Are you saying something?

Huh?

Are you saying something ?


In this post i flex my muscles to proclaim that yes i study science, and the only language i am concerned with is the language in which God wrote this universe -Mathematics.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmm not quite.

As i could hear the faint sounds of my muscles deflating, i realized,you need to learn the local language too ( as in associated with the geographical location). One year in chennai and i still learnt onyl 2-3 tamil words. Not that i am quite proud of this, but i am not ashamed either. My experience as an actor made me quite competant in chennai using the sign language and theatrics to communicate.
As I came over to Holland i thought I could uphold the practice i had been so diligently pursuing in Chennai. Well considering I have to live here for sometime and most of the time I have to wait for a kind soul to patiently translate the things to me, I thought it might be a better idea to learn the language , to atleast read signs/ symbols if not speak it in the market on saturdays.

SO is this the reason I am learning dutch ?

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

The real reason is that I am an Indian and I am a Grad Student.................
And my univ gives a FREE dutch course for all foreign grad students.

Why waste when you get something for free ? ? ? So last tuesday I hopped on to my bike and rode to the university at 8 o clock at night to attend my first dutch lessons. And then I remembered how tough it is to learn a language. For starters the instructor always tried to speak in Dutch. Only if hand gestures were not working then she would resort to english. This was a new game for me, trying to understand what she was saying. Once you do get a gist of the meaning then she would repeat it again so that we could have an idea of what individual words do mean.The same sentence repeated some times so that we do get an idea of the words. Now a new sentence is said. Instinctively we try to compare the words with the previous sentence and see if anything is common. Then try to construct a meaning with the common words. Learning a language sometimes seems similar to solving a cryptic puzzle. All you have is some leading clues. Rest you use your intuition and experience to figure it out. The real fun is with the numbers. If you have to say 384 then invairably you get stuck trying to remember the translate for eighty.

Learning a language is good, it atleast stops you from saying "Huh?"

And I wonder how i could learn so many languages when i was young.



N.B. :Dedicated to the people in EFLU Hyderabad.