About mother tongue

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This video speaks for me. It might not be valid for other nations, but it definitely is for Pakistan, where increasing number of people believe or are forced to believe that it's not cool to speak in Urdu or the regional languages. English is helping us get into the mainstream for sure, but I feel miserable when I see grandparents feeling bad about being less educated than their children and grand children, or mothers sweating to learn few words of the language to match up with their kids' standards, while language clearly might not be their strongest point. It's not an easy transition we are seeing, like between Urdu and Punjabi and Arabic, it's learning to read from left to right, making a fool out of yourself in front of strangers, feeling bad about yourself even though you're a wonderful person.


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