As has been mentioned earlier, this feature is not an attempt to teach Konkani. The main aim of this section is to give readers an idea of the structure of the language. Gone are the days when one used to learn a language by studying its grammar and vocabulary. I don’t recommend that method to learn Konkani, simply because it doesn’t work, which is why it has been discarded all the world over as a language learning technique. We shall therefore cater to our visitors’ Konkani learning needs in the Spoken Konkani section, which we shall try to extend even towards written Konkani. This corner therefore will not be used for that purpose but just to present an analysis of the structure of the language, an analysis of its grammar.
However, there is a close relationship between Konkani Grammar and Spoken Konkani. When one learns a language, one cannot entirely ignore the grammar. So within Spoken Konkani there will be regular references to Konkani Grammar as well as to Konkani vocabulary. My aim is to push as much grammar as possible onto the vocabulary so that, while learning a Konkani word which is a verb, for instance, one will do well to learn not just the bare verb, but the verb along with its principal parts as well, as they do when learning Latin, and this will facilitate the learning of its conjugations. Konkani nouns and adjectives will be similarly treated in order to facilitate the learning of their declensions.
So the main two sub-sections of Konkani Grammar will be conjugations of verbs and declensions of nouns, pronouns and adjectives.