Language is just a medium of communication, unless it's your mother tongue
Disclaimer: Nope. Can’t think of anything. If you are offended by this blog, read the title again and repeat the following step with a smile. Sing in Tamil, tour in France, try German (I mean the language), watch Desi movies and read Shakespeare. This is the story of how I learnt other languages apart from my mother tongue Tamil. As you know, there are two la, ra and na in Tamil. When I was five, during the language test, the teacher asked me to spell some words. She asked, “Which ‘ra’ do you use in in ‘maram’? The small one or the big one?” (Maram: tree) I was delighted. No one asked a five year old to choose. I promptly answered, “I choose the big one.” She frowned and said, “You don’t get to choose.” I should have figured. She asked her next question, “Which one in ‘naai’?” (Naai: Dog) I pouted, “I don’t get to choose a dog here, do I?” She sighed, shook her head and moved on to the next kid in the class. Needless to say I didn’t score a hundred in the subject.