Yesterday I have mentioned about the importance of Tamizh language in order to understand the valuable works Azhwars and great Mahans’. While responding to that post Sridhar Vasudevan mentioned that in his house they speak only Tamizh. This point triggered something in my mind, Hence this post. Today let’s look at the same subject from different perspective. Somet...
imes it makes me uncomfortable when people are not using their mother tongue while they communicating each other. Again I have to use the same phrase “In general people think that they will get more attention if they converse in English even at home”. To show all in that family are educated and has fluency in English. Well having fluency in English is always a welcome sign. But do we really need to converse in English at home? The answer is big NO.
One can clearly convey things only in his/her mother tongue and not in any other language. Some may dispute this point but the fact is that mother tongue is the only language which conveys your emotions, feel to the other person very clearly without any ambiguity.
Unlike olden days we are not giving importance to one’s mother tongue. Many of us having mind set that if we know English and if we speak English well, then we can achieve anything in our life. This is very wrong statement. Last week there was a talk show at Vijay TV. The name of the talk show is “Neeya Naana?”. The same subject was analyzed in detail in that talk show. There even the people work in IT, ITES, BPO, KPO sectors emphasized the importance of our mother tongue. Yes we need to have fluency in English, only for our professional life which is our bread and butter. That doesn’t mean that we need to speak English everywhere. We need to have clear demarcation and draw a line between our Professional and Personal life. When you are in office or office related parties, communicating in English is must and inevitable. But when you are at home it is better to speak in your own mother tongue. In that way you can feel the closeness. You can experience that as well.
There was an argument put up my friend saying, in order to get fluency in English we need to practice at home. Not necessarily. I have classic examples in my own family. One of sisters works in THE HINDU as Associate Editor, She is Sanskrit Scholar too, but the moment she comes out the office she converse in Tamizh only. There are so many such examples I can give.
Another big mistake what we do is teaching relationships in English to kids. Please don’t do this mistake. We need to teach relationship in our own language. If we encourage them to call mummy, daddy, uncle and aunty, there is always a danger that will never come to know relationships in our own language.
In the nutshell what am trying to emphasize here is the importance of our mother tongue. Let’s be proud of our mother tongue.
As usual I welcome your thoughts as well… Have great evening
One can clearly convey things only in his/her mother tongue and not in any other language. Some may dispute this point but the fact is that mother tongue is the only language which conveys your emotions, feel to the other person very clearly without any ambiguity.
Unlike olden days we are not giving importance to one’s mother tongue. Many of us having mind set that if we know English and if we speak English well, then we can achieve anything in our life. This is very wrong statement. Last week there was a talk show at Vijay TV. The name of the talk show is “Neeya Naana?”. The same subject was analyzed in detail in that talk show. There even the people work in IT, ITES, BPO, KPO sectors emphasized the importance of our mother tongue. Yes we need to have fluency in English, only for our professional life which is our bread and butter. That doesn’t mean that we need to speak English everywhere. We need to have clear demarcation and draw a line between our Professional and Personal life. When you are in office or office related parties, communicating in English is must and inevitable. But when you are at home it is better to speak in your own mother tongue. In that way you can feel the closeness. You can experience that as well.
There was an argument put up my friend saying, in order to get fluency in English we need to practice at home. Not necessarily. I have classic examples in my own family. One of sisters works in THE HINDU as Associate Editor, She is Sanskrit Scholar too, but the moment she comes out the office she converse in Tamizh only. There are so many such examples I can give.
Another big mistake what we do is teaching relationships in English to kids. Please don’t do this mistake. We need to teach relationship in our own language. If we encourage them to call mummy, daddy, uncle and aunty, there is always a danger that will never come to know relationships in our own language.
In the nutshell what am trying to emphasize here is the importance of our mother tongue. Let’s be proud of our mother tongue.
As usual I welcome your thoughts as well… Have great evening
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