Survival Of The Language

Tamil....

Is tamil considered a dying language these days..Definitely the answer is yes..but why is this thing happening?? Its all because the lack of recognition of this eminent language..The root of this problem is the people itself.

Tamil is so beautiful that even a newborn baby can say the First uyir eluthu of tamil which is அ when it cries....but a tamil child who is 3 years old doesn't know how to speak tamil..whose fault is this again?

I would place the total blame on their parents...some parents teach so much of english to their kids and yet refuse to teach even a bit of tamil to their kids....Are you ashamed of our own language? I THINK YOU DO...there are a lot of statements being provided by the parents as the reason why they never teach their kids tamil.

a) I feel shy when my child talks in tamil... 

- OMG!!!! actually come to think of it...its not something which is surprising especially at this part of the century....we used to tell a person who forget his language is equivalent to forget person who forget is mother....but in today's world...forgetting their blood parents is PIECE OF CAKE for them nowdays I guess...

b) If he/she talks in tamil, he will became a bad person.....

- Tamil is not evil neither to everyone who speaks tamil is evil...just because one guy samun you speaks tamil, it does not mean everyone speaks tamil will samun... Chinese and Malays also commit crime but nobody categorize all the Chinese and Malay as criminals....then why the Indians share a different fate?

c) Nolah aiyaa , tamil wont bring you far...learn chinese better....

- yes..I do understand that the economy of this country is being dominated by the chinese but that does not exonerate tamilans from not learning tamil...giving up on our own people and language is not the easy way out..

The easiest way of promoting tamil is through education which is Tamil School...only from Tamil school's we can actually educate kids the need of our mother tongue in our community...now rise another problem...how many of our kids actually goes to Tamil School?

The quality of education in Tamil School is always is open to question....yes, this is true indeed....but actually what we have did to make the situation better?? There are tons of tamil schools which is in a situation that it could not be considered as a school at the first place..that usual thing..but the unfamiliar thing about it is that there is a mostly a nearby temple to the school which is very much highly developed. People living in that area are willing to donate so much to the temples( more than one ) and nothing to the schools? Why is that? Did our religion teaches us that we will only gain redemption and vekumati only by donating money to temples but not by helping poor kids to succeed in their life??

                                                       

This is the situation of the of tamil schools in our country.....there are people who actually lending a hand...whatever it is, what different can a group of individuals do the most?? It should actually not be a group or two but everyone should lend their hand to help the kids in this type of schools and also to upgrade the standard of this type of schools. 

For example, lets just take a situation...if there is a lot indians in one particular area, most should be able to send their kids to that particular tamil schools...and the parents of the children who is studying in that school can contribute to the school little by little to improve the condition of the school... Once the standard the school has improved, even people who are not from that particular area will send their children to that school. For the high-fliers in that area, they can actually adopt the schools and if it is not possible for one of them to adopt the school separately then they can adopt the school in a group. Everyone will be happy if the status of the school hikes up.

If this happens, then we would actually start to bring our education level into another level which is our own independent tamil secondary school. Once this level is achieved , then we will have advertisement in the newspaper like this

When this happens, WE HAVE MADE IT!!! GOD BLESS it will happen ASAP.....

There is alots of this stuffs which is available to the public nowdays but pandai-pandai buat lah....dont untill your kids thinks that you dont trust them( truth hurts!!!)..

Lastly i just wanna say to everyone that this above post is personally my own opinion and if it was never meant to offend anyone. If it did, then SORRY is the word which i will use...

Reminder: Start helping our people because if we dont, none will !!!

PD