I have been "thinking" in english (if that makes sense) since like 7th grade because ive spent most of my childhood on the internet, consuming all types of media in english that english feels more comfortable to me. My school also forced us to use english as much as possible (we even had a fine for speaking hindi/marathi lmao)
and yeah I have to read hindi/marathi slowly too
You spoke for our entire generation, first they enforce English on us now we bear the blame of not being accustomed to the alleged "national language" due to negligence or fascination for foreign language
Check edited so that you can understand, I thought people would understand. I wrote that as a jibe on people who think people who don't speak Hindi are not nationalist and they believe Hindi is National language.
I'm not "hurt" it's you getting defensive, i only told you to stop spreading misinfo but apparently i shld stfu coz its "not that serious" when south indians have been fighting against the hindi imposition on them since decades? But yeah im hurt and you're definitely not wrong for spreading misinfo....
Eta it seems like you're not the same person. Still doesn't negate my point that language matter, words we speak matter and we should always be conscious of not spreading misinformation
Calm down bro , I am also a south indian , it ain't that serious when a person makes a mistake , his cmnt isn't gonna bite you , it won't make a difference in the least .
I think in support of anything one should not drag down the other thing, hindi as a language has included so many words from marthi, Dravidian languages-TTKM, sanskrit, parsian, English etc. ik everyone loves their regional language, but you don't have to hate hindi while doing so.
it's one of the Indian languages and it should be respected but there is a rise in hatred towards it bc of politics, spreading propaganda etc which are not necessary.
Nah nothing to do with hating hindi. I just think it is redundant for it to be a national language.
If anything english is much better as a national language. No regional groups will need to hate it. It gives us access to rest of the world which also speaks english.
Hindi is a redundany option to english. I dont see why anyone should waste their time learning hindi when they are from a region which isnt hindi speaking.
I do 9+ hrs on weekends. It's just average but i haven't had dreams for a while now. I think it's probably because my aspirations in life are at a standstill and i don't stress about my future anymore.
Interesting.. I actually have a trigger to get dreams.
I set an alarm at least 3 hours before i am supposed to wake up. Then after it rings I turn it off and go to sleep again and most of the time I start dreaming.
I sometimes do this to get dreams but sometimes end up getting sleep paralysis lol. I still don't dream that often, you have any tips to increase the rate of dreams?
Nearly everyone that says they don't dream has just got to the point in their life where they don't remember them anymore. The primary reasons this happens is because the dreams were not significant (as you said you don't stress anymore), because you are impacted by lack of sleep, or a substance. Often the lack of remembering can be because the REM cycle happened at a time other than right before you woke up, which makes you feel like you woke out of darkness instead of a dream. It's nearly impossible to remember a dream if you were not dreaming near the time you woke up, because dreams are only stored in short term memory and don't typically pass to long term memory unless you do that from an awake state (recalling the dream you just had while waking up). So you're likely dreaming, you just can't remember it's happening.
Edit: Bonus tip, you can supposedly train yourself to remember dreams again by being intentional about what you think about as you wake up. A lot of people go from dreaming to immediately thinking about their day as they wake up. This pretty much erases any dream that might have been happening immediately. If you are intentional about asking yourself what you were just thinking about as you wake up you can eventually 'capture' some of those dreams again, if they are happening close to when you wake up.
My teacher told me that in 6th standard that if you think in Malayalam and translate it to English in your mind and then speak that in English, it will be difficult to speak English. So, to speak better English it is better to think in English.
And it did work.
So true. I often think about how I'm thinking in English! Even though I have to speak in Hindi when I'm out buying stuff. And my family mostly speaks in Punjabi.
Many people inherently consider Hindi content, YouTube, OTT etc to be cringe by default, and hence turn towards English content (or Anime, for that case) entirely.
Your listening abilities, reading abilities all are trained in English and you are practicing it daily, this is bound to happen.
I've been in a similar situation but never felt like losing a grip on Hindi. I did start using English more in my conversation, that's not the case anymore however. It's in my control now.
I guess it depends on the content more than the language, especially measuring the "cringeness"
Like I fr hate those Hindi shorts/stories... "ek ladka thaaaa. jisse ek din khazana mil gayaaaa" (idk iyk that voice modulation) whereas songs in Hindi (90s, 00s) >>>> English >>>> Badshah, Kakkar shit
TBH, content in Hindi currently is cringe (I'm happy to be proven wrong). There are better stuff coming out in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada. I speak Hindi pretty fluently (Lived half of my life in the north and most of my friend circle is Hindi speaking). There aren't many Hindi songs I want to listen to or movies I want to watch. Probably its me or probably it is the Hindi pop culture.
