I think learning one's mother tongue is not overemphasing on one language. Rather, it will be easier to pick up the mother tongue most easily than a foreign language if he/she grows up at his/her mother land.
This will also help him/her to pick up the basic things about life, Nature, environment most easily than with a foreign language. If a person is strong enough in his/her own language, learning other languages will also not that. In case of Assam, most of the people know Hindi by default (thanx to the TV programmes, Biharis/Marwaries and middle level curriculam in schools) and learns English (however lot of changes may be necessary in the methods adopted) upto XII standards and beyond. So, with these 3 languages (Mother Tongue, Hindi and English) in one's kitty, I think working at any part of India will not be problem for an Assamese atleast. Gautam CHoudhury ----- Original Message ---- From: SANDIP DUTTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, 4 November, 2006 10:52:41 AM Subject: [asom] Re: Brikodar Baruar Biya Wish Amlan all the best in getting a Dhuniya Axomiya soyali soon. Just wanted to make some observations. I fully aggree with you on the need to learn one's own mother toungue. That should be part of the growing up process where you learn about your own culture. However what you observed in Germany or Holland may be good for them since they are countries with few groups speaking anything apart from their German or Dutch as their mother toungue. The ones who come in from abroad on the lookout for oppurtunities are automatically expected to fall in line. However this situation cannot succeed in India where you have SO MANY languages. Here, overemphasis on one's mother toungue can only lead to disaster. Over here, we are in a phase where we need more people to be able to travel and work freely in any part of India, quickly move about and generate more oppurtunities not only for their own but for others as well. They should be able to work in an environment free of language, caste and creed hangups because that is the only way forward for India. Even if you take Assam's case, everyone does not want to call Assamese their mother toungue inspite of being sons of the soil. So if everyone starts learning only Assamese, Boro or Bengali as the case may be, where does that leave us. Maybe the girls speaking Hinglish sounded offensive to you but atleast they are trying and that is the language of the new Indian generation all over the country, like it or not. Since only English and Hindi can qualify to unify the nation, more and more of us should learn them however so we can. Rgds, SD Re: Amlan's email http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/assamonlin e/message/ 2704 ------------ --------- --------- ------ moderator edited, assamonline Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
