Languages you can speak/learning ? - Page 2

user472884 · #11 12-02-2010, 01:12 PM

Are all those Indian languages at least pretty similar to each other?

Ronald · #12 12-02-2010, 01:28 PM

How about learning Dutch?

Not easy for foreigners to learn.....

Anyway my languages are: dutch (fluent), english (close to fluent), french (still working on it, but improving), italian (a bit), german (pretty well) and fries (which is a small language which is officially spoken in a part of Holland - IMO useless, but hey it counts)

Aayush · #13 12-02-2010, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Jalen

Are all those Indian languages at least pretty similar to each other?

If you are perfect in Hindi then learning or understanding other regional languages are not a big deal. Pretty much inter-linked.

#14 12-02-2010, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jalen

Are all those Indian languages at least pretty similar to each other?

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Originally Posted by Aayush

If you are perfect in Hindi then learning or understanding other regional languages are not a big deal. Pretty much inter-linked.

You think so because you have been living in a multi-lingual environment. It's not that safe to assume that a person knowing Hindi would understand all those regional languages. Knowing Hindi certainly helps to understand 2-3 regional languages spoken around you, but biggest factor is that interact with different speakers everyday. Take Bengali for example, there is no way that a Hindi speaker can understand Bengali naturally. It's just we who get feeling like that. Same can be said about other languages too.

Some languages have same script while some have common lot of words which makes it easy to understand. Maithili, the language spoken in my native place, can be understood with ease by Hindi speakers, can be spoken very roughly, but when you try to write proper sentences with somewhat decent sentence formation and grammar, it's gets difficult to do so.

Aayush · #15 12-02-2010, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Merci Alizée

Take Bengali for example, there is no way that a Hindi speaker can understand Bengali naturally. It's just we who get feeling like that. Same can be said about other languages too.

I'd would like to disagree with you in this topic. I have a Bengali friend. Everyday when we go to school, he used to talk to her sister in the bus and I pretty clearly or well almost understands what they are talking. This used to happen when the first time I ever heard that language but yeah, speaking may be a problem. What you told might be true for other languages. I'm not telling that learning Hindi is a substitute to all other languages but it helps a lot to understand or learn them pretty fast and easy.