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How does mother tongue make speaking English difficult?
- Binayak Kumar Mahato - 22025, ... 20 December, 2021

The most significant asset people bring to the task of learning a second language is their native tongue, which acts as a Language Acquisition Support System. The importance of English in today's world cannot be understated. English is one of the world's most important languages. Science, technology, commerce, economics, international politics, and diplomacy have all adopted it as their common language. Taking the data of 2021, around 1.35 billion people speak English worldwide either natively or as a second language. Chinese mandarin is supposed to be the second highest language spoken worldwide. Hindi and Spanish accounted for the third and fourth most widespread languages that year. Three out of every four English speakers are said to be non-native speakers. English is a compulsory subject in most of the countries primary and secondary schools. It is regarded as a promising and distinguished future source.

Our mother tongue is the language in which we were raised. It literally means "the language our mother taught us," or "the language we have spoken since childhood." It is said that every ten miles in Nepal, the language changes. This makes it impossible for us to speak with a standard accent because we all speak English in our own unique style. This is known as Mother Tongue Influence, which occurs when the impact of one's mother tongue on English becomes apparent.

This issue comes as a result of the vast number of vernacular language schools in Nepal. As a result, MTI affects the vast majority of Nepalese. Another factor could be that English is introduced to youngsters later in their lives. Children who begin learning a second language in early youth acquire it faster, according to studies. Learning at a higher age makes it more difficult since the children already internalize the sounds of his or her mother tongue and apply them to English, which is where the difficulty begins. Finally, it could be due to a lack of English exposure.

People enjoy making fun of those who speak with a strong MTI. It is not appropriate to do so since persons who speak English with MTI are well aware that they are speaking incorrectly. They are aware that when they speak English, others make fun of them, therefore they avoid doing so totally.
 


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The Pursuit Of Happiness
- Aswin Siwakoti - 23014, Grade ... 20 December, 2021


Everyone wants to be happy in their life, we can literally find no one in this world who is not trying to find happiness or be happy. It is that feeling that will make us feel delighted, satisfied and will give us a reason to live and find a way more perfect life which will help us gain more happiness. They are just surviving or living in order to be happy and getting a little closer to pursuit happiness of their own. Joy, gladness, heartening, blissful, etc are the minor parts of being happy. Every human being is always looking for the opportunity, place, or anything that will make them happy. People don't really know how happiness really works. I myself have experienced this phenomenon like sometimes we feel good, some days better than feeling good and some days we feel like we are at the top of the world and taking this inversely same thing goes on with sadness.

On top of that life is really futile, whenever one tries to find happiness they always get stuck on cliffs like the streets with no way of making a pointless life, no matter how happy one can be it is pointless without the basis on what is making us happy. Rather than pursuing the source of unlimited happiness one must really involve or prioritize gaining other feelings making oneself stronger and experienced which will make it easier to achieve the happiness he/she is trying to. Pursuing happiness doesn't only mean being happy it means the feeling of pure self, one's heart feels as light as a feather that satisfied feeling, for me it's like a steal a deal kind of feeling. Following the topic, each happiness will mostly end in futility and meaninglessly being happy has no point. Gaining knowledge is a necessity but the perfect amount of knowledge is hard to find, more like what we call impossible. The same thing goes with happiness. Many people can be seen gaining knowledge about everything but what they miss is the knowledge of truth and this makes all their knowledge pointless and it's exaggerating how this connects up with happiness gaining happiness is important but without any significant base it's kinda not worthy like it's not up to that level which we expected.

Human beings like being happy but they do work that only gives them happiness for a certain amount of time more like temporarily, they gain it and it fades away and that’s it and the whole process goes on a loop until and unless one gains the wisdom on why they are pursuing happiness and how does it modulates and shifts their way of life?
 


