Mother Tongue

Many of us do not know the significance and worth of the mother tongue.  I am not talking here about Thamizh but that language may be Hindi or Urdu or Bengali or Chinese or Japanese.  If you want to learn any other language, the preferred method is via our mother tongue.  Only then you can give a perfect feel when you start talking that new language.  Saying “I don’t know Thamizh properly and I’ll do spelling mistakes while writing Thamizh” has become a fashion nowadays.  And parents are satisfied if their kids are proficient only in English.   Those people must understand one thing. That is English is not a sign of knowledge and it’s only a language.
We miss all the treasures in our own language like epical and ethical stories, histories, medicinal inventions, verses and traditional music etc.  Only because we neglect our mother tongue there is no doubt we will become the secondary citizens of our own country in coming years.  Do we need that to happen? I never say that we should not be well versed in other languages.  At the same time let’s not forget our mother tongue. Can we think in English? Can we feel in English? Can we imagine in English? Can we lament in English? No No No…..  Let’s learn to respect our language and also learn so many languages through the treasury and classical mother tongue. Let’s try to be acquainted with all our literary history and the precious value of our own custom.