Learners know exactly what they cannot do. Almost none of them know what they already have. Class two hundred stops teaching and takes stock: the sound system down to ഴ (zha), the script, the verb, the noun, the sentence, the social rules and the context behind them. It then says plainly that two hundred classes make nobody fluent, and names the three things that decide whether fluency arrives. It closes with what comparing Malayalam with about forty languages actually shows. Key Malayalam words for this topic: ആണ് (aanu) – is ചേട്ടാ (chettaa) – elder brother (calling someone) സാർ (saar) – sir നീ (nee) – you (intimate) നിങ്ങൾ (ningal) – you (polite or plural) അക്ഷരം (aksharam) – letter of the script ക്രിയ (kriya) – verb നാമം (naamam) – noun വാക്യം (vaakyam) – sentence ഉച്ചാരണം (uchaaranam) – pronunciation In this class: • The inventory: sounds, script, verb, noun and sentence • Social rules: when to say ചേട്ടാ (chettaa, elder brother) or സാർ (saar, sir), and never നീ (nee) to a landlord • Why fluency happens after a course, unevenly and invisibly • The three deciding factors: production, one person, and being bad in public Quizzes below. Dr. Reshmi R Nair — SpeakMalayalam.