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| vikramkr Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5878 days ago 248 posts - 326 votes  Speaks: English*, Portuguese | Message 1 of 3 13 July 2009 at 9:29pm | IP Logged |
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From Mahatma Gandhi's book Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth:
It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular. This big list need not frighten anyone. If our education were more systematic, and the boys free from the burden of having to learn their subjects through a foreign medium, I am sure learning all these languages would not be an irksome task, but a perfect pleasure. A scientific knowledge of one language makes a knowledge of other languages comparatively easy. In reality, Hindi, Gujarati and Sanskrit may be regarded as one language, and Persian and Arabic also as one. Though Persian belongs to the Aryan, and Arabic to the Semitic family of languages, there is a close relationship between Persian and Arabic, because both claim their full growth through the rise of Islam. Urdu I have not regarded as a distinct language, because it has adopted the Hindi grammar and its vocabulary is mainly Persian and Arabic, and he who would learn good Urdu must learn Persian and Arabic, as one who would learn good Gujarati, Hindi, Bengali, or Marathi must learn Sanskrit. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DrSarahEaton Diglot Newbie Canada eatonintl.com Joined 5016 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 2 of 3 01 July 2011 at 10:26pm | IP Logged |
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I have written two articles on this very topic which may be of interest to readers:
Leading though Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of Gandhi Available on ERIC: Leading Through Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of Gandhi Gandhi and Language Promotion (Originally published in Zephyr, the newsletter of the Second Languages and Intercultural Council (SLIC) of the Alberta Teachers' Association in 2009). The article may be viewed here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/59145180/Gandhi-and-Language-Promo tion-Zephyr-2009 Edited by DrSarahEaton on 01 July 2011 at 10:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5617 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 3 of 3 02 July 2011 at 6:18am | IP Logged |
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Interesting that he didn't mention Tamil.
As beloved as Gandhi was, I don't think many Dravidians hearing what was stated above would have liked it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Hindi_agitations_of_Tamil_ Nadu 1 person has voted this message useful |
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