Re: Why Punjabi is not taught in Pakistani schools?
^ I don't think that's entirely true. I mean, the people who are literally ashamed to speak Punjabi, they don't do it because they are interested in preserving nationalism or something. They have just been raised to believe that somehow Punjabi is inferior (because it's spoken in villages? And God forbid, the villagers are 'paindu').
And also, I have noticed that 'cultural shame' is more prevalent among women than men. I see guys talking in Punjabi casually, everywhere, even with their friends. But women would die of 'mortification' if they have to speak in Punjabi in a public place.
And the most pathetic situation, that I have sometimes observed is, when people speak Punjabi to everyone else but insist on speaking Urdu withe their spouse/kids. As if it's not good enough to be spoken to their spouses and or kids.
Re: Why Punjabi is not taught in Pakistani schools?
can you identify which areas?
I know personally about shcools of two districts sheikhupura and nankana sahib, I think same applies to other districts of punjab, but keep in mind i am talking about village and remote areas.
Re: Why Punjabi is not taught in Pakistani schools?
I know personally about shcools of two districts sheikhupura and nankana sahib, I think same applies to other districts of punjab, but keep in mind i am talking about village and remote areas.
I wanted to know whether they publish books for geography, Islamiyat, etc in Punjabi or books are in Urdu, but teacher translated the lessons in Punjabi for ease of students.
Re: Why Punjabi is not taught in Pakistani schools?
I wanted to know whether they publish books for geography, Islamiyat, etc in Punjabi or books are in Urdu, but teacher translated the lessons in Punjabi for ease of students.
yes, books publish in urdu.
but teachers teach lesson in Punjabi not for the ease of students but for the ease of their own way of teaching :p
Re: Why Punjabi is not taught in Pakistani schools?
I'm of the opinion that basic (Primary) language should be in mother tongue.
As far as difficulty in adopting English is concerned, my personal experience says its not the case, I started studying English form Class Six (from A, B, C), upto class 5, I didn't know even the Alphabets of English. We kept on studying everything in Sindhi including Maths, Physics, Bio, Chemistry, etc till 10th Class. But I didn't get it difficult, when we have to study these subjects in English at college level, because 5 years of Enshlis as a subject and English terminologies in science subjects (that were were studying in Sindhi) had made our base.
But ultimately you had to shift to English so whats the point of doing it in another language first?
And it may not have been difficult for you but I knw a lot of kids who had difficulties transferring to English medium schools.
Re: Why Punjabi is not taught in Pakistani schools?
Contrary to Pakistan, In India, It is only punjabi that has gained strength and wider acceptance mostly due to bollywood and in cties like chandigarh and delhi, punjabi speakers generally talk in punjabi and no one is considered paindu or anything because he/she speaks punjabi:)
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I think speaking Punjabi is cool in India
Today, I raised this question of not teaching Punjabi from my dearest Punjabi friend and you know what he replied… hum na to kisi ihsas e kamtri ka shikar hain na hi tum logon ki tarah tasub parast ( We are neither suffering from inferiority complex nor we are biased like you people) and I was like
Re: Why Punjabi is not taught in Pakistani schools?
But ultimately you had to shift to English so whats the point of doing it in another language first?
And it may not have been difficult for you but I knw a lot of kids who had difficulties transferring to English medium schools.
I think we should transfer knowledge of science and other subjects in our languages. Why should we be relying on English, we they got this information translated from languages like Arabic to English.
We don't own English, it has become our necessity. If we worked for developing our languages, we could have all the information in our own language like Chinese have.
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Thats what people supporting idea of not teaching Punjabi present as a first instance.
who are those people by the way?
all i know, people just don't care. there isn't enough support to institutionalize it..hence no movement towards teaching it.... its not like there is a thought out opposition in views.
YES STA, it is declining, especially in urban middle and upper classes, at a very fast pace.
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is punjabi language diminishing in punjab?
What do you mean by diminishing? You mean as a medium of routine communication or language of literature? I can't remember names of Punjabi novels except for two.
One is 'TanwaN tanwaN taare' by Mansha Yaad and thats because it was adopted for an Urdu serial 'Rahen'. Second one is Pakheroo by Mustansar hussain TaraR.
