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Hello Readers:

I am currently volunteering at School of India For Languages And Culture (SILC) as Director of Communications. I also teach Telugu at SILC.

All my weekly lesson plans are posted at http://www.jasthi.com/

You can find the rhymes in Telugu, Transliteration and Translation versions at this site.

I suggest that you visit these pages if you are interested to learn Telugu through English.

Thanks for your feedback and I will see you at silctelugu.

- Siva jasthi

Learn Telugu through English (Spoken Telugu)

[1]Learn Telugu in 30 days / by K. Srinivasachari (National integration language series) (Unknown Binding)

by Kizhattur Srinivasachari (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Telugu-Srinivasachari-National-integration-language/dp/B0007B1ECA

[2]Learn Telugu in a Month (Paperback)
by Govinbarajulu (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Telugu-Month-Govinbarajulu/dp/8187782080


[3] An Intenstive Course in Telugu (By RAMANARSIMHAM)

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/lingualove-21/detail/8173421625/203-5640951-5974352


[4] Spoken Telugu: Book Units 1-30; Cassettes Units 1-12 (Spoken Telugu) (Paperback)
by Leigh Lisker (Author)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0879503785/ref=nosim/203-5640951-5974352?tag=lingualove-21&linkCode=sb1&camp=2378&creative=8430

[5] Spoken Telugu; From Sussex Publications

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/lingualove-21/detail/1860136524/203-5640951-5974352

[6] Spoken Telugu: Level 1

http://www.worldlanguage.com/Products/8379.htm

[7] Spoken Telugu: Level 2

http://www.worldlanguage.com/Products/41397.htm

[8] Learn Telugu

http://www.languagequest.com/home/product.php?prodCode=TNTEL&lang=Telugu

Telugu Resources

[1] Telugu Greetings
http://www.telugugreetings.fotorima.com/

[2] Top: World: Telugu
http://www.dmoz.org/World/Telugu/

[3] Telugu Blogs @ Sahiti
http://www.sahiti.org/blogs/

Telugu - Online Tools for typing, blogging, transliterating

[0] Good editor for transliterating into Telugu and also to transliterate back to English (useful for those who can speak telugu, but can not read Telugu)
http://lekhini.org/

[1] Good editor in typing English and seeing it in Telugu.
Also offers different Telugu possibilities for a given English text. Cool feature.
http://www.quillpad.in/telugu/

[2] You can type in transliterated Telugu and the search box shows the Telugu
http://www.guruji.com/te

[3] LinguiPad
http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/3471/

[4] Rice Inverse Transliterator
http://www.teluguworld.org/RIT/rit3.0/faq.html

[5] RTS Primer
http://www.bhaavana.net/Rangavalli/webeditor.html#rts

[6] Padma
http://padma.mozdev.org/

[7] Telugu Toolbar
http://telugutoolbar.mozdev.org/

[8] Rangavalli online editor
http://www.bhaavana.net/Rangavalli/webeditor.html

[9] RTS2ISCII Converter
http://members.tripod.com/~bhaavana/rts2iscii.html

[10] Telugu Lipi
http://www.sirigina.com/telugulipi/

[11] Another Primer on how to use RTS
http://www.teluguworld.org/RIT/rts.html

[12] Likhita - Another Telugu Editor
http://www.telugupeople.com/likhita/

[12] Wikipedia: Setting up your browser for Indic Scripts
http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Setting_up_your_browser_for_Indic_scripts

[13] A good FAQ on installing fonts (You can also download Andhra Prabha font)
http://www.andhraprabha.com/xfont/FontFAQ.htm

[13] Telugu Communication Software with Java: Present and Future
http://bhaavana.tripod.com/atlanta/atlanta.html

[14] Fonts from South Asia Language Resources Center
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/telugu/

[15] Installing Fonts and Keyboard Layouts
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/installing.shtml

[16] Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/telugu.html

[17] What is Unicode? Read it Telugu
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/translations/telugu.html

[18] Unicode Characters for Telugu - Reference/Standard
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0C00.pdf

[19] Telugu Pages at PennState
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/telugu.html

[20] Non-English Keyboards with XP
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/keyboards/winkey.html#eastasia

[21] Telugu Alphabet
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/telugu.htm

