Kazakh Culture

Kazakh culture is changing for better: Development of Kazakh language and its perspectives in Kazakhstan. Language as a chief part of the culture plays a huge role in existing and developing of the nation in the independent way. First and foremost, language is closely connected with country's history, culture, its conventions and traditions. Language is the establishment for turning a major community to the entire nation. Moreover, language is the key for comprehension of the country's way of life. There is no person in the world who might know customs or traditions of the country well, while not talking their language. Therefore, language is a strong tool in learning any other culture or even religion. (Zhanaiym Aubekerova, 2007). The

It was not forbidden to speak Kazakh, but it was believed that if people did not know Russian well, they could not get well-paid jobs and would not excel at work or even in personal relationship; they were thought to be illiterate and considered lower social class. Because of these restrictions against Kazakh language, vast majority of Kazakh families were sending their children to Russian schools and tried to speak primarily Russian at home. Nowadays those children from that generation have grown up and many of them do not speak Kazakh when some do not even know the language at all. Today, even those who can speak fluently in Kazakh find it as a difficult language to use in professional areas such as science, business, and some administrative settings because it remained largely a "kitchen" language in Soviet times, never developing a contemporary and written technical vocabulary. Nor has there been thorough translation of technical or popular literature into Kazakh. Therefore, for most Kazakhs Russian remains the chief “world language”. (Glenn E. Curtis 1996.) Kazakhstan is an independent country with its own national and cultural heritages, along with its own mother language. Regrettably, this fact is disregarded by millions of those

Thus, various activities are planned to be held in the country to raise the value of Kazakh language for all citizens of Kazakhstan. “If we start teaching Kazakh at the kindergartens we will achieve certain results. We will create all necessary conditions for that.” (Massimov 2007). The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan introduced in his annual Message the emphasis of developing nation’s Kazakh language skills. The Government of Kazakhstan has appointed many laws and initiated many political programs to encourage the development of Kazakh language and to enhance interest to learn Kazakh among both the young and older generation. As a good example, free Kazakh language lessons will be accessible for everyone: officials, students, workers of different companies. In state institutions and enterprises teaching classes are opened, scientific and methodological materials are released and spread among the learners. As part of the development of infrastructure for teaching the state language, a unified network of the language teaching organization were created for the adult population, including civil servants. State language teaching courses are working in all central and local government bodies. By the order of the President, workers of government agencies who are non-Kazakh