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Orange County teacher is on a mission to preserve Telugu, a language that's endangered in U.S.
by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
January 31, 2016

Three nights a week, Vidya Tandanki works at trying to save an ancient language perceived as threatened in some parts of the globe.

She hosts children in her Irvine home, where she has converted her garage into a classroom. It is painted bright turquoise with colorful posters and paintings hanging on the walls and also has a computer station, white boards, supply cabinets and rugs covering the floors.

There she teaches them Telugu, the children's mother tongue, which is mainly spoken in India.

…According to Bayapa Dadem, president of the Telugu Assn. of Southern California, about 5,000 Telugu families live between Los Angeles and San Diego, with Orange County being the biggest hub in the region. Orange County's Telugu population is the fourth- or fifth-largest in the country, he said, and it has been growing for the last decade.

Tadanki's first public class had seven students — her son and some of his friends — and was held in an extra room in the family house.

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