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देशको अवस्था
- Kabin Rijal - 22010, Grade XI ... 17 December, 2021

खाली पोखरीजस्तो भइसक्यो  देश
माटो मलिलो छैन, भयो वर्षौं दिन
बुढा र बच्चाले सक्दैनन् चलाउन देश 
हजार बढी होला, हुँदैन स्वाभिमान ।

देशमा काम गर्दा जान्छ सान
परदेश गई सामाजिक सञ्जालमा लेख्छन्, “कामको गरौँ सम्मान ।”
भाषा सिकेर जान्छन् गर्न खेती
बाँझाे छोडी जमिन, भविष्य देशको मेटी ।

देशको जमिनभन्दा महत्त्वपूर्ण छ नेतालाई कुर्सी 
प्रयास छैन देशलाई बचाउने
लक्ष्य यिनीहरूको सकेसम्म देशलाई पचाउने
भेडा सम्झी जनतालाई आफ्नो इसारामा नचाउने ।

जनता बेचैन छन्, छैन मनमा आश
पसिना बगाई देशमा हुँदैन कहिले नाश
धुलोमैलो वरिपरि गाह्रो भयो फेर्न सास
युवा आऊ, देश बनाऊ,
पाइँदैन सधैँभरि अरूकहाँ वास ।
 


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Anime Review: Komi Can't Communicate
- Swornim KC - 2022017, Grade X ... 17 December, 2021

Komi Can't Communicate is a Japanese anime series taken from a manga series  written and illustrated by Tomohito Oda. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday since May 2016, with its chapters collected in twenty-three tankobon volumes as of October 2021.At the high school full of unique characters, Tadano helps his shy and unsociable classmate komi reach her goal of making friends with 100 people.
Hitohito Tadano is a boy who heads into his first day of high school with a clear plan to avoid trouble and do his best to blend in with others. Unfortunately, he has bad luck and fails right away as he takes the seat beside the school's Madonna Shouko Komi without knowing. His classmates now recognize him as someone to remove for a chance to sit next to the most beautiful girl in school.
Komi is universally adored and immensely popular despite her mysterious personality. However, without the knowledge of everyone, she has crippling anxiety and a communication disorder which prevents her from socializing with her classmates.
When left alone in the classroom, a chain of events forces Komi to interact with Hitohito through writing on the blackboard, as a one-way conversation. Being the first person to realize she cannot communicate properly, Hitohito picks up the chalk and begins to write as well. He eventually discovers that Komi's goal is to make one hundred friends during her time in high school while they were communicating through writing. At this end, he decides to lend her a helping hand, thus also becoming her first-ever friend.

Overall it is a very fun anime with the reaction to how komi tries to communicate with people and Hitohito trying to help komi. Its genre is Comedy, Slice of Life. Its rating is 8.26 in myanimelist.net. It is still airing. I recommend this anime to watch if you like highschool drama where the popular girl struggles to communicate with people.

 


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“Virtual Worlds Are Useful For Children”
- Sanjay Puri - 23058, Grade XI ... 17 December, 2021

A research report made by the BBC shows that the virtual world can be very important for children as they can equally perform their daily activities in real life. This report is very relatable to the current generation of children as we all know that every child today has easy access to the internet. BBC conducted the research in their studio by making an online world for children which they explore on their own and share the ideas they got to the interviewers.

This research literally showed that the virtual world can be a better option to give proper knowledge to children. As they can connect with the information  more clearly in the virtual world than in the real world. We definitely know that this research will be a general practice in the future as we are rapidly developing in the field of science and technology. This idea is very interesting as it focuses on the childrens who are the future of this world. Virtual world also gives an opportunity to the children to create contents such as music,cartoons and videos. The children definitely love this idea and are very hopeful of this world coming into generalization. This world will create  various opportunities for the children who have hidden talents as it provides equal opportunities to each and every child. This research also gives us the basic concept about how education would be provided in the future. We are pretty sure that after some decades our education system will be based more on technical aspects than theoretical aspects as we are moving towards the age of advanced technology. The idea of the virtual world is very refreshing and we can see our coming generations enjoying it to the fullest. Virtual words are really useful for children as it is the world which develops the mindset of children more quickly than the real world.

Hence, virtual worlds can be engaging, powerful and real interactive alternative to the real world.
It is very useful for children as they can easily share their ideas and help in the enhancement of the world. Although, virtual world is an idea for the future, it has many positive aspects and provides a special platform for the proper development of children.

