Telugu at Berkeley (Part 1/2)

Telugu is the third most spoken language in India and within the top 15 in the world. It has an extensive body of literature and a rich history.

The toil of a few amazing people has finally brought a Telugu language class to Berkeley (which already offers courses on a variety of languages from the Indian subcontinent).

Telugu will be offered at the elementary and intermediate levels in the 2010-11 academic year. You don't need to have prior knowledge of this beautiful language to take the class.

If you are a Berkeley student, the beginning class is listed as Telugu 1A. The intermediate class is currently under South and Southeast Asian Studies 149 (where our lovely administration spelled "Telugu" wrong). We would like to get a lot of people to take the class, so please enroll!

Subtitles added for those of you who don't speak Telugu (yet)!

For more information on the Telugu Studies Initiative, go to http://www.friendsoftelugu.org/UCB/
or
http://southasia.berkeley.edu/the_telugu_studies_initiative.php

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[jasm7890]

Sorry, but the video is not complete unless you interview atleast one white christian who is interested in studying Telugu so that he could do missionary work in Andhra. Students who take this class out of love for their parents' culture should be wary of christian imperialists sitting next to them in the class.

[TeluguAtBerkeley]

@jasm7890 Perhaps outside Berkeley, but in this class, all of the non-Telugu students I knew were interested in the language because they wanted to be able to communicate with a significant other's family and teach their children the language.

[TeluguAtBerkeley]

If you are at Berkeley, sign up for Telugu this fall semester! Beginning Telugu is listed as Telugu 1A, and intermediate as South and Southeast Asian Studies 149.

[MykeSoBe]

Why don't they have Tamil! Telugu is just as nice a language but I am learning Tamil! Of course, Tamil is India's second most popular language, and will probably soon become number one!

[TeluguAtBerkeley]

Chill out, they do in fact have Tamil (as well as Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, and I think Sanskrit). In fact, they've had it a while longer than Telugu and they have it up to higher levels.

This video was made a couple years ago because the Telugu language program had just started. We wanted to make sure people knew it actually existed and encourage them to take the class.

[vmillansim]

Aaaargh! That squeaky chalk board!!

[TeluguAtBerkeley]

Yeah...sorry about that...

We didn't film it in the usual room (because it was locked).

[2ndOfficerCHL]

I wish my college offered Telugu back when I was in it. I'm an American with no Indian background at all trying to learn Telugu, at it's very hard to find learning resources. I was able to get a copy of the C.P. Brown grammar of the Telugu language as well as a more current phrasebook, but it's still difficult.

Telugu chala andamga unnadi....hope I said that write.

[TubaGlider2]

@jasm7890 What if the white person isn't an English WASP?

[this1wasnttaken]

I'm so jealous! I wish my college offered Telugu. It's vital we all keep out culture and religion in tack; it's too easy these days to loose our history and essence of who we are. I get scared every time I think about how I'd be able to pass on this info to my future kids when I hardly know it myself. That's why it's up to us as the 2nd/3rd/4th generation Indian youth to learn and pass on our culture!!

Keep it up Berkeley :)

[devd229]

@MykeSoBe

Sorry buddy to disappoint u but number 2 language is punjabi, 3 is telugu, THEN at 4 is tamil.

[AkuKiniKembali]

This is what we call "Lupa Daratan" or "Lupa Asal Asul". It means, you are no longer know to speak your mother language or even origin if you were raised up in foreign country. Who should be blamed. Their parents! To shame their own original identity!. The victims are their kids!

[Reddylion]

nice...............

[hatke159]

@jasm7890 Exactly... very well said....

[Praba2281]

Now, Telugu is 2nd most widely spoken language in India. Among the top 15 in the world is correct. 6th most widely spoken languge in the world. Nice 2cu people who belong to other races also learning & talking Telugu..

[anu2624]

where r the videos related which will actually teach Telugu?