My daily commute takes me approximately an hour or the time equivalent to the duration of a period of language class at a good school. Sometimes, when I am detained in traffic, this time spent in learning turns unbearable because commuters, the teachers, start speaking in the bus that which should not be learnt at class. However, with the exception of me picking up a few wrong words in Marathi or Hindi, the time spent in learning languages on the bus till I alight seems pretty decent.
For anyone who plans to take this multilingual class, the first thing to remember is the fact that you have got to do the learning. The second is to stretch your imagination.
Step 1: Get into the class
Getting into the BEST is more difficult than the mild difficulty of an entrance test (ET) such as BET, CET, GET, LET, MET, NET, SET, VET, WET, and the other ET-abbreviated forms. The competition is fierce; it's not the number of seats here, it is a true-to-its-name ENTRANCE TEST. There is just one entry. Well, the elderly may enter through the front exit, but the others have to grow old enough to use this door.
Step 2: Pay the fee
When in, we buy the ticket. My work place is not too distant, just one hour by bus. However, if you plan on studying more languages at a pretty reasonable two-digit sum, you are in the right place. This is where we start. Buy the ticket using what you hear in the other languages spoken, only say the right name of the stop or your teachers may think they are being truly followed. The conductor is a multilingual expert. He knows nearly all that you may say/nay say, so do not worry. I once asked him for two tickets in one Claylanguage sentence of Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, and English words, and I got the right tickets.
Step 3: Learn
The BEST has the following faculty and resources:
The bell rings ... Bye!
(Claylanguage celebrates its three years of BEST travel.)
For anyone who plans to take this multilingual class, the first thing to remember is the fact that you have got to do the learning. The second is to stretch your imagination.
Step 1: Get into the class
Getting into the BEST is more difficult than the mild difficulty of an entrance test (ET) such as BET, CET, GET, LET, MET, NET, SET, VET, WET, and the other ET-abbreviated forms. The competition is fierce; it's not the number of seats here, it is a true-to-its-name ENTRANCE TEST. There is just one entry. Well, the elderly may enter through the front exit, but the others have to grow old enough to use this door.
Step 2: Pay the fee
When in, we buy the ticket. My work place is not too distant, just one hour by bus. However, if you plan on studying more languages at a pretty reasonable two-digit sum, you are in the right place. This is where we start. Buy the ticket using what you hear in the other languages spoken, only say the right name of the stop or your teachers may think they are being truly followed. The conductor is a multilingual expert. He knows nearly all that you may say/nay say, so do not worry. I once asked him for two tickets in one Claylanguage sentence of Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, and English words, and I got the right tickets.
Step 3: Learn
The BEST has the following faculty and resources:
- Conductor - A multilingual expert
- Passengers - Teachers who speak in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Konkani, Urdu, Punjabi, Hinglish, English, and so forth. I have a choice of an Express class, but the ratio of the number of teachers to a student decreases if few get on board. In addition, my other option, the air-conditioned class limits learning to high Hinglish alone.
- Senior Passengers - Masters (They teach well.)
- Flat-screen TV (I once heard an advertisement in Marathi that when first translated in my mind said "Speak English in your language Marathi." Fortunately, I later learnt that the phrase "Learn to" had to come before the sentence.)
- Newspapers - I have read a lot of Gujarati via this resource.
The bell rings ... Bye!
(Claylanguage celebrates its three years of BEST travel.)
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