"Namaskara Geleyare! Let's Kannada blog ge nimagellarige mattomme aathmeeya swaagatha"
I know it's been a couple of weeks since my last blog post. Life got a little too hectic and I did not realize how the days passed.
Couple of weeks back when I was driving near my house, my car was hit by a bus as I waited at a traffic signal. The driver of the bus was drunk and I guess his responses were slow. Anyway, the guy just got away(and what happened afterwords is history). Thanks to him though, the car looks like a new one from behind :-)
Anyway, that incident also gave me the today's topic for the learn Kannada blog. During that incident, I figured out that it is very essential to be able to converse in the local language, to be able to understand what the other driver is saying (in most cases) and to be able to put your point across.
By the way "Taleharate" in Kannada can mean crazy talk or talking nonsense. Usually driving on roads especially in a place like Bangalore is maddening and people do "Taleharate"
So let us now learn some new sentences which can be useful while traveling on roads:
I know it's been a couple of weeks since my last blog post. Life got a little too hectic and I did not realize how the days passed.
Couple of weeks back when I was driving near my house, my car was hit by a bus as I waited at a traffic signal. The driver of the bus was drunk and I guess his responses were slow. Anyway, the guy just got away(and what happened afterwords is history). Thanks to him though, the car looks like a new one from behind :-)
Anyway, that incident also gave me the today's topic for the learn Kannada blog. During that incident, I figured out that it is very essential to be able to converse in the local language, to be able to understand what the other driver is saying (in most cases) and to be able to put your point across.
By the way "Taleharate" in Kannada can mean crazy talk or talking nonsense. Usually driving on roads especially in a place like Bangalore is maddening and people do "Taleharate"
So let us now learn some new sentences which can be useful while traveling on roads:
Kannada
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English
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Q: Driving license elli?
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Q: Where is your driving licence?
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A: Maneli marthu bande sir, station ge thandu kodla?
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A: I forgot it at home sir. Can I get it to your station?
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Q: Emission testing maadsilva? Fine katbekaaguthe
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Q Haven’t you done emission testing? You need to pay the
fine.
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Suppose someone honks continuously from behind, you could
use the following sentence:
-Yaakri horn haakthira, naan elli hogli? Munde traffic
kaanisalva?
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Suppose someone honks continuously from behind, you could
use the following sentence:
-Why are you honking continuously? Where can I go? Don’t you
see the traffic ahead?
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If you are being helpful and want to tell the driver in
front that the tyre has low air/or puncture:
Sir/Madam: tyre nalli gaali kadme ide.
Sir/Madam, tyre puncture aagi bittide.
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If you are being helpful and want to tell the driver in
front that the tyre has low air/or puncture:
Sir/Madam there is low air in the tyre.
Sir/Madam, you have a punctured tyre .
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-Illi ellaadru petrol bunk ideya?
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-Is there a petrol bunk nearby?
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-Mundina signal nalli traffic police idaare
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-There is a traffic police in the next signal
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-left indicator haaki right hogthiralri?
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- You have the left indicator on, but you are taking a
right turn?
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Someone is driving too fast and you want to give them some
free advice:
-Yaakri ishtondu avasara? Manege hogo aase ilva?
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Someone is driving too fast and you want to give them some
free advice:
-Why are you driving so rash? Don’t you want to go home?
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Well, and ofcourse there is this generic phrase which you can use to vent out your anger:
Ri kannu kaanisalva?
Which simply means "Are you blind?"
