In today’s world, small kids don’t get to interact much with their busy parents who go to work. Grand parents live far and apart; visiting only occasionally, hence these kids don’t get to learn much about tradition and culture. Earlier children used to listen to stories from their grand parents in their own mother tongue, now it too is on a down side, and is being replaced by cartoon network and certain English story books.
Would it not be nice if children would have a opportunity to listen to stories in their own mother tongue. I came across one such effort last week. Mrs Asha Shenoy (known as AshaMai) has a website which contains many small stories narrated in South Canara style Konkani. The stories are just between 3 to 15 minutes each which is ideal for kids. In total there are 50 plus stories; all in Konkani. They are available as free download in MP3 format at http://ashamai.zenusinfotech.com/Stories.htm. If you have kids then you can play them one story per night as bed time story, or in case you don’t have kids then you can listen to it too. Overall it is a wonderful attempt to reach out to the future generation of amchigelle kids.
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Good job.
Hey, as I write this, I am listening to a story called “doni majjara” as I write this comment, already heard buddantu kailo… I am feeling happy, as I am just recalling these stories, My mom and granny had told it to me in similar fashion…truly appreciate efforts by AshaMai… it is really important that each one sticks on to their mother tongue…. And I am truly enjoying these stories.
@Arundathi: Yes! the stories told how a granny would tell a story, that is one of the main aspects that makes in nice, I have just heard 1-2 of them till now….will hear them slowly, especially when bored. Thanks to AshaMai for putting in the effort.
This is great link !! Real good effort by Ash Mai!
superb job keep it up it will be of help for my son to listen to story and i will also get some stories to tell him as he likes a lot