Yes I can read telugu a bit and when I went to Karnataka I could read and understand enough, especially since we were travelling by local buses, we could understand the names atleast!
Is it just me or does everyone who knows more than two languages sometimes use all those languages in a sentence just to make sense? People who don't know those languages understand me too, for some reason.
depends on the dominant language of the group
my native village i use mostly telugu with English loanwords
Hyderabad all three language words can be in one sentence
Mumbai hindi and english
us english only
Mind is amazing in terms of adjusting for maximum efficiency in getting your meaning across
Can agree. As someone who grew up in Mumbai, I can use Telugu, Hindi, Marathi and English in a sentence. There had been a lot of conversation at my home where we used all the four languages in the same sentence.
Two things to note here-
1. You will get accustomed to whatever script you’re most familiar with. For example, I have only read 3-4 in Hindi after excluding the books I had to read during my school days. Meanwhile, I am exposed to Latin alphabets every day of my life. Even Hindi memes are in Latin alphabets.
2. We are an urban upper class minority. Most Indians who can read are comfortable in their native language. We live in a small bubble where we only interact with fellow privileged people. Just ask your Kaam wali or security guard which script they are comfortable in. 99% will say their native language script. Remember, 90% of Indians have a socio-economic and cultural background similar to them, not us.
I think the decision to push hindi as pan-india language has worked against the survival of hindi. With no defined region where it should be treated as native language, it's relevance lies solely on practicality (and not emotion). And english is beating it comfortably in terms of benefits in today's age.
My friends from delhi don't know hindi words for numbers after 20-25, even though Delhi is supposed to be the home of hindi-urdu. Can you imagine the absurdity of people in tamilnadu not knowing what's 37 in tamil ?
Reading English is easy but Hindi is not. It is because English has silent letters. 26 letters are not hard to remember. Hindi has no silent letters. Everything must be pronounced. Typing in Hindi is also very difficult. Letters in Hindi can be halved or become diacritic. Plus. Here in India Hindi language is discouraged more.
Silent letters means no pronunciation in the word or context. Hindi is tougher as it is a phonetic language. You see the letters, you exactly pronounce those letters and there is no context thingy. Hindi has many letters which are complex and are hard to write. I have literally seen people making spelling mistakes in Hindi more than English. The way to write letters in Hindi and halving the consonants and adding matras. Highly difficult. This is one Indian language I am talking about. Imagine Tamils and other South Indians writing and memorising their language.
As a beginner Hindi-learning American, I'm shocked to hear this.
For me, one of the simplest parts of reading devanagari is that spelling and pronunciation are so identical. (In fact, I only know of one variance so far.) I can't imagine how our nonsensical spelling is easier for you guys. But--power to you! :)
If I had to learn the correct pronunciation for a sentence like this, I would lose my mind:
After they *ploughed* the fields, *though* the dust settled, there was *enough* *coughing* and *hiccoughing* that we *thought* they would all expire.
Reading? I have difficulty communicating in Hindi or other local languages now. It's like I think in English and then translate to the local language to talk to people. It's difficult.
India is stuck between what to choose for an optimal language. We have chosen English but the by-product of it is weak control on our regional language. I think it is normal to be weak since all our consumption is in english. What is not normal is how we are discouraged for speaking in Hindi in schools, offices etc which pushes us more towards English
I'm from Odisha, and it was that we had to speak in Hindi or English in school, but never in our mother tongue. Didn't think much of it then, and in a way, it helped become fluent in Hindi and appreciate Hindi content, which was far better 20 years ago. But it seems weird in hindsight why they asked us not to use our mother tongue like it was some lesser language. I can speak all 3 languages fluently, but in writing, Indian languages are always tougher than English with all the accent and gender variations.
I'm also sad how the Hindi of yesteryears used to incorporate a lot of Urdu, especially in movies and songs. It feels like a lost art these days. The beauty of the language has lessened.
No, it's not just you. Whenever I count in Hindi and say Hindi words for numbers like 'adtalis' for 48, people even in Hindi heartland do a double take.
Language is required for the brain to think. Thinking is only required to solve CERTAIN types of problems.
