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TRICHY: There was good reception for the free spoken Sanskrit classes conducted at 12 centres in Trichy by Samskrita Bharati - an NGO promoting Sanskrit language. Over 150 people turned up for the classes on the first day.

While the classes started from Thursday, people as young as 12-years to over 70-year-old attended the spoken Sanskrit classes.

Apart from English and a few widely spoken European languages, people have been showing interest in learning Hindi off late due to occupational reasons.

Asked on this Vedic language which is hardly spoken anywhere, volunteers from Samskrita Bharati say that Sanskrit language will open avenues for overseas job opportunities in the near future.

N Radha, 70, one of the volunteers said “Sanskrit will be the language used in fourth generation computers as western countries have been showing interest in this language.” Referring to Vedic mathematics, she said that it was in this language that the solar science was developed in our country.

M Ashok Kumar, 40, from Srirangam who had sent his 10-year-old daughter for the spoken Sanskrit language classes said that learning Sanskrit improves learning capacity of children in other subjects. “It is believed that learning of the language has connections to the neurological functions of the mind,” he said.

R Ramesh Kannan from a city college who was part of the classes was glad that the class wasn’t theoretical and stress was given on speaking. “The volunteers too were only conversing in Sanskrit instead of using other languages,” he said.

