Vrishvardhan Sharma वृषवर्धनः शर्मा
The Kannada Vardhan app icon.

Application iOS and Android Free

Spoken Kannada, learned the way a mother tongue is.

Kannada Vardhan is a language bridge for newcomers to Bengaluru. Speak naturally in Hindi or English and hear the colloquial Bengaluru Kannada back, then practise it in real situations: an auto rickshaw, a vegetable seller, a cup of filter coffee. No streaks to protect, no leaderboards, no notification pressure.

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The story behind it

A translation in progress: an English sentence about trekking to Coorg rendered into colloquial Kannada with phonetic, English and Hindi lines and a word by word glossary.

1,023

vocabulary cards

Verbs, nouns, pronouns and conversational phrases

50+

roleplay scenarios

Written from the situations a newcomer actually meets

100+

speaking tips

On politeness, filler words and the spoken register

0

streaks, leaderboards and notifications

Free, with no advertising and nothing to unlock

The method

Nobody hands a child a grammar book first.

A mother tongue arrives in one order, and the app keeps that order rather than the order a textbook would impose.

  1. Listen.

    Speak in English, Hindi or Hinglish and hear it come back as colloquial Bengaluru Kannada, in audio, in script, and in phonetics.

  2. Guess.

    Try the sentence yourself before the app tells you anything. The guess is the part that makes it stick.

  3. Be corrected.

    A word by word glossary shows exactly where the guess went wrong, without marking it wrong.

  4. Say it again.

    Screen free pocket loops repeat the day's phrases while you are doing something else, which is how a child hears a language a thousand times before speaking it.

What is inside

A toolkit for the way Bengaluru actually speaks.

Immersion
Speak in Hindi or English, hear the colloquial Bengaluru Kannada translation instantly
Roleplay
More than fifty real life scenarios, from bargaining with an auto driver to ordering filter coffee
Vocabulary
1,023 cards, organised into decks: verbs, nouns, adverbs and more
Practice
Two minute quizzes, spaced repetition flash reviews, and screen free audio loops
Alphabet and grammar
Interactive guides to vowels, consonants, conjuncts and everyday sentence structure
Daily news
The day's top news, translated into bilingual audio
Cost
Free. No advertising, no tracking, no subscription

Screens

Inside the app.

The Kannada Vardhan home screen, Immerse and Speak, with a tip of the day explaining the filler word andre and a gold Tap Speak dial beneath it.
A translation in progress: an English sentence about trekking to Coorg rendered into colloquial Kannada with phonetic, English and Hindi lines and a word by word glossary.
The Roleplay Hub, offering a custom skit generator and fifty scenarios including bargaining with an auto driver and negotiating a rent rise in Koramangala.
The Practice Hub: a two minute quiz, an evening loop, a daily news audio loop, audio tutorials, scenario tests and free talk.
The Timeline Ledger of saved translations, each showing the spoken original, the Kannada, its phonetics and meaning, and tappable word by word chips.
The vocabulary matrix: a daily flash review above category decks holding 1,023 cards in total, split into verbs, nouns, pronouns, conversational phrases and more.
The pronouns deck open at nanu, the Kannada for I, with its English and Hindi equivalents, a consolidation strength bar and hesitated or fluent practice feedback.
The Kannada alphabets hub, open on conjunct consonants, each card giving the letter, its transliteration and an example word.
The grammar hub, open at the imperative mood, with the rules for casual and polite commands and spoken examples of each.
Speaking tips: cards on politeness, covering the ri suffix for instant respect, plural respectful pronouns and the traditional polite farewell.
The Immerse and Speak home screen on Android, with the Tap Speak dial and the tip of the day.
The about and philosophy page, carrying the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat dedication and an explanation of the method.
The Daily News Spoken Loop, playing a news item in Kannada with its Hindi translation below and a choice of English or Hindi voice.
Evening Reflection, the audio pocket loop, showing the phrase ellu illa with its transliteration and a session timer.

Fourteen screens, swipe to see them all

The language of the place you have moved to should not stay closed to you.
एक भारत श्रेष्ठ भारत

On film

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Free, ad free, and built for Bengaluru.

Dedicated to एक भारत श्रेष्ठ भारत, Ek Bhārat Śreṣṭha Bhārat, and to a city that welcomed him.

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