Speak Malayalam in Ten Weeks

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What? This book is just littered with Malayalam writing and the English word or translation next to it and etc. That doesn't help me SPeaK Malayalam or act as Dictionary of sorts. Page 105 does give such websites that may be helpful.

There is a need to appreciate the effort to understand the lingual restrictions among natives abroad and to actually make a book in an honest attempt to better the situation. Well done.

This book was a very thorough and helpful tool in helping me to learn how to speak Malayalam!

Great helper for learning a new language. Wonderful book.

This book may be a nice book for those he can read the lingo that the practice words and phrases are printed in. It says learn how to speak Malayalam, but without a cd or dvd, how will you know how to pronounce these words and phrases? I can see if the book title was, "Learn how to write Malayalam". I am not trashing this book in no way. I just want to be able to learn some things in a proper way.

I am very sorry, but all you‘re gonna learn in this book is animal names and totally unnecessary verb forms and nouns, which are absolutely no basic knowledge!!! I am a language teacher, so I had high expectations, but every chapter simply introduces a new fable. There is NO conversational exercise whatsoever. Even my malayalee boyfriend is shocked due to the lack of competence and creativity of the authors. In the 21st century, with so many possibilities at hand, creating a book like this, was unimaginable for me. Plus the exercises (simple random lists) are totally demotivating.

This product is best for those who already know and understand the Malayalam alphabet. There is no reference in the book for the alphabet or phonetic training...Not helpful.