KONKANI RESOURCES FOR THOSE
WANTING TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE
OR JUST KEEP IN TOUCH
(SOME FREE, OTHERS PRICED,
DIFFERENT DIALECTS, SCRIPTS)
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An edited version of the points emerging
from a CLC session on March 16, 2022,
conducted by William O Rodrigues.
[A] KONKANI BASIC WORDLIST
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1.Konkani Basic WordList: This is a Konkani Basic
Word List (PDF) and could help to make language
learning easier. Improve your vocabulary, pick up
the most useful words. Konkani is a language
spoken on the west coast of India. Translated by
Isidore Dantas. Copyleft and freely
shareable.https://tinyurl.com/y8ctulhp
[B] INTERNET LEARNING RESOURCES
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1.Ten-part Konkani lessons for beginners by Dr Pratap Naik SJ
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PenyRHQlAAw] See other parts
of the same series. Other tutorials by Dr Pratap are also
available on YouTube. Search by name. More below.
2.Tatum DSouza 'Konkani School' Learn Konkani and Let's Have
Fun https://youtu.be/SVvNKRk8vMY Konkani is Kool With Tatum.
Also on the sites below. Interesting and well done:
Apple Music https://tinyurl.com/y8lx7xax
Gaana https://tinyurl.com/ybdt2vqu
JioSaavn https://tinyurl.com/ya7w88fu
Wynk https://tinyurl.com/ybe4uok7
(Tatum is from Victoria Parish, Mahim, her parents wer
eprominent tiatrists and artistes. Thanks to Yvonne for this
link. See especially: Learn 100 Konkani Sentences in 10
minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY7u4fTh_lk
3.Travel & Learn Konkani: Nalini Elivino Sousa, William O
Rodrigues and team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiWkB9EfpNw
See Top 10 Portuguese words used in Konkani/ Kokni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsbYM6I04w
4.Learn Konkani with Saurabh (many in the series) through
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbsgi_tiWGg
https://www.youtube.com/c/SaurabhKaisare
5.Konkani Speaking Class by Konkani Girl Malayalam (Kerala
Konkani, yes, Kerala is spoken by expat Goan communities
there too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56flsvkOBsU
6.Learn Konkani with Ramya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU_AO8aE-5o
7.Learning Konkani -- Fr Pratap Naik CCRTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywbRdsWdL40 Many in this
series. Search on YouTube.
8.TSKK's Konkani courses. Held periodically face-to-face, at
Alto Porvorim. See details:
http://www.tskk.org/course_list.php
[C] BOOKS
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1.A Konkani Grammar by Angelus Francis Xavier Maffei.
Available online, at archive.org. Copyright expired.
https://archive.org/details/akonkanigrammar00maffgoog
2.Oxford Picture Dictionary, English-Konkani by E.C.
Parnwell, Tômāsa Sṭīvansa Koṅkaṇī Kendra @ Broadway Book
Store, Panjim. Rare and probably out of print.
3.Hasun Khellun Shikuya @ Broadway Book Store, Panjim
4.Prof Edward D'Lima has a couple of good books on
conversations in certain situations. Romi and Devanagari.
Search for 'Spoken Konkani: A Self-learning Guide'
5.Fr Matthew Almeida's book TSKK Basic Course, published by
TSKK, Porvorim http://www.tskk.org These publications might
not be easily available in bookshops, if so, check with TSKK
at Porvorim.
6.List of publications by the Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr.
Interesting collection. Some out of print. This institution
is based at Alto Porvorim. Visit and check out titles
available. http://www.tskk.org/publication_list.php?type=B
[D] RADIO RESOURCES
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1.The 7:20 pm IST All India Radio regional (Goa) news on the
main channel in Panjim: Also Konkani programmes at some other
times of the day, interspersed with English, Marathi, Hindi
news, etc. https://onlineradiofm.in/stations/air-panaji
2.Rainbow FM (All India Radio Goa's FM channel) is
available during its normal broadcasting hours as a
smartphone app. Mostly 6-8 pm Goa time, and also
some morning hours:
https://onlineradiofm.in/goa/panaji/fm-rainbow
3.(i) Radio Mango in Toronto [https://radiomango.ca/] and
[https://soundcloud.com/user-905749001].
(ii) susegaad danpar A Konkani Radio Program, New Zealand.
(Mangalorean-Goan) Planet Audio site:
[https://www.planetaudio.org.nz/susegad-danpaar] or
[https://www.facebook.com/susegaddunpaar/] and
(iii) Konkani Uloi London Fuloi in Southampton, UK Awaaz FM
99.8 [https://www.awaazfm.co.uk/listen-back/konkani-show/]
[E] MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES
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1.LOTS of YouTube videos. Only a few with subtitles though.
Watch the classic Konkani film Nachoiia Kumpassar, with its
fascinating story, great cinemanatography, and lovely music.
2.Collaborative Learning Café
https://www.youtube.com/c/CollaborativeLearningCafe Holds
occasional, short-term langauge classes in Konkani,
Portuguese, Arabic, Spanish, etc. and on other topics,
mostly online, free and open to all (subject to seat capacity).
3.Konkani Bhasha Mandal: Educational, academic, videos of
event held https://www.youtube.com/c/KonkaniBhashaMandalGoa
Idioms, sayings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlKbf4p3CBU
Birds/Animals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amycyf6offI
4.Diverse Konkani links (text, mostly, copyright expired
some) via archive.org
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Konkani
* Konkani dictionaries
https://archive.org/search.php?query=konkani+dictionary
* Concanim https://archive.org/search.php?query=Concanim
5.Konkani Children's Songs
https://archive.org/details/KonkaniChildrensSongs
6.Konkani-Portuguese, Port-Konk dictionaries by Msgr
Sebastiao Dalgado
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Dalgado+Dictionary
7.Books that can help... to learn Konkani (2011)
https://youtu.be/QdysezediQ4
8.Saxtti Uloi, Goem Fuloi WhatsApp group. Promotes awareness
about the Saxtti dialect and Konkani
https://chat.whatsapp.com/KSPlpPUoTtfJKB1MgnhHHC
9.Saxtti Konkani three-minute tutorials by Dr Aida Dourado:
https://tinyurl.com/yctvgqsx
10.Nachoi-ia Kumpassar, a crowdfunded Konkani film. Trailer
is here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3r1Kz40tI4] Make
sure you put the English subtitles on, if needed. The full
film can also be watched online for a fee (Rs399 per day in
India, any number of shows) at
https://goaflix.com/content/nachom-ia-kumpasar/
[Thanks to William O Rodrigues, Kieran Gonsalves and other
participants for inputs. Edited by FN. E&OE If you have any
other links you'd like to add to this list, send it via
fredericknoron...@gmail.com or WhatsApp +91 9822122436.]
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