they banned the usage of any other language other than english, theory is that mother tongues get ample time at home.
but none of the vernacular lingos spoken in school are my own mother tongue, which means i am just going to lose my skills in those.
will this lead to the cobra effect? of course. many people have already turned their enemies in for not speaking english while they were defenitely doing so. this is so bad. the trust students had in each other is already broken, cuz anybody could be a traitor.
will this lead to ppl not being able to speak their oen lingo properly? of course. some people in my class were already struggling with spoken hindi, and i bet their learning curve will go deeper than hell now.
i get it, speaking other lingos in english class might be very annoying for them sophisticated english teachers, but was it necesassy to murder other languages as well?
in a country where multilinguistic abilities keep your head wide open for other forms of literature, songs and even allowing you to buy that thing from that lingo guy, bad move.
and idk, talking in hindi, assamese or bengali is kinda more interesting for me.
i hate school even more.
If there is nothing you can do abaut it,its best just to ignore some negative things in life,speak only english in school as they want
Probably they think English Speaking is endangered. They need to protect it.
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@bfchessguy i assure you english will not ever go extinct
i am worried for assamese lol
@ang001 said in #4:
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@bfchessguy i assure you english will not ever go extinct
> i am worried for assamese lol
I think reading the last line of my post is mandatory.
It will always amaze me when an organization feels compelled to protect English.
I must add, that when listening to some leaders of countries the English needs protection. ;-P
now your main goal should be to hope that some teacher will accidentally say something in hindi... then you know what to do with this poor guy
If it's an English class, if that is the subject, then it makes a certain amount of sense for the teacher to limit the amount of your first language that you speak in class. Everything you say in L1 is something you aren't saying in your target language, and the teacher didn't come there to teach you something you already know better than he/she knows. Moreover, it distracts other students from actually learning what is being taught. <full disclosure: I teach English as a foreign language, and I'm serious about limiting the students' use of their first language in my classes> To repeat, that's IF it is an English class. Otherwise, I don't see it as such a great issue. Any individual teacher will have more or fewer trouble with this issue than another, and I trust most teachers to work it out for themselves.
What gets me is "they banned". It's one thing for a teacher to set their own rules for their own classroom (most teachers get it more or less right most of the time), but it is a serious misstep when something as small as this becomes a school policy. School policies are in place (should be in place) for the big things: academic honesty, classroom behaviour, bullying, etc. Which language you use when chatting with your friend shouldn't be something that the administration gets involved in.
Probably cuz English is gonna be the most useful in future. Plus it doesn't make much sense to talk in other languages if your school is English medium. For us though, we can talk in regional languages only in that particular period.
@ang001 said in #4:
> i am worried for assamese lol
I am waiting for it to die, trash language
I try not to wear a bathing suit to a banquet. I do not take a tiger to a dog park. I do not drink milk at a ball game.
That does not mean that bathing suits, tigers or milk are bad things or that I mean to disrespect them. It does not mean that I would never wear a bathing suit, admire a tiger, or enjoy a glass of milk at home or among friends. It just means that circumstances can sometimes affect our choices.
Although colleges certainly can and routinely do go well beyond this, primary and secondary schools -- the sort that begin to prepare the younger mind for life -- mostly attempt to ready us for living in the society in which the school appears. And learning to be fluent in the primary language of that society is very useful, indeed. It could even be crucial for later success. Yet fluency often does not come easily, without a great deal of practice.
If I wished to become very proficient at basketball, I would spend more time on the court, not insist on spending more time in the locker room merely because it felt more comfortable there.
Despite that, if it were up to me, I would not "ban" other languages in any mandatory, government-funded school, since that seems a bit inflexible and since I highly value freedom.
Yet, I can certainly see the value of increasing practice in a very important and helpful skill. We don't perfect our skills at something by practicing it as infrequently as we can manage to do.
