http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/681 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:51:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/681/comment-page-1#comment-2478 Samadhi Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:41:56 +0000 http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/681#comment-2478 I don't think we need to be a politican or need government incentive to learn another language. I would love it if both languages: sinhala and tamil are thought in schools. Since I didn't have this opportunity, now I am trying to learn Tamil by myself. I don't see why others can't do the same. Why are we blaming others when learning a language is all up to us. In my eyes Tamil people who had to learn Sinhalese are the lucky ones. They are better educated because they learned another language. In a peaceful Sri Lanka I would go live in a predominantly Tamil area like Jaffna and give my self the opportunity to learn more. I am living in a country where Sinhala in not the official language. I see the advantage I have over others who had to learn only one (the official) language. So, although I fully support teaching both these languages in schools, let's use the time that we spend finger pointing and blaming others to learn another language and be better educated. Learning is a personal thing, within the reach of each one of us if we really want to, and not a political or economic issue. I wish I was one of you who knows all three (Sinhala, Tamil, English). Don't lement for being so fortunate. All of us ordinary people have so much power to change things. Let's do that. I don’t think we need to be a politican or need government incentive to learn another language. I would love it if both languages: sinhala and tamil are thought in schools. Since I didn’t have this opportunity, now I am trying to learn Tamil by myself. I don’t see why others can’t do the same. Why are we blaming others when learning a language is all up to us. In my eyes Tamil people who had to learn Sinhalese are the lucky ones. They are better educated because they learned another language. In a peaceful Sri Lanka I would go live in a predominantly Tamil area like Jaffna and give my self the opportunity to learn more. I am living in a country where Sinhala in not the official language. I see the advantage I have over others who had to learn only one (the official) language. So, although I fully support teaching both these languages in schools, let’s use the time that we spend finger pointing and blaming others to learn another language and be better educated. Learning is a personal thing, within the reach of each one of us if we really want to, and not a political or economic issue. I wish I was one of you who knows all three (Sinhala, Tamil, English). Don’t lement for being so fortunate. All of us ordinary people have so much power to change things. Let’s do that.

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