Source: BBC News
 


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Paradise
- Samyam Shrestha - 2022012, Gr ... 16 December, 2021

“Ah, Such a well organized place. Nothing seems to be wrong here. Everyone looks very serene.”

A world where there is no further place beyond the boundary. Huge walls surrounding the whole area. No-one ever spoke anything of it. Everytime people took umbrage at my question. The people are bereft of colors. I as a child was not able to understand until slowly the people in the area began to dwindle. Happiness started to fade away. The field had been overflowing with red roses.

Even though we had everything, a bunch of people visited daily to refill your supply. I still didn’t understand why people had dejected looks. Every year, two of the guards performed some tests that we were compelled to take.

Some people bless us to live a long life but why? What does that supposed to mean? The next day the people would disappear with nothing remaining. None of the people would talk about them. People show phlegmatic character and some behave like they never existed. A question that is left unanswered, A question that everyone seems to ignore, A question that makes people sweat.

“What is beyond those walls?”

Everyday we are living every second of our life thinking what will happen to us in the future. Why does the red flower smell unpleasant? What is the truth behind this world?

We tried to climb over the wall to view the other side in desire to know the answers. Everyone helped each other but when I reached the top of the wall. The view was completely different compared to the lands they were living in . Nothing but a complete wasteland could be viewed from where I was standing. Rotten bones, dead people and nothing more. The gate had a tunnel attached that led to somewhere. A clear view could be seen from where I was standing. I decided I would see what exactly are the people planning at the gates.

“Where do they take them, What is their purpose, Who are they?”

Many questions arose but couldn't find a single answer. I kept on waiting until the night. No movement was observed from the gate. Hunger was killing me. My friends had covered for me in the town. When the hope within was lost, and thought that it is now pointless even waiting for. Some people from the gate started heading towards the town. Then I crouched on the ground to watch them. Then I started working my way toward the people. A girl and a boy were dragged by the people from their family. The tears falling from their eyes, begging to let them leave. Ruthlessly hitting them, shooting at them and dragging their children away from home was hard to watch. Every second felt like suffocating. In return they received some red flowers. The blood trail of the boy and the girl was callous. The scene was terrific, it felt like a horror movie.

“What will happen to us?”
“There is freedom, but why does it feel suffocating?”

I shared the dreadful experience with my friends. Most of them agreed with me and the reason why others are disappearing was found.

Is there any point in living? What happened to them? What did they do to them? Was our birth for this purpose? We were borned on living hell.  

We asked the elder all the details and information for what the truth was. There was no point of hiding. All the secrets behind the area were revealed. Humans had reached the age of extinction. Hardly anyone beyond these walls had survived. They also stated that there were almost 40 places like this where they kept other human beings.

“So, we are just like cattles that are kept on a farm?”

No-one answered back. So there was no point in asking questions any further. We were test subjects. So there was no point of happiness from the beginning. So, this was the reason that my family was sad about. 
“Soon, I won’t be here anymore. Where will they take me?”

There was no reason to live anymore. The food felt tasteless. My body became pale , and I wasn't able to feel anything.

“Let me just end my life.”

When my turn had arrived, some guard came to retrieve me. I had just quietly gone with the people with a smile. I thanked my parents for taking good care of me. I had a good life. So, Please don’t feel sad when I am gone.

“Thank you for everything. Live strong, everyone.”
 


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छठ पूजा
- Diya Bajracharya - 23021, Gra ... 16 December, 2021

छठ ऐतिहासिक रूपमा भारतीय उपमहाद्वीपमा बसोबास गर्ने एक प्राचीन हिन्दू वैदिक पर्व हो । यो पर्व विशेष गरी भारतीय राज्य बिहार, झारखण्ड र नेपालको दक्षिणी भागमा मनाइएको देखिन्छ । छठ पर्व वा छठ पूजा कार्तिक शुक्ल पक्षदेखि कार्तिक शुक्ल सप्तमीसम्म मनाइने चार दिने लोक पर्व हो । दिपावलीको छ दिनपछि यो पर्व मनाइन्छ । छठ वैदिक कालदेखि भारतमा मनाइने बिहारको एक प्रसिद्ध पर्व हो । षष्ठी तिथिको प्रमुख व्रत मनाउने भएकाले यस पर्वलाई छठ भनिन्छ ।

