New Delhi: In a bid to advertise Sanskrit, the Centre has lately launched an app known as ‘Little Guru’ for individuals who wish to be taught the language. The app has been developed by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and goals to make studying Sanskrit straightforward and entertaining by gamifying it.
The app has been produced by Bengaluru-based Gamapp Sportswizz and is on the market on the Google Play Store.
Dinesh Okay Patnaik, DG, ICCR mentioned, “Little Guru is a beautiful symbol of what we proposed to do in teaching to people across the world. This app will help students, teachers and monks to be able to get an app that will help them learn easier at their own pace, whatever time they want. It helps you do better.”
He defined, “We realized something, we need something more modern, more up to date which works with technology to bring this ancient language to the people. We decided to use modern-day tools like machine learning, AI, and gaming techniques. Gaming techniques help in bringing life to language.”
Sanskrit is a flexible, systematic and phonetically correct language. Learn it by means of LittleGuru’s gamified strategies that makes studying straightforward and enjoyable. You can obtain Little Guru app on Google Play: https://t.co/XsRGChFC8E and App Store: https://t.co/UypPMVBHTO. pic.twitter.com/AWTr57P4pX
— ICCR (@ICCR_Delhi) April 11, 2021
The ICCR has up to now been offering Sanskrit books, materials for the propagation of the Sanskrit, also called ‘language of the Gods’. The institute comes beneath the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and in addition deputes lecturers, professors to universities and institutes.
This is to be famous that members of the Indian diaspora and foreigners have been requesting the ICCR for help within the Sanskrit studying. Many of the Buddhist, Jain, and different non secular texts are in Sanskrit and there was a fantastic demand in some nations for help in studying the language.
Sanskrit, notably, holds the important thing for the non secular textual content of many religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Many Indian languages like Bengali, Tamil and Marathi additionally use Sanskrit as a base.
Plenty of Sanskrit Universities internationally have additionally been eager on an app that would assist not solely the scholars who’re at the moment finding out in these Universities but in addition to behave as a feeder for younger students to be taught Sanskrit earlier than becoming a member of Universities.
Interestingly, a truth that is well-known, that within the 80s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) additionally did a examine to know which is probably the most computerable language. They realized given its clear grammatical construction and strict pronunciation that Sanskrit was probably the most computerable language on the planet as its construction allowed it to merge into any computerable system.
