Raghavan, Ranjani
(2009)
Learning Gujarati from friends; not learning Marathi at school.
Learning Curve (13).
p. 63.
Abstract
I am a Tamilian brought up in Mumbai. I syllabus is unbelievable. There are around 25 lessons
could speak Hindi, English and Tamil by the and poems (really!) and more than 100 answers to
age of three. I also started speaking “mug up” for a 100-mark paper. Add to this, the fact
Gujarati because I had Gujarati friends and that the lessons and the stories are uninteresting.
I learnt a completely new language in the most natural However, a student can, even without 'learning,' still
way! But I still can't hold a conversation for more than get just around 65 marks by rote learning the answers.
five minutes in Marathi- a language I learnt for six years There is no 'language learning' as such. There is merely
at school.
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