Hi Victor, Yes, unfortunately, many of us Goans -- like the proverbial ostrich -- like to stick our heads in the ground and not watch the world around us -- confining our interest to the well in which we consider ourselves "big frogs".
Today as one moves from State to State in India it is becoming more and more difficult to get about -- road signs and destination boards on buses are written in the State language -- knowledge of the Devnagri script helps in all the Hindi belt states, Maharashtra -- but not in the South. Konkani, when written in the Roman script, is extremely difficult to PRONOUNCE correctly -- but when written in the Devnagri or Kanada scripts (both PHONETIC) pronounciation is automatically correct. So by choice many of us want to remain illiterate -- since the meaning of being literate is being able to read (correctly) and write our own language ........ Cheers -- let us resolve during this year 2005 to become literate in Konkani -- either by learning through Roman script supported with a CD or audio tape that gives us the correct pronounciation or by being able to read the same Konkani words when written in Devnagri or Kanada scripts. Happy New Year Aloysius ----- Original Message ----- From: "v. fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet]Konkani course with CD > > --- Aloysius D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Isabel, Wishing you .....There has been reference....... you > have brought out a course of studies to enable an illiterate (in > Devnagari or Kanada) to correctly learn to pronounce Konkani > words......... > Thank you > > Aloysius > Comment:seems strange that 'an illiterate'(who cannot read or > write {in any language}can correctly learn to pronounce Konkani > words.... > v.f
