But the reason I phase it that way is because there's a disconnect between where I'm from and where I am I've been in Bangalore since as long as I can remember I probably spent a year or so in Kerala but the memories I have are not prominent enough for me to believe that I am from there Every memory I've ever had, every core memory has been in Bangalore and the only memories of care I have is that of a visitor it's that of an outsider and that's the way that sometimes my own family treats me So the language of Malayalam has not come very easily to me and just like my relationship with the state, I've had a complicated relationship with the language I remember moments where I tried to learn and I tried to read and write but it always just failed to work out It wasn't Sunil recently that I had a professor come into class and she wanted us to do translations so she said just write down a language that you're very comfortable in So my immediate resort was to go to Hindi which was my second language in school in Bangalore so I knew the script but I wasn't really confident speaking it and she said, you know what?
Rehan Shah
@ririshah · 2:04
First of all, great job, because I know Madame is in. It isn't an easy language to learn, adjust like be on good terms with, and it takes a lot of time, effort. So kudos to you for that decision. And I have seen a lot of people in Bangalore, a lot of Malayai who don't speak a single word of Malayalaman, who've never tried. And that's totally fine
Rehan Shah
@ririshah · 1:20
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
yashasvi Gupta
@yeswithyashi · 0:30
I could find your my my my my my my my my my my relationship with Malayalam to have more and more efficient in that when you loan any a new language beside it is of India but still like now you can't learn a new language so maybe this could help you
Anvithi NH
@Anvi4 · 4:16
But you know, it's just like when you learn it and you don't use it for years or catch up with it or read things and stuff like that, you just tend to forget
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 2:48
But Malayalam, somehow I haven't been able to learn to read and write as much as I would like to. I can read bits of it, but writing definitely not. And that is something that I'm not very proud of, particularly because at the end of the day, I would love to be fluent in my mother tongue, in native tongue, that is, and learn to be able to read and write with equal panache. Right
You are replying to Riri Shah, I would think you didn't spend much time in Travandrum, did you? Ever?
And so I spent ten years of my grade school in Kerala, graduating out of high school from the same school. So I had a lot of difficulty reading the language. I was quite slow in reading the language and although I did study Malayalam since grade one, I would read the newspaper quite slow and it got to the point where I would only read English literature and the newspaper. So that's the difficulty that I had with language