छठ पूजाको समयमा गरिएका प्रार्थनाहरू सौर्य देवता र सूर्यप्रति समर्पित छन् । सूर्य हरेक प्राणीले देख्न सक्ने देवता हुन् । सूर्यदेव पृथ्वीका सबै प्राणीहरूको जीवनका आधार हुन् । सूर्यदेवको साथमा यस दिन छठी माताको पनि पूजा गरिन्छ । वैदिक ज्योतिषअनुसार छठी मैया वा छठी माताले सन्तानको रक्षा गर्नुका साथै उनीहरूलाई दीर्घायु प्रदान गर्दछिन् । याे प्रार्थनाले पृथ्वीमा जीवनका प्रशस्तताहरू प्रदान गरेकामा कृतज्ञता प्रकट गर्दछ र निश्चित मनोकामनाहरू प्रदान गर्न अनुरोध गर्दछ । छठी माता, आमा, देवी र सूर्यकी बहिनीलाई यस पर्वकी देवीका रूपमा पूजा गरिन्छ । यो रीति चार दिनभन्दा बढी मनाइन्छ । यसमा पवित्र स्नान, व्रत र पिउने पानी (व्रत) बाट अलग रहनु, पानीमा उभिएर प्रसाद (प्रार्थना, भेटी) र अस्ताउँदो सूर्यलाई अर्घ चढाउनुलगायतका कार्य समावेश छन् । याे अवधिमा व्रतबन्धीले ३६ घण्टा व्रत बस्छन् । याे अवधिमा उनीहरूले पानीसमेत पिउँदैनन् ।

छठ पूजा चार दिनसम्म चल्ने लोक पर्व हो । यसको सुरुवात कार्तिक शुक्ल चतुर्थीबाट हुन्छ र कार्तिक शुक्ल सप्तमीबाट अन्त्य हुन्छ । छठ पर्वको पहिलो दिन लाई नहाखाए भनिन्छ । याे दिन पहिले घर सफा र पवित्र पारिन्छ । त्यसपछि व्रतालुहरू नजिकैको नदी वा पोखरीमा गएर सफा पानीमा स्नान गर्छन् । याे दिन व्रतालुहरू एकपटक मात्र खान्छन् । यो खाना काँस वा माटाका भाँडाकुँडामा पकाइन्छ । पर्वको दोस्रो दिनलाई खरना वा लोहन्दा भनिन्छ । यस दिन व्रतालुहरू पुरै दिन व्रत बस्छन् । साँझपख गुँड र उखुको रस प्रयोग गरी खिर तयार गरिन्छ । एउटै घरमा एक्लै बस्दै आएका सूर्यदेवलाई नैवेद्य दिएर फेरि यी दुई कुरा लिइन्छ । छठ पर्वको तेस्रो दिनलाई सन्ध्या अर्घ्य भनिन्छ । परिवारका सबै सदस्यहरू मिलेर उपासनाको लागि तयारी गर्छन् । छठ पूजाका लागि ठेकुवा, कचवनिय (भातकाे लड्डु) जस्ता विशेष प्रसादहरू बनाइन्छन् । पूजाका लागि बाँसबाट बनेको एउटा टोकरीमा पूजा सामग्री राखिन्छ । पाँच प्रकारका फलफूल र अन्य पूजा सामग्री लगेपछि दाउरामा राखेर घरका मान्छेलाई हातले लगेर छठ घाटमा लगेर राख्ने गरिन्छ । यस पर्वमा शुद्धताको विशेष ख्याल गरिन्छ । यस सम्पूर्ण कार्यक्रममा महिलाहरू प्रायः घाटमा गएर छठी माताको गीत गाउँछन् । बिहान छठ पूजाको अन्तिम दिन सूर्य भगवान्‌लाई अर्घ दिने गरिन्छ । यस दिन सूर्योदयअघि नै अस्ताउँदो सूर्यलाई अर्घ दिन भक्तहरू नदी किनारमा जानुपर्ने हुन्छ । यसपछि सन्तानको सुरक्षा र सम्पूर्ण परिवारको सुखशान्तिका लागि छठी माताबाट आशीर्वाद खोजिन्छ । पूजापछि भक्तजनले काँचो दुध पिउँछन् र व्रत ताेड्नका लागि परान वा पराना भनिने प्रसाद अलिकति खान्छन् ।

