Professional Kannada for the Workplace (L5)

By the end

What you'll build

• Speak to colleagues, seniors and customers in the correct formal register — ನೀವು (nīvu) forms, honorific ಅವರು (avaru), and formal imperatives
• Introduce yourself and your role professionally and manage first-week office conversations
• Participate in meetings: ask questions, agree, disagree politely and commit to deadlines in Kannada
• Run a complete customer-service conversation — greet, understand the problem, apologize, reassure and close
• Make polite requests, refuse gracefully and offer alternatives using dative constructions and softeners
• Catch and fix the classic learner errors: honorific agreement, nīvu/nīnu mix-ups and dative-subject mistakes
• Write short professional chat messages and formal emails using the ವಿಷಯ / ಮಾನ್ಯರೇ / ವಂದನೆಗಳು architecture
• Type core Kannada office vocabulary accurately on a phone-style keypad
• Deliver a structured two-minute spoken status update in Kannada
• Code-switch between Kannada and English with cultural awareness and respect

Curriculum

What's inside

6 modules · 38 lessons

1. 01

   The Professional Register — Respect in Grammar

   7 lessons
   • Welcome to Professional Kannada (L5)
   • Office Word Power — ಕಚೇರಿ ಪದಕೋಶword power
   • ನೀವು vs ನೀನು — The Respect System at Work
   • Casual → Polite: Transform Itfill blank
   • Listening: First Day at the Officelistening lab
   • + 2 more lessons
2. 02

   Meetings & Team Talk — ಸಭೆಯಲ್ಲಿ

   6 lessons
   • Meeting Word Power — ಸಭೆಯ ಪದಗಳುword power
   • Meeting Survival Phrases — Agree, Disagree, Clarify
   • Listening: The Monday Standuplistening lab
   • Sentence Builder: Meeting Sentencessentence builder
   • Speaking: Speak Up in the Meetingspeaking lab
   • + 1 more lesson
3. 03

   Customer-Facing Kannada — ಗ್ರಾಹಕ ಸೇವೆ

   7 lessons
   • The Service Conversation — Greet, Understand, Resolve, Close
   • Customer Service Word Powerword power
   • Listening: The Support Calllistening lab
   • Pronunciation: Courtesy Sounds That Matterpronunciation card
   • Apology & Reassurance Patternsfill blank
   • + 2 more lessons
4. 04

   Requests, Refusals & Code-Switching — ವಿನಂತಿಯ ಕಲೆ

   6 lessons
   • Polite Requests & Soft Refusals
   • Error Clinic: Fix the Mistakefill blank
   • Listening: Asking the Manager for Leavelistening lab
   • Code-Switching Etiquette — Kannada, English, and Respect
   • Flashcards: Requests & Refusals Deckflashcard sr
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Professional Writing — ಸಂದೇಶ ಮತ್ತು ಇಮೇಲ್

   5 lessons
   • Short Professional Messages — Chat & Email Architecture
   • Type It in Kannada — Office Wordslipi type
   • Complete the Formal Emailfill blank
   • Writing Lab — The Leave-Request Messagewriting lab
   • Flashcards: Written Formulas Deckflashcard sr
6. 06

   Present & Perform — The Workplace Capstone

   7 lessons
   • The Two-Minute Status Update — Structure
   • Speaking: Deliver Your Update Aloudspeaking lab
   • Listening: A Colleague's Updatelistening lab
   • Roleplay Capstone — A Day at the Officeinterview lab
   • Final Review — Professional Kannadaquiz
   • + 2 more lessons

The shape of it

How this course works