Welcome to world of Gujarati

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Note :-  The right hand side of the blog shows "Blog Archive". Expand it fully to see a whole list of posts for learning Gujarati. Learn Gujarati grammar and many aspects the Gujarati language
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Please use my new website 
All lessons from this blog and more are available there
Hi friends,
Welcome to World of Gujarati. I am Kaushik. I am the author of two popular blogs to 
Learn Marathi from English kaushiklele-learnmarathi.blogspot.com
and 
Learn Marathi from Hindi learn-marathi-from-hindi-kaushiklele.blogspot.com  

 After these successful blogs, I have decided to start a similar project to help people "Learn Gujarati from English"
Here I am trying to introduce you to the fundamentals of Gujarati through English. But in some places I have taken help of examples from Hindi.

Hindi and Gujarati have similar scripts; except few alphabets. The pronunciation of the letters is the same. So for those who can read & write Hindi, reading Gujarati is easy. They will save time learning pronunciation.
So if you know Hindi, this journey to learn Gujarati will be comparatively easy.
But those who do not know Hindi need not feel upset. They just need to put little more effort into learning script and pronunciation.

My own experience says that reading the language from its own script helps a lot. So learn Gujarati script first. So learning Gujarati will be easier if you read it directly from Gujarati  instead of Romanized.

For most of the examples transliteration is given in Roman script is as well. This is for convenience of search-ability on internet.

 While learning the language, a student is very excited and wants to speak full sentences as early as possible. He wants to be able to communicate from day 1. Obviously it will not be possible, because you have just used few words !! you can not communicate everything from these few words. Realization of this fact de-motivates the student. Many language learning programs shower the student with a list of full sentences. This looks good at first, but it does not teach how to prepare sentence. So although you know 100 sentences, you are unable to create 101st sentence yourself.
Here comes the necessity of learning grammar.

Students think that learning grammar is tedious and try to run away from it. Spoon feeding i.e. list of pre-created sentences will just keep you handicapped. So learn grammar, stand on your own feet and enjoy the journey.

So I have decided to keep fine balance between “ready made sentences” and grammar. So by speaking ready-made-full sentences you can keep alive you excitement. And by grammar you will nurture your foundation.

You can master the pronunciation of Gujarati by watching audio-video clips of these lessons at my YouTube channel.
YouTube Channel name :- Learn Gujarati through English with Kaushik Lele
https://www.youtube.com/c/LearnGujaratithroughEnglishwithKaushikLele

So friends let us start the journey. Welcome to the world of Gujarati.  The language having history of around 1000 years, rich with its literature, philosophy, widespread influence in society.
Welcome !!!
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Note :-  The right hand side of the blog shows "Blog Archive". Expand it fully to see a whole list of posts for learning Gujarati. Learn Gujarati grammar and many aspects the Gujarati language

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Comments

  1. Unknown20 December 2013 at 14:47

    brilliant work keep it up...it is really useful to learn as a second language.

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    1. Learn Marathi by Kaushik Lele21 December 2013 at 10:18

      Hi Jashu, thanks for appreciation.
      From you surname, you seem to be Gujarati. So are you learning Gujarati or came across with this site for someone else. In either case, I would like to know your more of your feedback. If you are a native Gujarati speaker I would request you to help me develop this site further. Please mail me at learnMarathifast@gmail.com

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  2. Unknown20 February 2014 at 12:21

    I want to thank you so much, I am an American woman married to a Gujarati man. I have wanted to learn the language for so long, but Gujarati is not commonly taught, and for my English grammar, is hard for me to understand. Finally I found your videos on YouTube. Though I have just started, I can pleasantly say your teaching method has taught me more than anything else, you make it very easy to learn.I will keep you updated with my progress, Becoming fluent in Gujarati is a necessity to me, as speaking to my family would be easier, and I also want to raise our children with Gujarati as their first language, and not to mention the bonus of speaking with my husband in his mother tongue. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
    Rachael Patel

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    1. Learn Marathi by Kaushik Lele20 February 2014 at 21:11

      Hi Rachael, Thanks a lot for appreciation.
      Such appreciation reassures me that I am doing an important work and that too in a correct way. This motivates me to keep developing my blogs further.

