[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Selma wrote: >This is shocking to hear that in Goa itself >one was fined for speaking in >Konkani. It's very difficult to save a language when one gets a lashing for speaking it. >Comment: It is too farfetched to believe that the decline of a language is due to its being banned from being spoken in >school. This policy is common all over the country in many schools even those run by gujaratis, parsis and others.
I Know of Institutes like the Goethe Institute which teach German by making students attend a residential course where German and nothing but German is spoken. This comment is offered for what its worth Tony -- Tony de Sa Ph: +91 832 2470148 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M: +91 9975 162 897 ----------------------------------------------------------- Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. - Jack Nicklaus ------------------------------------------------------------
