Sorry, I am born to a Pakistani but cannot read Urdu

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Re: Sorry, I am born to a Pakistani but cannot read Urdu

@Chicken_Biryani

Where did this comparison between teaching Asian kids their mother tongue v/s religion begin? It makes no sense, these are two very different dimensions and both can and should be achieved , whats so difficult about it?

If one can strive to go learn Spanish or french, then why not urdu? Knowing this language can only strengthen one’s confidence on their origin and not cut them off from their roots. Why so much animosity against a language?

I don’t think their is any animosity, at least for me personally. My kids speak and understand enough Urdu to communicate effectively with an elder that doesn’t know English and that is enough for me and our family to be satisfied with. I purposefully enrolled them in a school where they would learn to read, understand and speak classic Arabic, as I found that more useful for them as being Muslim. I don’t see them having the need to read or wrote Urdu, and as I cannot either, who would teach them?

I think I mentioned somewhere in this thread that my father, as a born, raised and educated Indian from Andhra Pradesh was fluent in Telegu, along with Urdu & Hindi…those were his mother tongues…I don’t know a lick of Telegu or how to read and write Hindi…my father recognized that I would have no use for either language, so it was never introduced to me or my siblings…is that wrong or shameful or denying my Indian roots/heritage?

@ButtSb

Don’t want to teach kids urdu? Great… perfectly alright…but please don’t give lame arguments…

Sincerely,

Buttsb

What constitutes a lame argument? It’s pretty rude and presumptuous of you to write off someone’s opinions as lame and inconsequential because they differ from your own.