam.com/ - Telugu digital library (a GitHub repository had the source code for this site)

https://github.com/sc5606/Telugu-Radio-Skill - Amazon skill to play Indian Telugu Radio Stations

https://github.com/cltk/telugu_text_wikisource - Classical Telugu texts from Wikisource

https://github.com/yyr/telugu-dictionary

https://github.com/FreeBiblesIndia/Telugu_Bible

https://github.com/malyadri/en2te - English to Telugu dictionary

etc. I didn't look through all of it.

Also, see http://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/showfile.php?fil ... /index.htm.

"You can type a word and get it's analysis (The analysis gives the root and other features such as gender, number, tense etc). These are available for Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi & Telugu. (...) Telugu has 95% coverage (for arbitrary text in modern standard Telugu)." It looks like both downloads and an online tool are available. I think 95% is very good for a morphological analyzer.

[Whodathunkitz]

GitHub is always a good place to search for digital language resources. A search on Telugu shows 242 repositories as of today, including the following that look interesting...

Thanks for this. I thought I'd looked at github for Cebuano before, maybe not or maybe there are more things now.

This one is nice as it has an online demo. I think it's what's used in one of my phone apps. I really need to understand the stemming algorithm.

https://github.com/digitalheir/cebuano-dictionary-js (code) / https://digitalheir.github.io/cebuano-dictionary-js/ (demo)

Others:-

https://github.com/eleanorkategpo/BisDak

https://github.com/GITenberg/A-Dictiona ... ayan_40074

[Whodathunkitz]

Bible.is is the Faith Comes by Hearing group, which does good work, however, I've showed that version to my native speaker helper (pastor and missionary Dean), and he said that it isn't idiosyncratic usage, it sounds more like a foreigner with incomplete command of the language. So I've been warned away from that version in terms of actually being able to talk to people.

You have given me some inspiration, though, and the dliflc has some basic guides I can get started with. The modern versions of the orientation guides are available in a number of languages. They don't have the head start or rapport for Telugu, but it's better than nothing.

I knew that my cebuano bible.is was old style/language as it prompted raised eyebrows and much discussion amongst native-speakers.

So, I recently got given a large-format print bible (complete, old and new) in a more modern cebuano that bible.is / faith comes from healing.

This new version is from 1974 or thereabouts and it has been acclaimed by the same people as much better. So 40 odd years old and I know the language has changed in that time.

I think I really will struggle to get any decent resources until Glossika release their Cebuano course. Still, it's only for fun, so I'll use it as a way to get on with unusual languages.

[Systematiker]

From the Yojik site- Peace Corps Conversational Telugu

That's super helpful! I looked for the old DLI, and didn't find anything, but didn't think to check the Peace Corps stuff.

GitHub is always a good place to search for digital language resources. A search on Telugu shows 242 repositories as of today, including the following that look interesting:

https://github.com/Malkitti/Corpusandcodes - Telugu morphology

https://github.com/sridhar-newsdistill/teluguanalyser - a Telugu stemmer

https://github.com/TeluguOCR/banti_telugu_ocr

http://www.projectchalam.com/ - Telugu digital library (a GitHub repository had the source code for this site)

https://github.com/sc5606/Telugu-Radio-Skill - Amazon skill to play Indian Telugu Radio Stations

https://github.com/cltk/telugu_text_wikisource - Classical Telugu texts from Wikisource

https://github.com/yyr/telugu-dictionary

https://github.com/FreeBiblesIndia/Telugu_Bible

https://github.com/malyadri/en2te - English to Telugu dictionary

etc. I didn't look through all of it.

Also, see http://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/showfile.php?fil ... /index.htm.

"You can type a word and get it's analysis (The analysis gives the root and other features such as gender, number, tense etc). These are available for Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi & Telugu. (...) Telugu has 95% coverage (for arbitrary text in modern standard Telugu)." It looks like both downloads and an online tool are available. I think 95% is very good for a morphological analyzer.

This is fully unfamiliar to me - something to check out. Thanks!

Bible.is is the Faith Comes by Hearing group, which does good work, however, I've showed that version to my native speaker helper (pastor and missionary Dean), and he said that it isn't idiosyncratic usage, it sounds more like a foreigner with incomplete command of the language. So I've been warned away from that version in terms of actually being able to talk to people.

You have given me some inspiration, though, and the dliflc has some basic guides I can get started with. The modern versions of the orientation guides are available in a number of languages. They don't have the head start or rapport for Telugu, but it's better than nothing.

I knew that my cebuano bible.is was old style/language as it prompted raised eyebrows and much discussion amongst native-speakers.

So, I recently got given a large-format print bible (complete, old and new) in a more modern cebuano that bible.is / faith comes from healing.

This new version is from 1974 or thereabouts and it has been acclaimed by the same people as much better. So 40 odd years old and I know the language has changed in that time.

I think I really will struggle to get any decent resources until Glossika release their Cebuano course. Still, it's only for fun, so I'll use it as a way to get on with unusual languages.

Yeah I was surprised to hear of the sort of translation issue. I'm supposed to get a reccommendation for a translation, but haven't yet.

[Whodathunkitz]

When you've got native speakers in their 60s/70s who live in remote areas trying to figure out words or even sentences, you know the translation is old!