kakee
March 11, 2012, 3:06am
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Re: Teaching Urdu
This topic has been done so so many times… I personally think it is very very very important to teach our kids Urdu. I live in a multicultural neighborhood.. umm NYC of course .. I see all kind of people from all kind of backgrounds on daily basis, I don’t think anyone disagrees that its very important to teach their kids their native language. I don’t undersand why some desis think its not important to teach our kids our language. I can’t tell you how wrong it is to assume that your kid won’t learn English. I’ve read articles after articles, reasearch after research on how well kids who know more than one language do in their studies and overall.
My own nephew is fluent in Urdu but my SIL (my husband’s sister) didn’t emphasize much of this language thing on her kids, well now my in laws are least interested in talking to those kids because there is such a huge language barrier. Those kids don’t understand anything in Urdu. Pretty sad to be honest.
Its not about humari qoum doob jaey gi ya nahi.. its about taking pride in your culture or language and passing it on to your kids. I am sure everyone is going to survive and live happily just by knowing English too but like jaan leva said it is something that your kids can easily learn and have a uniqueness they can call their own and take pride in, why not give it to them.
exactly. its pretty sad for those parents who don’t care about their culture,language and such and yet call themselves that nationality.. when really they don’t even know anything about it.
I don’t agree with grandparents favoring one over another just because of a language barrier.. thats just pathetic tbh =/