Malayalam alphabet souvenirs
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Boat races of Kerala, referred to as vallamkali is a thrilling expertise for each rowers and spectators. Primarily performed throughout Onam, the harvest pageant in September, these races that includes the chundan vallams or snake boats are iconic. Because the oarsmen wearing white mundu and turban sing aloud the vanchipaattu (boat tune), the snake boats transfer in pairs to the rhythm of their full-throated singing and cheering.
A combined bag of college students together with professionals, retired lecturers, and authors, faculty college students, and homemakers who converse Marathi, Konkani, Telugu, Kannada, and Urdu are all ears at a web based class as they be taught the nuances of the Malayalam phrase vallam. Helmed by the award-winning Malayalam instructor EC Sabu, the lessons introduce college students to the thrill of studying a new language, giving a peek into Kerala’s tradition and traditions. “At any time when I introduce a new phrase in Malayalam, I give them a few examples on how the phrase is intertwined with tradition,” says Sabu, vice-principal of CMS Increased Secondary College, an award-winning instructor with three many years of expertise educating Malayalam.
“Whereas studying vallam in addition they study vallamkali and vanchipaatu. One other phrase kaayal takes them to the wonder of backwaters in Kerala,” he explains.
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Together with the Coimbatore Malayali Samajam, Sabu has has been conducting the certificates course in Malayalam for thirty batches of scholars, a mixture of native and non-native audio system. Because the third batch of the web course Amirtham Malayalam supplied by the World Malayalee Council(Coimbatore Province) begins on October 12, Sabu enters his thirty third 12 months of educating Malayalam. “ The course has change into a melting pot of cultures giving rise to new friendships,” he says.
Some of the passed-out college students have shaped WhatsApp teams the place they share PDFs of Malayalam newspapers to maintain the curiosity within the language alive. “Be it Onam, farming or some of the outdated sayings, there’s a lot in widespread in all of the South Indian languages,” observes Sabu including that together with Malayalam alphabets he attracts commonalities, myths, and festivals which might be intertwined with different cultures and traditions. “For instance, Onam and Pongal are harvest festivals. When everybody shares their tradition, nice studying occurs within the classroom,” he provides.
Sabu begins with simple letters, shifting on to varieties, sentences, grammar and translation, and spoken language. Yearly, a quantity of non-native audio system attend to grasp Kerala’s artwork and tradition, its panorama, folks and literature. “Docs enrol for skilled necessities, as they attend to a lot of sufferers from Kerala. Now we have retired professors who need to use their time to be taught a new ability. Then, there are Tamil authors and poets who’re drawn to the course out of sheer love for the language. They need to be taught Malayalam works of well-known authors like Madhavikutty, Vaikom Mohammed Basheer, and MT Vasudevan Nair,” explains Sabu including that one other chunk of persons are piqued by Malayalam cinema.
The net lessons open for anybody, he says, have made it simple for folks to attach from Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi to Mumbai and Chennai. “Such alternatives for regional languages brings a actual sense of celebration of unity in range.”
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Printed – October 03, 2024 04:30 pm IST