[22] Telugu Language at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language

[23] a utility to write documents in Indian languages
http://members.tripod.com/~sbiswas/IWrite32/IWrite32.html


[24] Publishing Telugu Pages
http://www.sirigina.com/telugulipi/howtopublish.asp

FONTS:
[1] Pothana2000 Font
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/telugu/pothana2000.shtml

[2] Vemena2000 Font
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/telugu/vemena2000.shtml

[3] Goutami Font (from Microsoft)
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/telugu/gautami.shtml

[4] Code2000
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/telugu/code2000.shtml

[5] Akshar Fonts
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/telugu/ashkar.shtml

[6] Tikkana Fonts
http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/

[7] Telugu Fonts in cyberspace
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/lang/Telugu.html

Telugu - Literature Links and Resources on Net

Pretty good compilation of telugu links
http://www.engr.mun.ca/~adluri/telugu/links.html

Stotraas and Mantraas in Telugu Font
http://trchari.tripod.com/list3.pdf

India Network Foundation - Many links to Telugu resources
http://www.teluguworld.org/

English Translations of Telugu Classics
http://www.teluguworld.org/Translations/translations.html

Telugu Literature and References
http://www.sailu.com/

Learning Telugu - Online Resources

[1] Learn Telugu
http://www.languageshome.com/English-Telugu.htm

[2] Welcome to Spoken Telugu learning corner
http://www.sahiti.org/learn/spoken.jsp

[3] Welcome to Written/Read Telugu learning corner
http://www.sahiti.org/learn/written.jsp

[4] Master Any Language - Telugu Resources
http://www.masteranylanguage.com/cgi/f/pCat.pl?tc=MALTelugu

[5] Pedda Bala Siksha
http://www.sirigina.com/pedda/

[6] Introduction to Telugu Grammar
http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~vemuri/Grammar
Good resource for English speakers; Oragnized into 12 different chapters

[7] Telugu Alphabet
http://www.teluguwebsite.com/Telugu_Alphabets.html

[8] Telugu 4 Kids
http://www.telugu4kids.com

[9] Telugu Stories in Bookbox
http://www.bookbox.com

A tragic and poignant song

========= Devadasu Version ==========================

I've lost you, my lover
I've lost the intimacy you share
And there is no light in my life

while darkness prevails everywhere
your thoughts are only my hope
all that is left is just you

nothing is sweeter
than the pain you can't forget

nothing is comforting
than feeling sorry for missing you forever

nothing is beautiful
nothing is happier
than the lover you can't possess
==================================================


Heere is a translation of a song from a old Telugu Movie called "DaevaDasu"..
The film is based on a Benagli novel. It is a story of two lovers that ends in a tragedy.

After losing the lover, the man distructs himself by becoming a drunkard; and he promises the woman that he visits her just once before he dies; and he dies in front of her house after stealing a last glimpse of her through the windows. And while she comes out to see the dead body, her husband and the palace gaurds close the huge iron doors; and she dies as well out of
the helplessness of not able to see the dead body of her past lover. Very tragic and very moving.

Telugu song is very cryptic where a few words carry a lot of punch and meaning. I realised my translation to English lost some of the power. Nevertheless, that is what I could manage to share.

In any case, here is his version of coming to terms with losing his lover. It is also depressing version of how she is coming to terms with she losing her lover.

Want to know more about C.P.Brown?

http://www.engr.mun.ca/~adluri/telugu/modern/people/cpbrown1.html

http://www.engr.mun.ca/~adluri/telugu/modern/people/cpbrown2.html

Online Telugu-English Dictionaries

[1] Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
J.P.L. Gwynn's Telugu-English Dictionary
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/gwynn/

[2] Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
C.P. Brown's Telugu-English Dictionary
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/brown/

[3] English to Telugu (C.P.Brown) Dictionary
http://www.aksharamala.com/telugu/e2t/

[4] Telugu to English (C.P.Brown) Dictionary
http://www.sahiti.org/dict/

Telugu 2 English - Why?

There are many classic stories, books, poems, songs in Telugu. This blog is created to show case such Telugu pieces in English. The main purpose of this blog is to extend the reach of the Telugu literature and culture to a wider audience.