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Language learning- 'the elephant in the room'

Wonders of Language..

An understanding on the acquisition of language was really a eye opener for me. Nothing in language is insignificant. This became a great motivation for thinking. It was of great wonder to know that that the sound structure of majority of human languages is following a certain pattern where the alteration of consonantal sounds and vocalic sounds is inherent in words. That is, every word will have a combination of consonant and vowel sound (CVCV pattern). For example, Baby is clearly in the patter of CVCV. I tried it in Malayalam and the pattern was clearly seen. this may be because the inherent want of human to make his/her language ease to his/her vocal chords. When I used to observe small children I used to get surprised how they speak with not at all been taught. The conversation with these children are really interesting. It was understood that a child can be made exposed to more than one language at a time as the inherent teacher in him/her would help him/her in acquiring the language. It was also understood that this has no any connections with the IQ of a child.

Some thoughts..

In my school Hindi was taught, but no one in the class did Know to speak. this may be largely because we do not get the environment where we can use our Hindi. One another reason may be that the languages are counted to be subjects and it is taught just like that of either subjects. The valuation of language is also on the basis of how a child writes where script has nothing to do with the knowledge of the language. I believe that language valuation should be rather different where the speaking skill is largely been evaluated.

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