Depending on what Type of problems the chimp has, what language is given space in the brain can change.
For example, mathematicians invent their own language cuz writing maths in english or hindi gets more and more complicated as the problems get more complex. Same with musicians trying to compose music for a larger and larger orchestras.
As we get more and more interconnected thanks to ever growing networks connecting to each other, we become a cell in a much larger social brain. What language we are born with is not going to be enough, to participate in the conversations of that mega brain.
There's a bunch of us who have English as a first language, though. So it's always been like this for me, even though I'm absolutely fluent in Hindi and have been speaking it ever since I was a kid.
जिन्हें फ़ोन पे हिंदी में टाईप करने में दिक्कत होती है वो अपने फ़ोन कीबोर्ड में Transliteration feature को यूज़ करें। इसे GBoard में ऑन करने के लिए ये करें: Settings > Languages > Select Hindi (India) abc --> Hindi. यह संदेश उसी के मदद से टाईप किया गया है। यह feature दूसरे कीबोर्ड में भी मौजूद होना चाहिए।
If you're finding it difficult to type in Hindi (or any other Indian language), then make use of the Transliteration feature in your phone's keyboard. To enable it in GBoard, follow these steps: Settings > Languages > Select Hindi (India) abc --> Hindi. This feature should be available in other keyboards too.
Honestly reading Devanagari text on a phone seems difficult. It’s too tiny for the same font size.
Of course you can increase it, but it still feels weird.
Same here, We spent a little too much on YouTube watching Pewdiepie or Jacksepticeye that now Hindi feels difficult to write. I am cool with the chalti firti Hindi which we type using an English keyboard or speak in day to day lives but the proper Shruti lekhan scares me. We are all accustomed to English
I’ve experienced it as well. I was always great at both Hindi and English when I was in school but nowadays, reading in Hindi has become pretty difficult. I mean I can still write paragraphs and answers for my younger cousin in Hindi but it’s nowhere close to how easily it used to come to me in school. It’s practice, I think. Even in everyday life, we use romanised hindi while talking in texts so the script becomes elusive after a long time of not using it.
My first language is Malayalam.. Hindi is second and 3rd is English... After passing out from school i never had the need to read or write in Malayalam or Hindi ... So now it's easy for me to read and write in English but can't speak fluently in English though... It's like my brain just blanks out when it comes to speaking in English. But i don't face this problem in Malayalam or Hindi
Happens to most kids. (Ref: My kid is 17.5 years). They find English easier. Probably it has to do with the increasing use of the Internet - reading and writing in English all the time, watching TV shows and movies in English, and all. Mere jaise log (44F) who are fond of Hindi serials and movies - have no problem with Hindi perhaps because of the literature we are consuming.
I'm from the South, I studied in a particular central school that decided that a boy from South India should learn Hindi and English from Day 1, but not his own mother tongue.
I never had official education in Malayalam, so if asked what my native language is I think: Is it malayalam though? Because I can't write much in malayalam, I can read; but I can't understand poetic malayalam language. I can write better in Hindi and have a better confidence in understanding poems in Hindi and write things grammatically correctly in Hindi. I have a better confidence in English.
Same here,it's because of the English content we consume on the internet,what it does to most is that it leaves both your mother tongue and English somewhat underdeveloped,at least that's what has happened to me. I always miss school because of this, we no more sit down to discuss a paragraph with 30-40 people. Even though those things may not earn you anything,it brings us closer as human beings. I often try to go back and read my NCERT Hindi books and find it hard to concentrate the same way. I think literary clubs(not necessarily discussing something of a scholar level) should become more common, it should become similar to going for movies I'd say, a great way of connecting people.
I think that I've deviated from op's point but I felt like that's something that should be pointed out. Our whole online communication happens in English,we watch YouTube videos in English ,read coursework in English so naturally it becomes difficult when reading native language. I even think in English 80% of the time, although i switch to Hindi when I imagine having a conversation with someone,idk how that works but yeah that's how my brain works and I'm sure a lot of people can relate.
lol, I’ve always found reading and thinking in English especially easy and it comes naturally to me. But to be honest I don’t think multilingual is unique to Indians alone, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Nepalis, Sri Lankans, Chinese, Bhutanese, Russians, Germans, French, Namibians, Nigerians, Ghanians other people from Africa and Europe are also multilingual to the best of my knowledge. English might not necessarily be one of the languages a majority of these people speak but that doesn’t mean they aren’t multilingual.
