On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Jeremy Bornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > I find > > it an interesting language, and useful from the brain engineering > > point of view more than anything else. > > Apologies, I of course totally understand that motivation, and have > picked up a couple of languages in my past for no other reason other > than that they sounded interesting. > > Cheeni >
I must agree that whenever I took up a language course, the inevitable reaction was, "Why are you learning it?" I had only the Cheeni reason to offer! Having said that, I must say that foreign languages are taught much better than Indian languages here (in India I mean)...the latter are taught like school subjects and there is no hearing/speaking exercise at all. And there is such a stress on grammar that the fun of learning the language is lost. The basic Sanskrit course that I took ended in an exam which was just a grammar/maths paper....though the teacher did try to speak only in Sankrit, the students were not responsive, and were very bothered about the marks they would get in the exam. I did not like the approach and since there were not enough students for the nextlevel course, I did not pursue it further...and have forgotten all that I learnt, which is what happens when I stop learning a language after the entry-level course. Deepa. >
