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This chapter explores the importance of one’s mother tongue in shaping identity and intellect, emphasizing the value of learning multiple languages while respecting the native language.
A young scholar goes away to study and learns many languages, but becomes so proud that he forgets his own mother tongue. While returning home, he falls into a river and starts to drown. He cannot call for help because the villagers do not understand his foreign languages. A simple villager finally saves him, and the scholar learns that one must never forget one's own mother tongue, however much else one knows.
However much knowledge or how many languages we learn, we must always remember, use and respect our own mother tongue.