Mumbai: Learn Marathi language free of cost as 31-year-old Dombivli resident launches unique online course
Kaushik has started two blogs, which offer information pertaining to basic grammar, sentence constructions, daily conversations, usage of short forms and others.
IN ORDER to teach Marathi language to the
non-Maharashtrians, 31-year-old Dombivli resident Kaushik Lele has launched a
unique online course — a free of cost service that has started to steadily gain
popularity.
Kaushik has started two blogs, which offer
information pertaining to basic grammar, sentence constructions, daily
conversations, usage of short forms and others. Talking about what prompted him
to start such a platform, Kaushik, a software engineer in a multinational
company, said, “As a hobby, I learned Tamil and Gujarati with the help of some
books. When some of my colleagues were trying to learn Marathi a few years
back, I tried to find out the available options. While I found a few books, I
thought they were not sufficient for learning the language. On the internet
too, the same problems existed, as very few options were available. This made
me uneasy — we insist others learn Marathi, but we haven’t created enough
options for them to do so.”
He
said he decided to use the online medium which can be accessed by a large
number of people. “Since I like learning and teaching languages, I decided to
take it on myself to start the task of teaching Marathi to non-Marathis. So, I
prepared two blogs – learn Marathi from English and learn Marathi from Hindi.
With the lessons that I prepared, I have also created more than 200 sound clips
of the conversations to make the learner understand the language fast and to
help them in pronunciation,” he said terming the course a ‘one-stop-shop’ for
those who wish to learn Marathi.
“I am keeping it free as then people will
prefer to learn it. Also, I will be always happy to see others learning my
mother tongue,” he said.
Besides, Kaushik has created a forum on
social media to answer the queries related to the language. “The YouTube
channel and forum on social media is being used by the students, who are from
outside Maharashtra and studying in the cities like Mumbai and Pune. Also, many
foreigners and NRIs too are learning the language,” he added.
To Kaushik’s credit, Jonathan Galton from
London, his student, came to attend the 90th Marathi literary festival held in
Dombivli recently. “Jonathan had come to see the literary festival. Though he
is not fluent in Marathi, he is able to converse with people,” Kaushik said,
adding many other foreigner students, including from China, are learning the
language.
Kaushik has also started a similar course for
the Gujarati language, which also includes blog, among others.
Source | Indian Express | 16 February 2017
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Pralhad
Jadhav
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