Language - a medium of thoughts

Hi, My native language is Lithuanian. Lithuanian language has similarities with Sanskrit. Lithuanian language is the least altered from the Proto-Indo-Europeans. I can speak in German, English and Russian, Polish, Czech other Slavic languages. All flowers beautiful - but they are all different - just like we are. Native language, Traditions (tale, legend, etc.), allows you and to give understand, who you are. You probably noticed how much I love and respect my language, but ... If so happened that you went to live in another country - the language should know better than your own, so that you, your children can integrate into society. Without the local language you "nothing" being outside your country. Now you need to know two traditions, languages... etc.

I would think that children who speak another language other that English and live in America should learn English as should their parents. I am appalled at people who come here from other countries and don't even try to learn the language. I speak English and no a little of several other languages. Not much.

I do teach my kids English, they speak it at home and in school.. but they also know our dialects as well. They easily learn it because they can hear it at home too.

I remember during my Grade School Days, English language was strictly implemented. And anyone caught not speaking in English will be fined. We are to pay 25 cents per non-English word. I just don't recall where the money goes after.

i agree with you and also let me add, language is the most common use for communication. here in the philippines, the new curriculum in education implemented mother tongue from grade one to grade three. i must inform you that in the philippines we have lots of dialects. so a particular place in here have a spoken dialect of their own. so it means to say, relatively, the dialect being used in a certain place must be used in their medium of instructions. but as they reach higher level of grades, speaking english is already required. so thanks for this wonderful information of yours :)

i am an indian n my mother tongue is hindi, i know engl.ish and french. its good to learn various languages other than mother tongue also. english is official language of india so it is very important to know english if u are indian and nothing wrong about it. more language you know, more good it is :-)

That is correct my friend that mother tongue should be the basis of instructions in schools.Here in the Philippines only English and Pilipino are taught in schools Unlike in my native Cebu,where I have started schooling,that I have heard our own dialect Cebuano was taught in government run public schools,yet the school where I was enrolled teaches only Pilipino and English.Pilipino is our national language based in Tagalog.I also know a little Chinese and Spanish.

I wish I could be fluent in another language apart from English, but unfortunately languages are not my strong point, I took French in school but never became fluent enough, and I passed, barely. I would love to be bi-lingual. I had a friend at school who found languages so easy that he could actually learn them with a few months, and he became fluent in them too, no wonder he became a professor. I do admire people with the talent of having more than one language.

Spanish is my mother language and I take English as my second language I can also read and understand Portuguese and Italian...my mum came from Portuguese family and my father from Italians but we grew up in South America so our primary language is Spanish!

I speak Hindi whole day, but I read the Engineering books in English, and I use Hindi and English both when I talking about the Engineering subjects to the others. I think both of the languages are important to me. I can talk to the peoples around me, in Hindi because maximum people speak Hindi in Himachal Pradesh, but English is important when it comes to the engineering and technology.

Chinese is my mother language, and I can speak a littke English. I am eager to speak fluent English, but it is so hard for me. Do you have any good method to improve oral English?

I speak 3 languages. If you look at from where i was born and the first language i learned perspective then my mother tongue is one. MY second language is two. And my third language is English. But if i look at it from the perspective of how i speak the languages then i don't have a mother tongue, i speak all 3 of the languages more or less equally well. With perfect accents and i can read the alphabets and write in all 3 of those differend alphabets. The only problem with not having a mother tongue is that although i speak 3 languages Very Good. I speak no language Perfectly. That is my only regret, sort to say.

I can speak in English, hindi and oriya. Oriya is my mother tongue. Yes, I have yet to rectify some grammar mistakes in English, which i hope would not be long. English is necessary, but we should not forget about our mother tongue. And yes, they should present their thoughts in mother tongue at least in home. If everyone in india will just try to speak in English, than what would happen to other languages ? Many of the professors, popular teachers, they never studied in any English Medium school. But yet they can talk very clearly in English without any problem. So, English talking is not really necessary at an early age. they can learn with time. Its just a type of fashion using English , just a show-off and nothing else.

hi well, in my country, English is an international language, so we have to mastered it. i'm from Indonesia, my national language is Indonesia and my bugis language is mother tongue. i have pass many times to study English, but until now, i'm only know the little vocab of English. i also know how to speak Japanese. although is only how to introduce our selves, hehehe.

I know English and Hindi,i can understand Konkani and Marathi.Also i know some of the abusive words of Japanese and Phlilipino language,my friends from there taught me those words in our fun time.Parents try to teach their children English because child learns fast when he/she is 4-5 years old and strong English ensures that you will have advantage over others when you face competitive exams.So the preparation starts at young age,however this should not be done forcefully but by a suitable method.Best wishes.

My first language is Konkani,and I speak Urdu,Hindi,and Marathi fluently.I know a little Persian,and Arabic.French is closer to English so I can understand but not able speak it.I think learning a new language becomes much easier especially when it shares a lot of words with the language you know of.

I highly appreciate your views.You are absolutely right.I am an Indian too,and my mother tongue is Hindi.My state language is Oriya.I want to learn as many languages of my country as I can.I agree with you that we educated Indians prefer to talk to each other In English and it's a shame on our great country which have so many rich languages.I never talk to my friends or kids in English.I even inspire them not to use English words if there is a word with the same meaning in our mother tongue.Unfortunately ours is the only country in the world that does not speak in its own language.I appreciate you for this discussion.English is imposed on us.

When I was still studying, we are force to speak English language in our class for us to be more competent in speaking English and for us to understand and communicate well to those who are in Western countries where English is their mother tongue. I can still speak and understand well my mother tongue even though I hardly am trying to speaks and understand well English language.

I do agree that English is an international language. Besides our national language and mother tongue, it is also important for our children to be able to speak and write English fluently. Nowadays, people are travelling everywhere and it is good and great advantage to learn any other languages . My national language is Bahasa Malayisa, and my mother tongue is Mandarin. However, I can speak English .