Cadets of Chail military school to learn Dragon's language

[Red.Indian]

CHAIL (Himachal Pradesh): Now the cadets studying at one of the oldest Rashtriya Military School (RMS) of country at Chail in Himachal Pradesh would learn Chinese language. Ministry of Defence (MOD), which is running the schools, has introduced the Chinese language in the study curriculum of the school from current academic session.

With this, RMS Chail has become the first Military School to start foreign language Chinese in its curriculum.

While giving details of the development, Principal RMS Chail, Lt Colonel Arun Kulkarni said that RMS Chail is one of the leading five Military Schools of Country and introduction of Chinese language in the school is part of a pilot project of MOD.

When asked what prompted them to introduce the Chinese language only, Lt Col Kulkarni submitted, "We share our boundaries with China with whom we have to deal in many ways like Militarily, business or trade purpose and as our schools is feeder for the armed forces, it was thought to be appropriate to introduce Chinese language in study curriculum of the future officers of the armed forces".

Located in the sprawling 1550-acre campus in the sleepy mountains of Chail, a hills station near Shimla in HP has produced a number of Officers who are serving the nation on high positions in Armed forces and Civil services.

Schools traces its history to the King George Royal Indian Military College (KGRIMC) which was established at Jalandhar Cantonment in Feb 1922 and laid the foundation for the other four Military Schools existing in the country today. RMS, Chail is also the oldest English medium military residential school in Asia. The school provides quality education to the wards of defence personnel and civilians with the aim of preparing them for the AISSCE conducted by the CBSE and facilitating their entry into the Armed Forces as officers. RMS Chail has completed 87 glorious years and is administrated by the Directorate General of Military Training at Army Headquarters. The Central Governing Council (CGC), headed by the Defence Secretary, Ministry of Defence is the apex governing body for the school Once a student enters the portals of Rashtriya Military School, he becomes a Georgian for life and his aspiration to don the uniform of the defence services gets wings.


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[sexy gun]

Indian forces should be well conversant in all the major languages spoken by our allies and close friends

 

[Ignited Mind]

Althogh a welcome move, It's not enough.

The GoI should make it mandatory for RAW and IB personnel too.

Also, RAW must be given clear directives and funds to expand its network in China and among CCP cadres.

Althogh a welcome move, It's not enough.

The GoI should make it mandatory for RAW and IB personnel too.

Also, RAW must be given clear directives and funds to expand its network in China and among CCP cadres.

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

These schools are not Military schools where officers or jawans train.It is a school where kids go for their education and also get to learn military discipline.Although a lot of the students eventually join the Armed forces but some also prefer to lead a civilian life.So in my opinion its not only the Armed forces which will get the benifit.

 

[Abhishek_]

speaking of learning Chinese, how is the demand for teachers of mandarin?

 

[Lonely Hermit]

Mandarain is quiet a difficult language they have completely different philosphy of using language compared to Indo European style.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Mandarain is quiet a difficult language they have completely different philosphy of using language compared to Indo European style.

not really. Subject-Verb-Object. Prefix-Word-Suffix. No honorifics - language doesn't change depending on social position. There is no gender connotation. Tenses are described in prefixes and suffixes and can fully be described by just 3 tenses: past, present, future. It is even simpler than English and Latin languages in this sense, because there's no masculine/feminine nouns and no odd tenses. Writing is 30% phonetic, rather than 100% phonetic the way English is, which increases specificity without making it too hard. There's a 1:1 correspondence of pronunciation and character, which is not necessarily true in other languages like Japanese or even English (the A in Crate vs. in Cat). No one actually memorizes 5000 characters, but by memorizing the most basic 2000, you can derive all the rest.

now, Vietnamese, Japanese and Korean are totally different and have totally different grammars. Most of all, the language changes based on sex and social position, and have non English grammars (subject-object-verb for example).

the reason people think Chinese is hard is because they are not putting in effort, and because its alot more painful and difficult to listen to broken Chinese than to broken English - it is often not understandable.

 

[Guest01]

LoL, that is my school. Good to see that something about the school found its way on this forum. One more headache for the poor sods. LoL.

By the way any other Georgians on this forum??