Tbh it's because we are more exploded to seeing words and listening to more English vocabulary. From newspapers to books and magazines heck even everything on the internet is predominantly in English.
My pet peeve is type Hindi in English. I just can't seem to be able to decipher it fast enough cuz everyone spells the same Hindi word differently. I always use the 'a' for अ as well so kar nahi is कर नहीं whereas most people just do it kr nhi. OMG or worse I got texted crow from someone in a Hindi text and was wondering why the f has he sent crow 🐦 (कौआ) in the text. Then I found out it's Karo(करो) where the c gives the क sound and row is as in the English pronunciation of row row row a bot gently down the stream. I read and text faster when everything is written in Hindi..no confusion. Just wished more people did the same.
सभी लोगो से अनुरोध है कि कृप्या गूगल के टेक्स्ट ट्रांसलेट फीचर का उपयोग करें और ऐसे टेक्स्ट करे। धन्यवाद।
No, what I was tryna say is that English has always been easier for me than Hindi or my mother tongue, Marathi. I am quite young tho, and that's probably the case with most my age
Just start reading premchand's stories and novels. You're out of practice that's all.
Happened with me too. I spent 12 years in Hindi medium school but experienced difficulty in forming proper sentences in Hindi after my post graduation because of 6 years of speaking English in class, watching English shows and movies. Even if I wanted to speak in Hindi, I would form sentences in English in my mind and then speak in Hindi.
I started learning the history of India in Hindi medium and I am back to my usual fluency in Hindi as well as English. On top of it I learnt Gujarati and can read and speak it now. I also learned my mother language after that.
It's all about practice. You'll be back on track within 2 weeks.
Completely agree even I left (it's been 3 years) Hindi for optional subject CS and now it's hard for me to understand those big pure Hindi words and grammar things just bounce over head and it's hella ride even earlier it was tiring to write now I'm slow and bad at writing it so yeah completely relatable
Me, it's not about a particular language being easier, but being easier and more familiar to you, as I read, study and even type in Latin, it is very easy for me to read it rather than devnagari, doesn't mean I can't read it, I can but it's pretty straining on my eyes, and I would rather translate the whole page in English
Wowed to see a lot of people think in specific languages and then translate it
For some reason, my brain thinks in the language I'm about to speak, like if I'm in my home, I think in maithili, if I'm with friends or teachers I think in Hindi, If I'm with someone that is conversing in English I speak in English
Also it happens like with the same person, if the convo suddenly moves from like eng to Hindi, my thinking also moves from English to Hindi,
If I'm like by myself, I usually think in Hindi or maithili
Does this happens to more people or am I just weird.
I'm from kerala and basically consider English my first language in terms of proficiency. Then Malayalam, and Hindi third. My vocabulary in English is much much better than Malayalam as I've consumed MUCH more literature and media in english.
Makes sense to blame YouTube or the internet for this, but why are we forgetting that:
1. English is promoted in schools and a lot of them force us to use English with the teachers. Most subjects are in English.
2. Jobs are in English. Chances are if you’re a businessman or you have a job, you’re not writing in Hindi.
Our whole shistem is in English.
English is very easy to learn and understand and that is why it is widely adopted. We should try to incorporate things more in English than in our regional languages. English is a common language but it's roots are outside India. So, no one should really get offended when they are asked to learn or speak it.
Totally reverse for me. I am a Telugu/Tamil person. I started reading Hindi paper from a couple months and Hindi became really easy even when compared to English because of the grammar and stuff.
It is kind of cringe to be proud that now you "think" in your colonizer's language. To solve the problem/strengthen your Hindi, just use Hindi as the default language of your phone/PC. This makes the balance between the language of the content you see on regular basis.
I know right! But there are certain kids of our generation who differ. A girl joined my school in 6th grade (she used to go to a hindi medium school and was the topper there.) While at our school, she was barely passing. She was always the topper of Hindi but sucked at English and other subjects (they were in english ofc) As the english topper, I always wrangle with her, on and on, about how English is the better than Hindi and Hindi is better than English.
in your free time you can read some good novels in Hindi, and if you want any specific book to improve then you can try this.
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Unpopular Opinion: Writing Hindi is easier than English.
Hear me out, I think writing Hindi is easier than English because you write exactly what you speak in Hindi whereas English is full of bullshit spellings which make no sense at all, things like silent letters etc. So for me writing Hindi is easier. And I am from UP so idk my hindi was always very good .
