Kagunita English

When you learn a new language, don’t erase your mother tongue—let it hold your hand.

Lakshmi Akka smiled. She picked up a chalk piece and drew the Kannada Kagunita chart— ಕ, ಕಾ, ಕಿ, ಕೀ… (ka, kaa, ki, kee). Then she did something magical. She wrote next to it: kagunita english

Kannada is an , a type of writing system where each character represents a consonant-vowel pair rather than a single letter like the English alphabet. Kagunita, Kāguṇita: 1 definition When you learn a new language, don’t erase