नेपाल र भारतमा धेरै पर्वहरू मनाइन्छन् र ती प्रत्येकको फरक फरक विश्वास रहेकाे देखिन्छ । त्यसै गरी छठ पूजा पनि एक हो । 
 


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दुःखी आत्मा
- Diya Shrestha - 22032, Grade ... 16 December, 2021

गरिब र दुःखीले पसिना बगाउने
फलेको फल चाहिँ साहुले खान पाउने
गरिबका छाेराछाेरी भोकभोकै सुत्छन्, 
धनीका छोराछोरी चिन्ताविहीन बस्छन् ।

धनीको गाडी चलाउने ड्राइभर
आफ्नो घर हिँड्दै जान्छन्, 
धनीको घरमा मिठो खाना पकाउने
रातभरि भोकै सुत्छन् ।

अरूलाई आफ्नो कलाले हँसाउने
आफैँ भित्रभित्रै रुन्छन्,
बाहिरी सुन्दरतामा त पुरै संसार मर्छ,
भित्री कुरालाई त परेकाले मात्रै बुझ्दछन् ।

अरूलाई सम्झाउने व्यक्ति आफैँ तनावमा हुन्छन्,
मानिसले परिश्रम होइन, परिणाम मात्रै देख्छन्, 
यो संसार देखेजस्तो कहाँ हुन्छ र ? 
बाँच्न पाए पनि मानिसहरू कहाँ खुसी हुन्छ र ?
सबैलाई कुनै न कुनै चिजको खाँचो छ,
आफ्नो तुलना अरूसित गरेर के पाइन्छ ?
 


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Why are you having frequent Mental Breakdowns?
- Arpan Acharya - 23010, Grade ... 15 December, 2021

Have you ever had so much load in your head that you felt heavy? Have you ever been through so much stress that it feels that your nerves are cracking? I bet you have unless you live in heaven, I mean you're “dead”. Everyone gets tense sometimes and goes through catastrophes and It’s pretty normal. But having frequent mental breakdowns is a different issue.  Breakdowns are so disruptive that they disable you from performing your normal day-to-day tasks effectively. 
You feel exhausted, everything seems chaotic. You get paranoid, it seems that the whole world, gravity and simply everything is against you. Too many bad things come flooding in, that make you filled with a lot of complexities and just at that moment mental breakdowns happen. Basically it’s when you cannot handle the complexities that occur in your life. You cannot comprehend the state or situation you are in.

After being through such a state very often deteriorates your ability to deal with complexities. Then even a minor inconvenience can lead to breakdowns and other reactions. What other people see is that you are being very uncertain and anxious to cry or get disturbed by such a small thing and even you can think why am I being distracted by such a trivial subject. But deep down even you know that what bothered you was not just that small problem. What caused that breakdown was years of repressed emotions and not having a person to share your feelings. Why you had to suffer that terrible feeling was you had unhealthy and over expectations from others. Huge changes that's happening in your life such as migration, parents getting divorced or scenarios like that can deeply result in nervous breakdown. Also the grind or hustle mindset that is trending in today’s world has led towards success but it is also true that majority of the times it has caused mental breakdowns. Sedentary lifestyle and sleep deprivation might be the other causes.

Now what you have to work is on the right coping mechanisms. No solution is better than healing yourself with happiness. Heavy stress is created when you constantly work in the field where you have no interest so find something that you are really passionate about. Plant euphoria in yourself. By euphoria I am not encouraging you to do drugs or alcohol, you can generate euphoria by getting that dopamine hit. Ecstatic dances are beautiful, all you have to do is lock yourself in a room, close the curtains and move your body like no one is seeing you. Laugh like a maniac. Not to forget exercises are always great for that dopamine spike in your brain. Sleep tight & eat right. It’s not that substance that's making you high, it’s the chemical inside you. It’s you. You are magic, nothing else.
 


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