Learn Gujarati in 30 Days

Pages: 160

Author's Preface
The learned public are already aware of the National Integration Languages series published by the Balaji Publications.
On the request of the many we are now placing before the public another book to learn Gujarati through the medium of English.
Gujarati is a language of Mahatma Gandhiji, the Father of our Nation. It is spoken in the state of Gujarat. Narasimha Maheto was the first poet, whose song of "Vaishnava janato tene kathiya" melted the heart of Mohandas Karamhand Gandhi and made him Mahatma.
Gujarati is a sweet and melodious language. Dhumaketu. Umashankar Joshi, Sundaram, K. M. Munshi Pannalai etc are famous writers in Gujarati.
There is a good gap between English and Gujararti Gujarati contains 45 letter while English has only 26. Therefore we have given dialectical marks to the letters to pronounce the letter correctly.
This book is divided into five parts. The first part gives complete information about the alphabet. As in Hindi in Gujarati too the vowel 'a' is not pronounced fully in certain words. So we have given pronunciation for the words in this chapter.
The Second Part deals with Gujarati commodities and the names of animals, birds etc. in this chapter about 500 words have been given with their gender, pronunciation and meaning.
In the Third Part one can learn to form simple sentences. And also the forms of conversation on useful topics.
The Fourth Part deals with grammer and contains simple rules regarding number, gender etc.
The Fifth Part consists of short stories which are famous in Gujarat and some simple and useful letters.
It is hoped that this book will be a great help for National Integration. We are confident that this publication will find good appreciation from the general public and that we will meet with good encouragement at their hands or the publication of si