Basic Course in Malayalam

Week 1

Greetings: Self Introduction welcome and other forms, Introduction to Kerala land and culture, Script group- 1, Script group- 2 and 3, Script group- 4 and 5, Script group- 7,6and 8, Script group- 9,10,11 and 12.

Week 2

Personal Pronouns Kinship terms and possessive forms, Basic Adjectives, Interrogative marker of Copula verb, Plural nouns and co- coordinating suffix, Numerals, Cardinal and ordinal numbers , Locative case ,directions and post positions, Pronominal predicates, Demonstrative adjectives.

Week 3

Basic adjectives and adjectival predicates, Different types of masculine and feminine plural forms, Interrogative marker of Copula verb, Plural nouns and co- coordinating suffix, Exclamatory sentences and vocative marker , Past tense and its interrogative marker of copula verb, Dative case, Locative case and future tense of copula verb.

Week 4

Defective verbs and its question marker, Past tense of copula verb and vegetable name, Action verbs, Definite imperatives, negative imperatives and prohibitive forms, Optative contractions(desire ,permission and blessing, Obligatory sentences indicating wish and desire, Verbs showing ability and privilege.

Week 5

Defective verbs, Present and habitual-future usage along with respective negations with internal changes.

Week 6

Purposive infinitive, Prohibitive forms and purposive infinitive, Usage of- To know-verb, Present tense marker, Present tense expanded by ablative case, Present tense expanded by dative case, Present tense expanded by sociative and instrumental case.

Week 7

Transitive ,Intransitive and causative verbs, Future tense, Future Tense-use age in Habitual purpose , Past tense marker and domestic animals name, Past tense marker, Past tense marker, Verbal participles derived from past tense.

Week 8

Complex sentences formed with verbal participle, Reflexive constrictions, Present continues tense, Different shades of meaning of verbal participles, Verbal participles and some auxiliary verbs, Verbal participle and future probabilities, Discussion about the previous class.

Week 9

Restrictive constrictions, Conditional forms, Another type of conditional contraction, Relative participles, Negative verbal adjectives, Participial nouns and expanded forms, Reported speech.

Week 10

Passive voice, Active voice, Special usage of compound words, Sample of letter writing, idioms, Proverbs, Complex sentence contractions.

Week 11

Cultural vocabulary, About festivals, Folk story, Phrases, About Celebrations, stories , About Celebrations.

Week 12

Over view of all structure.