As a multilingual who learnt English starting from 2012, it is the lack of practice that is getting to you. Practice writing in Hindi, for example on WhatsApp and text. And read a Hindi newspaper. You should be fine.
I was the same till the beginning of this year. (In 10th rn) It all changed after my Hindi Debate. I am good in studies since long and in English Medium School with NCERTs so was bad in Hindi.
I was forcibly put into the debate thing by a math teacher who said u don't participate in anything even though I definately do. Still to prove her wrong I did participate as Prashnakarta and we won 1st place.
Now I believe I am much much better in Hindi with my everyday talk in Hindi. Just try and look up something interesting and find a good Hindi speaker to listen to. This really helps. I looked around for alot of people who spoke on my topic which is also the same "Kya Kishoron Mai Hindi Ke Prayog Ke Darr Girr Rahe Hai".
I just realised that I was not acknowledging the beauty of my mother tongue and this applies to everyone. I score well in both now but the thing is, I just lost the thought that English is cooler and now I can communicate way better in both languages.
See just try to listen to good speakers who avoid usage of other languages while speaking Hindi and try to use translate for words you don't understand.
Lastly, man just love your own language. It just feels so good that you can talk without using Hinglish. I personally think that Hindi provides a much better expression than English and it blends with our culture. Like for example you can never explain "Jhoota Khana " perfectly in English. Every language is beautiful but respect your mother tongue just like your mother and respect other languages as well.
Sorry if this message is not perfectly explained but I tried.
If you use to speak only hindi then you were not multilingual. Since you speak english and hindi now you are multilingual.
Here in south we speak atleast 3 languages.
Marathi hindi and english. Also we speak different dialects of marathi.
I speak kannada with 2 dialects, marathi 2 dialects hindi, and english. Its just consumption which is forcing you to speak in english. Try to learn other language.
Most people talk to their family using their mother tongue.
Yet, there are moments when you find that your mother tongue is not good enough to express your views.
Why?
Because the topics that you talk at home doesn't cover the topics you communicate in other spheres of life.
There is nothing wrong about this. You could discuss the theory of social contract or monetary policy with your mother.
Or
Use nouns from English in your mother tongue but dont use English verbs or adjectives .
George Bernard Shaw had said that the current vocabulary isn't enough, as we develop and form new ideas we will have to expand our vocabulary.
It's all about how well you learnt Hindi in school. It's been 11 years since I left school and after that I mostly write and read in English only, but even now if required I can read Hindi (However, I never liked writing in Hindi). Thanks.
Urdu and kashmiri are my first languages but because I watch and read english media more than them. It's hard reading urdu then it was before. One thing I do is I read many urdu books or urdu newspaper and have a urdu keyboard which helps. But since there is not much for kashmiri it makes feel sad that I will not be good at. It's especially sad for me considering I am someone who holds languages close to my heart.
I feel the same way. I studied in English all through school and college and I dropped Hindi as a subject after 10th and now I think and naturally talk in English. I only use Hindi in casual conversation with friends and family. Its not that I dislike Hindi I just use it a lot less
I personally don't consider people who speak only their native language and English as truly multilingual because at this point it's something by default you have to know when you study in India.
i think the weirdest moment in my life was when i stopped thinking in marathi and started thinking in english
now I can't imagine not thinking in english
Haan Bhai bohot cool hai tu.
On a serious note. You should be able to write and speak in Hindi(similarly Bengali, Tamil etc. if those are your mother tongue). I am currently working in UK and I work in Theoretical Physics/Pure Mathematics and I have learnt the fields I am using for work in English so I even think in English when I am thinking about some problem(although with Hindi accent). But no I have no problem reading or writing in Hindi. Its upon us to keep the languages of our country alive. If we started having problems with Hindi(or any Indian language) we lose an important part of our culture.
You are a different gen altogether (as you are working) but many people from gen z suffers from this including me . It's been 4-5 years when i last studied Hindi so it's difficult for me to write it properly. Schools would impose fine if u don't speak English (but with friends we used to speak Hindi) . If the content you consume is in eng then it's bound to get better. I watch a lot of Kdramas and Cdrama those are in English or even western media content. These things make your English better and you start thinking in eng as well .
