This book is the outcome of the author long association with the American Peace Corps in training the volunteers and in the preparation of teaching materials. This is intended to serve as a guide both for the teacher as well as the learner. It is meant to help the non-Kannada speaker to grasp not only the structure of the language and use it as tool of communication on matters of day-to-day requirement but also to know the cultural peculiarities the Kannada speaking people.