You Are Never Too Old to Learn A New Language.

As I mentioned in my earlier posts, that I might deviate away from my main topic from time to time.
And now is such one time!
In the news;
"A Korean language speech contest will be held in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon later this week to boost language communication between the peoples of Myanmar and Korea, according to the Embassy of South Korea here Wednesday.
The 6th Korean language speech contest, scheduled on Friday at the Sedona Hotel, covers four skills and those who win the grand prize and gold prize will be provided with scholarship, the sources said."

I just wanted to say that its never too late to learn a new language.
For the last couple of years, we all know that the popularity of Korean Drama Series in many forms, history, court drama, medicine doctor, modern age drama, hotelier, and so on have been extremely popular.
And amongst those that have been really hooked-on include my own mother. Yes, she loves her series, and is already in front of the T.V, in advance, shooing away all those who would possibly disturb her from her show of the night.
After a while, she felt that, much of the feeling was lost by reading the Myanmar sub-titles. So what is a son to do, a marketer of a son! He identifies the need and then goes and looks for a product or service to satisfy this need, in this case a Korean language course. And I enroll my mother in the basic 4 skills course!
Now this is the second time that I did something like this, the first time was an Abidhamma Course, a few months earlier, (I am so proud and happy that my mother really enjoyed the course, and she mentioned that she finally understood some aspects of buddhism more clearly now!, Nibbana is waiting and the doors are open for me!).
So she duely went to the course, the oldest student in the class at 64 years old. The second oldest student who was 44 years old came over and introduced herself and she made a lot of friends at the class, some barely old enough to be her grand daughters!
During the course, we would find her at home doing her homework, and finally we have come to a full circle, we could say to our mother "Have you finished your homework, Mom?" And she would complain that it was too much! and the sort.
But she got it done, all of it done, and she memorised over five thousand Korean words and a few dozen sentance structures all within that 6 month course.
She now watches Korean DVDs with the subtitles switched off. And she also has become the person in the neighborhood to go to when you don't understand what went on in the drama of the previous night!

It just goes to prove that you are never too late, to learn a new language.
Now this has caused many people that we know to start taking language courses, if our mom can do it, anyone can.
Proud to be the son of an local inspiration!