Re: Disturbing trend: 'Mujhey urdu parhni nahi aati !'
excellent topic.
anyone who loses their mother language or appears to be someone that it is beneath them to be learning and speaking their native tongue, is at a complete loss of wisdom.
Urdu is our language. balochi, sindhi, pathan and punjabi, all speak it,
as well as other folks in Pakistan.
there should be a mandatory requirement for all high schools in Pakistan and in private Muslim Pakistani schools abroad to teach grammatically correct Urdu language and also Urdu Literature.
there is no excuse for not learning it.
and that is how, all of us, as older siblings must enable our younger siblings, cousins or nehpews or friends' siblings, to be, in their attitude towards embracing their mother tongue and national language back home, without feeling that it will make them less of a british born or american born second generation Pakistanis.
best,
Dushwari