Learning languages


There is a learning tip I want to give out – don’t teach rules of the language.

Yes you heard it right

I can only say from my experience that when my son started speaking, reading and writing in English we had not touched grammar. Yet he knew the rules of grammar long before we got down to know what grammar was all about. And yet he wrote perfectly correct English sentences with proper usage of adjectives, adverbs and other rules.

Same goes for Hindi and yes we have just embarked on our journey of Sanskrit and I am sure it is the same for Sanskrit.

Practice matters a lot in language. Why do you think we can speak in our mother tongue so fluently?

Sanskrit is a wonder language. It hits differently. It sounds different. I feel there is much gravity in it may be because our vedas are written in it and so is our Geeta.

It is a poetical language and the way it is written makes it easier to memorise the teachings. If I learn a Sanskrit shloka I can never forget it it comes rushing like a waterfall. One word follows another without a single glitch in memory.