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In a mid-sized island roughly the size of Ireland, you have an incredible variety. You don’t have to travel long distances in Sri Lanka to come across something quite different. I can’t think of anywhere else-at least that I’ve been to-where in a comparable space you have as much variety of people, cultures, flora, fauna, and landscapes.

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Getting under the skin of people in these places, walking all over the landscapes, was just wondrous. My main fresh discovery, traveling around the island properly, was the back-of-beyond places that I didn’t really get to see as a child. The attraction of Sri Lanka beyond that, for me, is all wound up with being half Sri Lankan and having been born and spent my childhood there, and then coming back to write a travel memoir about the country. You see that expressed in the way people dress and what they eat, where they go to worship, and the languages: Sinhala and Tamil as well as English. It’s an incredibly diverse country, culturally, ethnically and religiously. I like to think of the Sri Lankans as the Irish of Asia or the Irish as the Sri Lankans of Europe, because they’re very friendly, open, warm and welcoming. Most of it is very green and lush-that’s the wet zone of the country, which covers over half of the landmass. There’s the immediate charm of the place. Before we get to the books, I wondered whether, as an introduction, you could tell me why Sri Lanka is such a fascinating place to discover? You then rediscovered it as an adult so, in a way, you’ve experienced it as an outsider as well. You were born in Sri Lanka and lived there until you were 12. Foreign Policy & International Relations.For now I just want to read more textbooks, newspapers, and gossipy magazines. But I'll aspire to that level of literary analysis in a decade or so. Except when I talked to my friends who grew up in Sri Lanka and did the national O/L and A/L exams for Sinhala language and literature my impression was that they didn't cover too much discussion or essay writing on figurative language the way I had to for my 11th and 12th grade English classes. The vocabulary wouldn't be as hard as analyzing the connotations made in literature. I unfortunately moved countries right as we got started on that critical linguistic moment lol.Īnyways yeah my ideal plan is read about Sri Lanka in Sinhala. So with understanding the context in English first, all we had to do was just start getting used to new written vocabulary. And in my history and religion classes from grades 2-5 we were learning everything already in/with the English language.

Like 5th grade was when we just started reading longer material. And come for a much longer stay.īack in school/Lyceum International School, we were reading about the Buddha and King Vijaya in my Sinhala class. Next time I'll go to the public libraries too.

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I bought his trilogy series translated into English from the bookstores in Colombo and Anuradhapura while I was browsing around like crazy for two weeks in 2017.

Yeah I was thinking Martin Wickramasinghe would be pretty hard to read for now. Haha thank you for the cultural tip on getting more help quicker!😂 But I don't understand the national news at all.Īlso I know that written language is different from spoken language but I'm done being intimidated by the difference. Gappiya, Ratta, Gehan and Blok are funny too. So far I've been watching interviews with Umaria, Danu, and other celebrities.

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If there's a great YouTube channel for Sinhala language learning feel free to share. Aaand interact with Sri Lankans on a regular basis in Sinhala. All I know is that if my family stayed all the way to high school I would have been independent enough to read more on my own. Read Sinhala subtitles for English and Hindi movies. I watched a lot of teledramas and talked about them with my cousins and parents.

We just replayed a lot of VCDs and DVDs for English movies back then.

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I guess it also helped that our TV didn't show a lot of English programs like Nickelodeon. It's an English medium school but my family lived pretty far from school, I had to work hard to communicate with my relatives, and even got a tutor until I went from failing to getting As in my Sinhala class. The only time I formally got to learn the language was when I went to Lyceum from grades 2-5. I don't know my level of Sinhala at the moment but it's definitely never gotten me called a kalu suddhi (other than by my cousins until they stopped :p) until a Lankan realizes mixing English would help. I'm wondering what popular books are used as dictionaries, thesauruses, books with idioms and proverbs for Sinhala? Right now I'm not in Sri Lanka but the last time I visited I bought the 'Encyclopedia of Sinhala language and culture' by J.B.

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