Natural Love of Languages

Some people love to learn language. They go to institute and enroll in a language course where both written and spoken form of that particular language is taught. A British Indian student amazed his teachers by learning to speak 10 different languages. Arpan Sharma is a 10-year-old boy who lives in Oldbury, West Mids. He has a lot of lot of interest in languages. He taught himself the following languages:

1. French.
2. Spanish.
3. German.
4. Italian.
5. Swahili.
6. Mandarin.
7. Polish.
8. Thai.
9. The difficult language Lugandan of Uganda.
10. Hindi.

The boy has learnt Hindi also from his parents. It has been reported by Daily Mirror of London. Richard Lynn, headmaster of Blue Coat School stated that Arpan is a language genius. He listens to the exact pronunciation of a word from a language and can repeat it perfectly. He learnt this language using CD ROMs.

In fact in my life, I started learning Hindi first when I was in St. Thomas Church School at Howrah Maidan. There were a large number of Hindi-speaking boys and girls. First the language was strange to me when I was admitted in class 2. I then listened to my friends speaking. I heard them speak the Hindi and just tried to guess the meaning. First my friends used to laugh when they saw me looking at them surprised. Then they learnt that my problem. I gradually picked up the language as time progressed. First one or two words, then phrases and then sentences. Then a time came when I started learning the language as my third language from 7 and 8 classes. I studied the languages and attended classes in my school. I loved Hindi. I was proud that I was learning a language which is primarily a language of my own land. I felt proud of this language. I studied so well in one term of my three term exams in class, that I scored 72 out of 100 in Hindi. It was a scoring language with simple questions in exam. Our teacher wore a spectacle and he is lean and thin and tall. But he used to teach us well!

After my graduation in Anthropology in Bangabasi College in Kolkata, I studied French language. I got interested to study French from my father who also learnt French in his student life. I enrolled in Alliance Francaise, which is quite a reputed institute in Kolkata. It has branches in 4 metropolitan cities in India. Students who get trained and get the highest degree in Alliance Francaise, Diplome Superior go to France after an All India Competition and get a teacher's training to teach the language in Alliance Francaise itself. I enrolled the course of first eight months. It is called "Neveu Un." I studied the language. They taught us to write and speak the language. French is a language where the whole world is divided into masculine (in French "masculin") and feminine (in French "feminine"). They use the same alphabets of English but their pronunciations are different. Overall it is quite interesting to learn this language. The spelling of the adjective gets different, in fact the adjective becomes plural when the noun becomes plural. There are also regular and irregular verbs whose conjugations you have learn by heart! The regular verbs have a pattern but there are irregular verbs whose conjugations if not known you cannot write or speak! So this language is a precision language where a small fault might land in trouble while speaking or writing. Besides there are different accent signs, three signs are used here; "accent aigu", "accent grave" and "accent circonflexe." In all the language is interesting to study.

Learning language can be a wonderful hobby just like music and coin collection. It is rather more absorbing and brain storming as you go on learning a difficult language, you brain works more and you get more pleasure in learning something and memorizing sounds and words not used in your society. Some people may discourage you and this discouragement comes primarily from parents who tell you not to go for fruitless pursuits. Career oriented courses are always recommended by parents. It is good but if you have an established career, you can chase your dreams and do something YOU LIKE!