Telugu (తెలుగు)

[vijayjohn]

Somebody uploaded all the songs from Manushulu Marali on YouTube. I wonder how long they'll still be up there! But here they are for now in the order they presumably appear in in the movie, with the exception of the last song I posted here just one day after these were uploaded:

"Satyame" (I'm assuming this is a blessing playing before the title credits start)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4KFhGgzv7k
"Manushulu Marali" (skips a small part of the song in the beginning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVcZfTGhy3s
"Bhoomatha Eenaadu" (possibly my favorite song in this movie, and definitely my favorite version of this song compared to the original Malayalam, Tamil version, and Bollywood version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pzb-e9vCYU
"Holiday Jollyday"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYSADpu9Ys
"Cheekatilo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73i2ZKgGs00
"Papayi Navvaali"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNYlzAfDvsg
"Aruna Pathaakam" (anyone of my favorite songs from this movie, although I just discovered it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1jSunzKMsw
"Mosam Dwesham"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ynCWwMJnM

[Ser]

Just came here to say that somebody opened a thread on Telugu at the Language Learners forum, and they have found quite a number of useful resources.

https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6602

[vijayjohn]

Thanks, Serafín!

I should probably try to see whether I can learn Telugu from those links. I'm naturally inclined to be extremely skeptical, though.

[księżycowy]

I can't say whether this was in the links that Serafín was talking about or not, but I'm still surprised no-one has mentioned this yet:
http://www.learningtelugu.org/
Which actually has lessons with audio.

Maybe not the best set-up for the lessons, but it's not bad either.

There's also this book:
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.371094
(which, much like a lot of the CIIL materials, has printing issues on some pages)

[vijayjohn]

No one's been learning Telugu in a long time here, I guess!

[księżycowy]

It was thanks to Serafín that I even bothered to came back over to the SAL subforum anyway. So I figured I'd help out a bit.

[vijayjohn]

This is a pretty late reply, but thanks for doing that!

[księżycowy]

Np.

[vijayjohn]

Just posting a couple of old movie songs - well, okay, the first of these two songs is actually a classic Carnatic song from the 18^th century IIRC. It's "Nagumomu Ganaleni," a composition by Thyagaraja, but this is a clip from a Malayalam(!) movie called Chitram (1988), actually, of this song being performed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz9C3dT_-xQ
"Palletori Pillagada" is a song from Telangana-themed movie Ma Bhoomi (1979). It's all about how ordinary people, including the boy featured in this song, were (and are) exploited by the system in the area and how a lot of people in this area, as I understand it, accused the government of Andhra Pradesh of ignoring the problem. This eventually led to Telangana splitting off from Andhra Pradesh three years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhv1DElVuI

[vijayjohn]

These are a couple of Kuchipudi dances with songs in the background that I'm pretty sure are in Telugu (the only possible alternative I'm aware of for the choice of language is Sanskrit, i.e. I don't know of any songs that would be used in a Kuchipudi performance that would be in a language other than Telugu or Sanskrit). The song "Swamirara" (a.k.a. Krishna Shabdam?) is sung by (Srimati) Radha Badri; the dancer's name is Sandhya Raju:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbRX_cdTap8
This is another called "Mamavathu Sri Saraswathi" sung by Nitya Santhoshini; the dancer in this one is named Yamini Kalluri:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrOHfCgbcWc