A course in spoken Sinhala written for foreign learners, by Edwin Ranawaka. The method it follows builds on the principles of basic English, so the learner approaches Sinhala speech through structures and vocabulary already familiar from simple English, rather than through grammatical description for its own sake.
The text is Sinhala and English together. The emphasis throughout is on the spoken language — the Sinhala that is actually used in conversation, as distinct from the written and literary forms that a formal grammar would put first.
It is published by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd of Colombo, a Sri Lankan house publishing in Sinhala and English, and it is aimed at visitors, residents and students from abroad who want working speech in a reasonably short time rather than a full academic grounding in the language.
- Author: Edwin Ranawaka
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala-English
- ISBN: 9789552100666
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