Natural Love of Languages

Some people love to learn language. They go to institute and enroll in a language course where both written and spoken form of that particular language is taught. A British Indian student amazed his teachers by learning to speak 10 different languages. Arpan Sharma is a 10-year-old boy who lives in Oldbury, West Mids. He has a lot of lot of interest in languages. He taught himself the following languages:

1. French.
2. Spanish.
3. German.
4. Italian.
5. Swahili.
6. Mandarin.
7. Polish.
8. Thai.
9. The difficult language Lugandan of Uganda.
10. Hindi.

The boy has learnt Hindi also from his parents. It has been reported by Daily Mirror of London. Richard Lynn, headmaster of Blue Coat School stated that Arpan is a language genius. He listens to the exact pronunciation of a word from a language and can repeat it perfectly. He learnt this language using CD ROMs.

In fact in my life, I started learning Hindi first when I was in St. Thomas Church School at Howrah Maidan. There were a large number of Hindi-speaking boys and girls. First the language was strange to me when I was admitted in class 2. I then listened to my friends speaking. I heard them speak the Hindi and just tried to guess the meaning. First my friends used to laugh when they saw me looking at them surprised. Then they learnt that my problem. I gradually picked up the language as time progressed. First one or two words, then phrases and then sentences. Then a time came when I started learning the language as my third language from 7 and 8 classes. I studied the languages and attended classes in my school. I loved Hindi. I was proud that I was learning a language which is primarily a language of my own land. I felt proud of this language. I studied so well in one term of my three term exams in class, that I scored 72 out of 100 in Hindi. It was a scoring language with simple questions in exam. Our teacher wore a spectacle and he is lean and thin and tall. But he used to teach us well!