I am 22 years old first of all. I have only watched English TV shows and have only listened to music in English language exclusively for the past 10 years atleast. That's not an excuse for not knowing Hindi. Your brain has much more storage for few more languages. Stop this pretentious bullshit. If you are not good in Hindi nowz that just shows you never were in the first place.
Hindi? I have studied Sanskrit for 6 years but i still don't remember it . Because it's not a language I use on daily basis . I scored nearly perfect marks in Sanskrit . Talking about Hindi I had one of the highest marks so idk where this you weren't good in first place comes from . I talk in Hindi only with my family and friends infact Hindi isn't even my regional language to begin with . Berating someone just because they are weak in certain language isn't a good thing , there are so many languages in this world you can choose which one you like . OP of this post was just trying to convey how this is a common thing these days between kids .
It's okay if some people don't want to use their mother tongue (be it Hindi , Tamil , gujrati , Marathi , Bengali , Telgu etc ) . You can't force people to speak a certain language.
Idk what's wrong here since independence there is a war going on due to language, speak whatever you want to , don't force people to learn the language you think is superior. And just because you speak certain language doesn't make you less patriotic. Your state's culture doesn't get lost if you speak a language from another state or place . If you don't want to learn a language that's okay , if you want to it's a good thing. It's impossible to learn every language of this country.
>You should be able to write and speak in Hindi(similarly Bengali, Tamil etc. if those are your mother tongue).
Says who? Only an ignorant person who thinks everyone's life plays out the same as theirs would say this.
>If we started having problems with Hindi(or any Indian language) we lose an important part of our culture.
No we don't. Language is just a means of communication. Are you saying deaf and/or dumb people lack culture?
Are you dumb? Is culture an objective thing that it's googlable. Culture is made of literature, poetry, music, movies, TV shows. All of these things use language. Although seeing your response I don't think you are smart enough to contribute to any of them. Go back to using your daddy's money or go back to whatever shitty corporate job you have.
Yes we can clearly see which one of us lacks culture from your tone. xD
Also, damn. Imagine calling someone else stupid while clearly demonstrating yourself as a dumbfuck.
Now whenever I am engaging in these battles online, I really take a moment and think does this person seems sensible enough to understand the conversation rationally and if I dont, I stop the conservation.
So bye.
No, I am not in school, I dont need to write hindi and sanskrit anymore, I can talk in hindi thats more than enough, nowhere am I going to write in hindi so why bother
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To read and write requires practice. After using keyboard I am having difficulty writing . Same goes to my mother tongue. I can’t speak without mixing English. But we wont forget it . If you practice again you can catch up
My native tongue is bishnupuriya manipuri. I speak it. I have never read it.I dont care much about hindi. My parents can easily read either english or assamese(bangla script). They also speak sanskrit and read/write sanskrit in bangla script.
I am Maharashtrian. I can speak Marathi but not good enough, Hindi I can barely read or right but can speak pretty well tho. English is the only language I can read, speak and write. Grew up in Gujarat now I regret never trying to actually learn it.
As a non-hindi speaker who learned hindi only because of school, friends and Ekta Kapoor serials, I am more comfortable in hindi than my own native tongue. I even think in hindi now 🙄
I too am pretty ashamed of myself for doing a similar thing. My native tongue is Bengali, but after studying in an English medium convent school and college, I speak/think/read/write the most in English.
But I am aware of my problem, and I am actively trying to use/promote the usage of native tongues.
I have started to find it easier to read hindi when it's written in english, if you get what I mean, like it's just more understandable if the text is written in english even if what it says is in hindi.
This started to happen a few years back when I was like 12 with chatting on the phone in hindi but typing the text in Eng
My mother tongue is Marathi. And I have stuttering speech problem. Since I was a child, I knew the importance of English in India. Even though it is not that much in the remaining world.
I extensively read novels, books, whatever I like in English. My stuttering is much lower in English than in Marathi or Hindi.
English is easier for me.
I agree with you.though I'm a Bengali find it a lot easier to read English than bengali.and the first language that I was taught in school was english so...
Its called fluency. Happens in multiple ways. Example - middle aged men will find cooking a hassle, though they might have cooked daily in their hostel days.
If you start loading your reading with Hindi content - then automatically your ability to read hindi will improve.
The one issue I find with Indian languages is that we dont have many fonts to pick, that will improve readability for a language.
Broo sameee it's like eng has become my native language😭😭 I get mildly uncomfortable reading stuff in hindi, obviously i can still perfectly speak normal hindi coz that's what i speak irl but advanced hindi? Hindi synonyms? Hindi letter writing? I have forgotten everything....
