March 2019

 Will it not be a biggest mistake and wrong start if I introduce the bhartiy alphabets with wrong mapping? How to introduce first letter? Even before starting to teach kids I was under the impression that A for ‘A’pple is same as for ‘A’mol. How many examples I could present to the kids in English which […]

Mouth is our instrument to create the desired sound. When we open our mouth gently the first sound comes out is the first letter of Bharatiy Scripts. The ‘U’ as pronounced in ‘U’p. There is hardly any word in the English to give as an example for you. suggest one? remember the A for ‘A’pple not

Lets see some other languages before we introduce Bhartiy letters. Latin, Spanish, English have the same patterns/symbols to write but the pronunciations are different based on the country. It is very difficult to look at the letter as a design. We are so used to connect it to its sound/pronunciation. I try it many times.

Imagine your classroom having children with different mother-tounges (Matrubhasha) as Telgu, Hindi, Malyalam, Tamil, Assamese, Marathi, Khatri, Bengali. I had them all in one. How to teach them? With what approach? Shall I teach them  a common language Hindi as one? Let me introduce all together. Why we got so many scripts in India? They all

So how many ingredients we are going to use in the class room? ‘…now we know our ABC’. They really know the ABC well. I was not knowing it properly perhaps. ‘ ‘A for Apple’. How can I relate this to Devanagari? My A which we use as our first vowel was actually 20 letters

We were taught proper grammar of our bhasha in the school. That all was going to help me to create taste of Indian languages. The customers were young and I wanted them to enter the store, not just window shopping. I knew,  I am not the language subject expert. But I had no other means

Matrubhasha as a foreign language? Never looked at my mothertongue, matrubhasha, from this perspective until recently, when I choose to teach Hindi in my town in England to the Indian children. The two years’ journey taught me a lot, at-least to revisit my language in real sense. Dialect, one of the traditional asset of my family, friends