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UUI' lt'cuu CHRISTIAN LAETINER mum h.“ cxpeucd a small ruwn surprised ar what she saw smallcr than I expected around and found It IS mu I! seem: at frrsr.’ she sold downtown area I: really around a lot to explore all diff: and ummcl aug ‘l UHIVI'ISHY wuffwllt In I ht‘ lrunms lh.‘ thing the (L! w whv.’ uld 1N rul 0ka It the real :hlldrrn sh: rent (lusts 20! to SIX years In age [hey were rs and what Impressed me he Involvement of the parent u classes where parents lust kmdng Kimal Dag): Shah [hill nu nnu any old the nkc gem July 4 Wed to Sat (4 days) 9am to 3pm August 28 Tues to Fri (4 days) 90m to 3pm . ‘ ancn aughl but vusurd ( 'clrd But I ‘ 5 much huggcx sand. adding, [00m malt ranging (10m 1'th was me and Llhhy Ild from )uffwllr ml lhc pvt This was at a time when a newly lll‘WlBl- nzed Indra was hungry for Western mfluences, chief among them being the English language The lmponancc of native languages was on the decline In upper middle class households and a masrery of the Englxsh language trans- lated into certain professronal success‘ I was an eager teenager caught in this new wave Already m an English medium school, I was naturally drawn to French. Panelan cafes and French hairdo: were on my mlnd when I came home With the application sheet. But my father was'unmovcd‘ His reason was snmple » 'You have your emu: life to learn other languages, But If you don't know your own language, you've lost a blg part of your culture because you will have nothing m pass on ' That was when l was fourteen, A decade later. while studying m thc US. I wrote lct- ters to my parents In Cularari With a sense of pride. Another few years hence, I am grateful to my father for bang firm I speak to my toddler mostly in Cularatl. in the hope that she will remember It when English takes over, On my recent mp to lndxa, I had noublc finding children's smry books in Gularau 1hc bookseller told me they weren't being pnntcd any more buausr nobody was buy- 1N than LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Th: m: Mfr“ Instructor dunng a Smuflvdle hat are pm at the program. ' l he aim s to encourage an acuvc lifestyl: among hildrcn, but In a fun way so that hey don'! thunk of u as extras: The An Exercise In Fun being upset In allow me to opt Klr Comparitive Cultures 1c mews, excrcnscs and dance Jl Lnbby Echlm takes a break pro-school class at the agh Shal' Mt Grade 8 when to learn French :I Hus pnmarv ngu: mm stuflvle©youngdivmcom mg them Everybody 15 too busy learning Englxsh because clearly. n 15 the language that Will take them places I grabbed the remam- Ing few copies he had They cost me roughly two dollars But I know they are DI’IECIESS m l was ImPICSSCd when l learnt that Tamxl and Mandann Will he offered to elemen taty sehool children m Stuuffvrlle Starting In September Run by the York Regron Drstnct School Board and funded h\ the Mtnrstry of Education and Training. the program needs lust 25 students wrllrng to learn a particular language In order to offer it I know at least 10 Cu‘aratr kids just 111 the neighbourhood so I was surprrsed that Cuparatt didn't make It onto the list When I called the lnternauonal languages program coordmator. she cxplarned that the decisions are based on demographics. and that by the tune Ayma, my l6~month-old, is in school. It will probably be one of the languages offered. But she also told me that if I col- lect 25 names of students who wish to learn Gujarati. With the parents' sxgnaturts. they can axlange to teach the language So Hus-'15 a showâ€"out to 1:wa Cuprau In Stoufhnllc. Emaxl me If you're Interesmd In helping your chlld learn her language and We can get the ball rolling Wnle to Kinpal at kmpal dagqu-gmall com Kin/a! Dagh-Shah runs the Reading and Creative Wnung workshop fo: duldren and vouth The summer sesmon bcgms Iuly 10 Emazl or call on 905591-1797 for enqumes 0U nu :xpencncc With the class as v Slouffwllc and u was my good I to have enloycd both} Wm: to K mjal at kmpaldagllmgmadrom Fun :5 what all the chsldrcn had, wuh their parents ‘l'm luvmg WI! a glut Impleulon of the (own and its famnhcs It scam to be an cxtmncly community‘omntcd town Everybody m the class seemed to know someone from somewhflc else ll lust seem; Ink: 3 mac place to Inn" sand bbby, who is gtmng named at th: and of June and movmg to Windsor With her husband, 'My husband got mto law school that so we Will be relocating. But I Will mm Stoutfwllc and how gratifying the cxpcncncr was ' What Libby wnll muss most. howwrt, us the cffcct the class had mam goal, though, a to have fun,‘ she explained lh: Lrhlldfm, Over nine weeks, I found that the 5 really wanted to explore and It I a huge positive Impact on then} a huge p( lopmcm T ‘n the lnmsl s thc fran manned at the c 10 Wmde WM husband got I: W: Will be rcloo )utfvdlc and hov ranch Nllh Impact on the" Is a class I took f my fnrnd. who It was my first class as well as ale pr Stouflvillo xlune