Learning Asian Languages Some Asians came here from a country where the same word is written in 15 different ways on every banknote; others from a country where a word spoken in dozens of different ways is written in only one; and others from a country which annually commemorates its martyrs of this generation who died for their national language. What are these languages? Why do children born here want to learn them? PRABHU GUPTARA investigates these and other questions with the help of Asian parents, teachers and learners.