shrIvatsa

2023-06

Fixed much of the terrible pronunciation.

Started making them read letter by letter, groups of two letters, groups of 3 letters etc..

2023-05

Attended with sister vibhA (2015 born).

Started teaching devanAgarI letters via ISO/IAST.
Made them write क का etc.. in both scripts.
Asked to transcribe sanskrit shlokas in ISO to devanAgarI. Observed some good progress.

Introduced concepts such as ब्राह्मण्य, चातुर्वर्ण्य, उन्माद …

Initial state

ममाश्चर्यम् ईक्षत - प्रथमकक्ष्याया आरभ्य “हिन्दी"भाषां शिक्षतः। अधुना केन्द्रीयविद्यालये सप्तम-कक्ष्यायां पठन्न् अपि देवनागरी-पङ्क्तीम् एकां बहून् दोषान् विहाय पठितुं न शक्नोति, न च लेखितुम्!

He does samidAdhAna, sandhyAvandana (without understanding anything), but does not now anything about rAmAyaNa or mahAbhArata; asks me if I don’t feel uncomfortable about what others say walking around in uttarIya etc.. No clue about the 4 varNa-s and their duties.

2012

Birth