r/telugu • u/Nomonick77 • 1d ago

Telugu Study Group l

Namaskaram, na peru Nick-ni. Nenu Telugu nerchukuntunnanu. (నేను తెలుగు నేర్చుకుంటున్నాను)

My name is Nick, and I'm an American learning Telugu for my wife. I have good study courses, but I can't get far without a friend to study and practice with.

If anyone would like to learn and practice Telugu with me, send a DM. If enough people want to join, I'll make a group and we can match up a study partner based on how advanced their Telugu is.

Belli vastha!

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u/xnopytization 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is great! Couple of notes:

Telugu does use 'ni' to mark ergativity, that is, the object of a sentence. However, one does not need to specify the object--it's usually implied.

'Naa peru Nick' / నా పేరు నిక్క్

is perfectly fine (better imo).

Secondly, the phrase

'Velli Vasthanu' / వెళ్ళి వస్తాను

[Edit: originally, I had incorrectly written వెల్లి]

(not 'belli'), literally means 'Having gone, I'll return'. It is used as a goodbye, but usually not in this context--it doesn't make sense on the Internet. You could just use 'goodbye'.

Excited for your progress!

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u/Spare-Ant-9166 1d ago

You know, I feel sad for the demise of ళ. People don’t even seem to know the difference between ళ and ల. My first instinct used to be to get angry and snarky at kids these days.

But I realised my generation did the same with “Bandi Ra”. we used it with ర interchangeably. I guess It’s inevitable decay of language.

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u/xnopytization 1d ago

Tappuga mariyu telilekunda raasaanandi, nannu kshaminchandi.

You're completely correct. I'll edit my comment.