Easy Learning Mon VCD for Mon People Who can’t read and write Mon made

Independent Mon News Agency

October 30, 2004

The first Easy Learning Mon Video VCD made by Sanghklaburi based Winyangita Foundation for Mon people who can’t read and write Mon, the Winyangita Foundation Director said.

“You do not need to have a teacher, you can have this CD and learn it by following reading alphabets and listen the voice in it,” said Nai Orkpung.

“Every local Mon people can learn it with VCD machine, for the children who difficulty to have a teacher and the children do not have a chance to learn Mon from their parents,” Nai Orkpung explained it VCD intention.

In the first edition of Easy Learning Mon VCD, put basic learning Mon mixed with Mon traditional song. It made with 29 sessions for the learner and named Loik Kae Thell Jae Nok, Mon alphabet on the big wooden white board.

“We will distribute soon as possible and we asked Mon community organization in world wide to help distributing it,” Nai Orkpung said.

“We will sell it with the decision of Mon organization and it was price 200 Baht for a copy,” Nai Orkpung said.

According to Winyangita Foundation, it was took time for two months to make an edition and it intend to Mon people that are developing in learning their own languages.

“It was Winyangita Foundation upgraded how to learn Mon from learning in book and by teacher. We wanted Mon to have such like others in developing our nation,” Nai Orkpung exposed.

Winyangita Foundation also planned to make Easy Learning Mon VCD for Thai-Mon and Burmese-Mon who wanted to learn Mon.

“We can finish it in the next two months for Thai-Mon Video VCD,” Nai Orkpung told IMNA.

According to Mon community Australia leaders, they wanted such Video VCD so much for Mon community children in Australia because they can’t have special teachers. A Mon community leader from there also told IMNA about they wanted to have website for learning Mon language.

Mon people in foreign country, some rural areas in Burma and Thailand and town cannot learning Mon language because difficulty to have a teacher and permission for opening Mon language school.

In Burma, there are more than 200 Mon National Schools, more than 30 thousands student attending it and more than 30 thousands of student attended Mon Summery Literature training in last year.

Because of Mon National School and student number increased, it made competition to Burmese military government school in Southern Burma and many time MNS forced to close down according to MNS authorities.