      All the best for learning. Can you send me mail me at learnMarathifast@gmail.com ? So that I can send you updates; also we can discuss in case of any problem in detail.

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    2. Anonymous28 November 2016 at 10:37

      Really ? How to learn it ?

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    3. Learn Marathi by Kaushik Lele28 November 2016 at 18:43

      Learn by reading blog lessons.

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  3. Juliana13 May 2014 at 19:18

    Thank you very much for making these videos!

    My family is Gujarati, but they did not teach me because they thought English was more important to learn to succeed in Canada. I have asked to be taught many times, but until now I could not find resources that showed me the grammar and how verbs are conjugated and things like that. The other day, I made a family tree in Gujarati with my grandparents and they were very happy! Thank you!

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    1. Learn Marathi by Kaushik Lele13 May 2014 at 20:24

      Hi Juliana, Thanks for your comment and appreciation. I am very happy that I could help you in learning Gujarati.
      Such appreciation reassures me that I am doing an important work and that too in a correct way. This motivates me to keep developing my blogs further.

      All the best for learning. Can you send me mail me at learnMarathifast@gmail.com ? So that I can send you updates; also we can discuss in case of any problem in detail.

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  4. Unknown27 September 2016 at 15:10

    What an excellent blog! Your explanations are so simple to follow and so logical (i guess thats the software engineer in you!). Many thanks from a non-indian Gujarati learner in England. ........ I haven't looked at the youtube videos yet but the written blogs are an excellent compliment to the gujarati lessons i am having and you explain things my tutor cannot..

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    1. Learn Marathi by Kaushik Lele27 September 2016 at 19:18

      Thanks Ben for appreciation. Today I checked mails in morning and saw yours as first mail. It really made my day and motivated me to keep going.

      I would like to know more about your gujrati learning and experience with my site and your feedback. Can you please mail me on learnmarathifast@gmail.com (id is same for my guj and marathi blog)

      Thanks,
      Kaushik

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  5. Unknown25 July 2017 at 09:31

    I am SO grateful for your blog! I've been wanting to learn Gujarati but I hadn't found a reliable resource until I found your blog. Without such a well produced blog/youtube I don't think I would have learned Gujarati until I found an expensive sit in class. I can learn at my own pace and being able to listen to the slow pronunciation as well as the Barakhadi/Barakshari is invaluable. Your explanations also make reading and writing so much easier. I hope you keep teaching, there are probably a lot of people on here that love your language blogs that have been too shy to comment on how great it is.

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    1. Learn Marathi by Kaushik Lele25 July 2017 at 10:18

      Thanks Amangelin. I am overwhelmed by your appreciation. Such kind words give me sense of achievement and motivate me to keep going.

      I would like to know more about your gujrati learning and experience with my site and your feedback. Can you please mail me on learnmarathifast@gmail.com (id is same for my guj and marathi blog)

      Thanks,
      Kaushik

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  6. Gayathrri Suresh10 August 2018 at 09:49

    Hi.. am new to the language. I am a tamilian but wanted to learn the language.. i guess you could help me with it.

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    1. Learn Marathi by Kaushik Lele17 September 2018 at 10:39

      Sure I will. We can interact in detail if you could send me mail on LearnMarathiFast@gmail.com, that will be great. ID is same for my all language activities.

      - Kaushik

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  7. Vivek P12 June 2019 at 13:07

    Hello! I used to speak Gujarati and Hindi as a child, but slowly lost the language after my parents separated. I am very close to my whole family still and would love to learn them again. At home, it's tricky learning because I didn't have any resources to learn grammar and strong foundations until now. I just started your lessons and I am very eager. I can't wait to speak with the 100s of my family that don't speak English.

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    1. Learn Marathi by Kaushik Lele12 June 2019 at 19:35

      Nice to read that. We can interact in detail if you could send me mail on LearnMarathiFast@gmail.com (ID is same for my all language activities).

      Thanks,
      Kaushik

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  8. itani8 October 2019 at 02:30

    Thankyou , so helpful :)

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    1. Learn Marathi by Kaushik Lele8 October 2019 at 19:20

      May I know your name please. Are you learning Gujarati from my tutorials?
      - Kaushik

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