We had just celebrated Karnataka Rajyotsava .
It is so nice to see that people feel proud of what they are
and what they understand, speak as mother tongue.
This respect and connection with root gave me enough input
to write this reflection.
It is impotent to understand why we should stay connected to
our root.
*Core concepts are easily understood in mother tongue as our
mind do not need to work on translation .
*A language can be means of communication but mother tongue
is way of expression.
*One can reside at a place and speak foreign language to
earn and explore but native things gives the vibe one enjoy.
The world today is so monetized that we find it very easy to
learn a newly created language(programming languages) to communicate to a
machine.
Unfortunately at the same time we find our self so reluctant
to learn a new language to communicate to a human being to the core of their
heart.
To understand this behavior we need to understand what
motivates us to learn a new thing ?
- Money
- People
- Surrounding
- Situation
Most of us stop at point 1 until we are bond to expand
our boundaries or screwed in remaining of above options.
99% people I know are very good at English in spite it is
not their mother tongue, it shows they have good trainability factor in
linguistics.
Many people asked me how I learnt so many language.
The role model who influenced me to learn new languages is
my Dad.
He had studied from Manipal and he knew bit of Kannada.
To keep us(me and siblings) settled while dinner on dining
table he use to tell us few words from Kannada like “uppu”(Salt) ”kodi”(give).
We use to feel so wow of Dad and finish food listening to
his stories and words from different languages. We used to be excited by the
stories
of his real life experiences.
The second major motivation was Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao.
When he became Prime minister he was introduced as one who
knows 17 languages and can speak fluently in many of them.
My tender mind felt that it is possible to learn many
language and this clicked me to learn more and more languages.
I had just started my schooling then and I was newly
introduced to English as second language.
I decided to learn as many languages I can in my life.
Since then I started searching for a chance to get any
possible exposer to a new language.
When I was in middle school I got exposer to Telugu and first thing I learnt was “Annam tinnawa?”.
I got this opportunity because there was a new tenant in our
house from Andhra.
Uncle was in CRPF and was able to speak good Hindi whereas
aunty could not understand Hindi.
I took this as an opportunity and we started to communicate
in sign language and combination of our own created language.
Any unsettled communication was settled only when uncle was
back from his duty.
Next was Tamil and Marathi when I was in high school and
competing for President award from Scout and Guide.
We had teams from different parts of India. There was a task
to make at least 5 pen friends.
During this I came across Archana from Chennai and Pinky
from Belgaum.
In every exchange of letters we exchanged words and meaning
of few words from our mother tongue.
The major exposer I got when I shifted to Bangalore for my
BE.
My mind was ready to accept language with a good workout and
things rolled very swiftly.
Now coming back to what can motivate to learn new language
other than money is “signal to mind that it is possible”.
Learning a new language is always useful much more in today's world since the world is getting smaller and smaller. Inspite of that one should always be proud of their mother tongue. Good article 👍
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