How important is your mother tongue for you & future generations?

[arabiannights]

Re: How important is your mother tongue for you & future generations?

@Paheli00

^ This.

Our views are very similar. The only reason I’m fluent in my mother tongue & am familiar w/ culture is b/c I was born/raised there until I was a pre-teen. Even after coming to the U.S., just out of habit…‘til this day I speak to my parents in my native tongue. But my parents, and extended family back home all speak English. Out of grandparents I only have my dada left and due to his age/health…I doubt he’ll be alive by the time my kids are old enough to even say basic words! My husband was born/raised in a very gora town in the U.S. He’s basically a white guy inside a desi guys’ body lol. I don’t see myself having any sort of “advantage” just b/c I know more about desi culture than he does. So yea…I’m sure my kids will pick up my mother tongue b/c they’ll hear me speak it. But getting them to speak it fluently really isn’t that high on my list of priorities.

if urdu had more use to your children do you think you would be more likely to teach it? Also aren’t you scared your children will be missing out/ segregated from their pakistani community cause they dont know urdu? Also will you be teaching your children other languages other than urdu like arabic, french,spanish? and if so why dont you find the need to teach them urdu? Sorry if im being nosey im just curious lol