
As a person from Assam, a state in Northeast India, my mother-tongue is Assamese. I use it all the time to converse with my family, relatives, friends, and so on. The other languages I use verbally are just Hindi and English. That is it. But when it comes to reading and writing, I admit I am much more comfortable only in English. And that simply is because English was, after all, the first language I was taught to write while in school. I studied Assamese till class 10, and then continued to use it while reading and writing but only for my dance lessons. So that was until a couple years back.
Today, I am really trying to reverse that. I am going to make sure that I read more and more Assamese books this year- it is one of my New Yearâs resolutions. I am going to make myself better versed in my mother-tongue. Because to call myself Assamese without knowing how to properly read the language is indeed shameful.
For this initiative, I have taken the help of this blog and my bookstagram account, and come up with the #readyourmothertongue reading challenge through which I will read at least one Assamese novel each month. And why only Assamese? Pick up books written in your language, if it is a different one!
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These books are ones I bought in December so I suppose this is your #decemberbookhaul2018 #part7 and the last too!
1. āĻāϞā§āĻĒ āĻā§°ā§ āĻāϞā§āĻĒ – āĻĻāĻŋāϞā§āĻĒ āĻŦā§°āĻž āĻĻā§āĻŦāĻžā§°āĻž āϏāĻŽā§āĻĒāĻžāĻĻāĻŋāϤ
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āϏā§āĻŽāϤ āϝāĻžā§° āĻšā§ā§°āĻžāϞ āϏā§āĻŽāĻž – āĻāĻžāĻā§āĻāύ āĻŦā§°ā§ā§ąāĻž
3. āĻŦā§ā§ā§ āĻāĻā§° āϏāĻžāϧ⧠– āϞāĻā§āώā§āĻŽā§āύāĻžāĻĨ āĻŦā§āĻāĻŦā§°ā§ā§ąāĻž
4. āĻŽāĻŋā§°āĻŋ āĻā§ā§ā§°ā§ – ā§°āĻāύā§āĻāĻžāύā§āϤ āĻŦā§°āĻĻāϞā§
5. āĻāĻŋāĻāϞ⧠– ā§°āĻļā§āĻŽāĻŋā§°ā§āĻāĻž āĻā§āĻāĻž
6. āĻŽā§°āĻŽā§° āĻĻā§āĻāϤāĻž – āĻāĻžāĻŦā§āύā§āĻĻā§ā§°āύāĻžāĻĨ āĻļāĻāĻā§ā§āĻž
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āĻāĻā§āĻāĻāύ⧰ āĻāĻŋāϤ⧰āϤ āĻā§āύ⧠āĻāĻāύ āĻĒā§āĻŋāĻā§ āύā§āĻāĻŋ āĻāĻĒā§āύ?
Have you read any among these?
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I will be picking up these books- one by one- in the #readyourmothertongue challenge!
Are you participating as well? Do join in! đ