The methods of teaching Panjabi in Sofia University “St. Kilment Ohridski”
Keywords:
Panjabi, Indian languages, language trainingAbstract
Aiming to broaden the range of the Indian languages taught in the department of Indology, the teaching of Punjabi was offered to the students. In the condition of very limited tuition time for studying Punjabi as a fourth language, the methods of teaching were founded on the principle “from the known to the new”.
The knowledge of Hindi as a main studied language and of Urdu and Sanskrit as additional was widely used. As the material was introduced gradually, we constantly kept seeking the links with what was already known from the other languages. In this way, we managed to cross the language barrier and to create the feeling within the students that they can understand and to a certain extent use the Punjabi language.
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