What is Sharda learning - English or personality development?

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Posted: 11 years ago
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Ekk Nayi Pehchaan: What is Sharda learning - English or personality development?



The homemaker has finally stepped out of her comfort zone to be more than just a wife and mother

Ekk Nayi Pehchaan is a story that revolves around Sharda (Poonam Dhillon), an illiterate housewife who sacrifices her happiness for the sake of her family. Her family ridicules her for not knowing English language; all except her daughter-in-law Sakshi (Krystle D'Souza).

Sakshi enrolls her mother-in-law for English coaching classes and makes sure that she motivates her at every step. So far, we are in agreement with the show, their storyline and how it's progressing. But the recent episode really confused us.

Sharda's professor asks her to write an essay on herself and make a speech in the class. After much deliberation, she successfully writes it and after beginning hesitantly, goes on to talk non-stop about who she is and what she does that makes her life - her family, chores, hobbies et al. But here's the interesting part, everything is in Hindi accept for myself Sharda Modi'.

Well we are certainly confused - is this an English coaching class or some personality development course? Coz instead of being trained in English, she is being trained to talk in front of a crowd and being coached to identify herself, her likes, her dislikes and more.

Shouldn't Sharda try to make a speech in English, no matter how broken it is? Isn't that the idea behind going for such a class,

http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/ekk-nayi-pehchaan-what-is-sharda-learning-english-or-personality-development/


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Posted: 11 years ago
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LOL true..On the 1st day,the teacher taught the English alphabets n then asked them to write an essay on themselves..Even if the students write the essay in Hindi n then the teacher teaches them to translate it in English..How is someone supposed to learn the alphabets one day n then learn how to translate not just WORDS,but a whole ESSAY from Hindi to English??šŸ˜•
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Posted: 11 years ago
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^^^^ very well said. šŸ‘šŸ¼
even I was baffled when the teacher asked them to write after teaching alphabets and I thought what in just few minutes he expects them to write. šŸ˜† he should get an award for the worlds quick teacher 🤣/

sharda skipping class, pajama party, romance of karan/shakshi. the show will loose the meaning.
I thought sharda was to get educated so she does not have to sign (anghutha chaap) without knowing what she is signing for!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Maybe it's for later in the class, so they have to write another essay later on themselves. And say how they have improved. I was confused too. But before learning anything, Shatda should know wht her Pechaan is and know ht it isn't wrong to be a housewife. I don't know why tht teacher told them to write an essay on themselves. I remember having those things back when I was younger, but the point of tht was to practice using sentences. Maybe it is because nobody really answered properly on the day when tht teacher asked people to tell about theirselves. It was just some lady that said she on Page 3 of some newspaper and Sharda only said tht she was Mrs. Sharda Modi. I think we will get to know later the reason for tis. For now, I'll go with the flow.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Oh yeah, and the article got it wrong in a way. It's not only English but basic education they are teaching. And also tht guy is probably tryin to increase everyone's self confidence any theirselves so they know they can learn and succeed.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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@samarth. good comments šŸ‘šŸ¼
hope sharda can read and write in no time and shock her husband, Latika and Chirag. also dadi
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: Ms.S.K.

@samarth. good comments šŸ‘šŸ¼

hope sharda can read and write in no time and shock her husband, Latika and Chirag. also dadi


Thank you😃😳 And I hope she shows the Terrible Trio their place!!
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Posted: 11 years ago
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thanx for sharing
that's so true! Isn't it supposed to be an english class not a hindi personality class šŸ˜†
Chalo, some speech is better than none I guess
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Posted: 11 years ago
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I think that is why they 1st showed Sakshi sending Sharda to another coaching class where only young students were there, who only came to learn English( they did not need overall personality development) but in this class all r more or less aged n don't even know the english alphabets. May be that is why the teacher is trying to boost his students confidence by helping them realise more about themselves n not suffer from inferiority complex along with learning the language english.

As far as writing essay was concerned the makers of this show shud have done some research work. First students r taught alphabets both capital n small, then consonants vowels, three letter words, grammar n a lot more, then only someone can construct a correct sentence. Writing essay comes much later.

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Posted: 11 years ago
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Hmm...

Well.I don't agree with the article completely... I agree that first you need to learn . Alphabets then vowels n grammar and so forth.
I have a basic question ... whenever you go to school , college , interview or job .. you are asked to introduce yourself... similarly when you ask a class who has grown up ladies... you expect similar questions... here they were asked to write about themselves which is fair enough I feel. The only flaw was probably it should have been in English... even broken would have been sufficient.

Probably the CVS have kept in store the English speech for family get together I guess...

And that's fine for me as of now

Lucky
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