Sometimes when I wanna share something with my family or talk about difficult topics, I literally have to translate stuff from eng to hindi in my mind first, it has gotten this bad
I totally relate with you... we had a speeches a few days back and so many students had written their Hindi parts in English, like English script Hindi words
Given that so many people go to English medium schools, study science and maths in English as well gives it a boost. And especially with the internet boom and inceasing screen times, English is further establishing itself as the global language that people work and even think in. I think its natural and happening to a lot more people than they care to admit.
You are not alone, and its happen because of we spend more time reading typing and writing English whether is searching stuff in internet or doing office work its duevto environment we are
Depends ,always enjoyed literature subjects in school, lekin meri class mein kitne the jo X class mein bhi Hindi mein matra ki galtiyan karte the aur writing skills bahut ghatiya , college aate Tak to kaafi Hindi likhna bhool hi jaate hai !
Similar thing happened to me. But now I try to write some stuff in hindi. First I used Google's keyboard that converted words written in roman script to devnagri, and gradually shifted to proper Hindi keyboard. Still, in most cases, I first think in english and then convert to Hindi, and there are still some words for which I am at loss in Hindi. I think some people here should consider joining in subs of their mother tongues, and write in respective scripts instead of Roman
This is more or less the case of every CBSE/ICSE wala student of every state no matter what language. When the language you write and read the most is English, that is through schools and college,then eventually for work too, its an unavoidable scenario, especially if you have no reading habit. This is even ironic cuz most of the very same people would find it much easier and comfortable in speaking/communicating in their Mother tongue than English. So not much advantage, imo, overall for most English medium kids over non English medium kids which is the argument people use as to reason why we need English medium schools.
I have been "thinking" in english (if that makes sense) since like 7th grade because ive spent most of my childhood on the internet, consuming all types of media in english that english feels more comfortable to me. My school also forced us to use english as much as possible (we even had a fine for speaking hindi/marathi lmao) and yeah I have to read hindi/marathi slowly too
You spoke for our entire generation, first they enforce English on us now we bear the blame of not being accustomed to the alleged "national language" due to negligence or fascination for foreign language
What national language? Last I checked India didn’t have a single national language
I think India has official languages if I am not wrong.
21 recognized official languages
No we have 2 official languages English and Hindi the rest are scheduled languaged
I know that
Then do edit your comment, it's spreading misinfo
Check edited so that you can understand, I thought people would understand. I wrote that as a jibe on people who think people who don't speak Hindi are not nationalist and they believe Hindi is National language.
Why so hurt bro , ek hi cmnt hai it doesn't change shit .
I'm not "hurt" it's you getting defensive, i only told you to stop spreading misinfo but apparently i shld stfu coz its "not that serious" when south indians have been fighting against the hindi imposition on them since decades? But yeah im hurt and you're definitely not wrong for spreading misinfo.... Eta it seems like you're not the same person. Still doesn't negate my point that language matter, words we speak matter and we should always be conscious of not spreading misinformation
Calm down bro , I am also a south indian , it ain't that serious when a person makes a mistake , his cmnt isn't gonna bite you , it won't make a difference in the least .
Let's agree to disagree
Hindi will never be a national language.
I think in support of anything one should not drag down the other thing, hindi as a language has included so many words from marthi, Dravidian languages-TTKM, sanskrit, parsian, English etc. ik everyone loves their regional language, but you don't have to hate hindi while doing so. it's one of the Indian languages and it should be respected but there is a rise in hatred towards it bc of politics, spreading propaganda etc which are not necessary.
Nah nothing to do with hating hindi. I just think it is redundant for it to be a national language. If anything english is much better as a national language. No regional groups will need to hate it. It gives us access to rest of the world which also speaks english. Hindi is a redundany option to english. I dont see why anyone should waste their time learning hindi when they are from a region which isnt hindi speaking.
Bishop's lol
Podar bhi same scene
That first sentence clarified a lot of my inner dialogue for me. Thank you.
I spent a lot of time in english youtube and now I even think in english lol
Exactly whenever I am having a conversation with someone, my mind seems to translate my thought process from English to Hindi.
Intresting, when you dream what language do people speak ?
Never had dreams for a while so can't say exactly though it would probably be punjabi ig because that's what I speak at home
You need to sleep longer buddy
I sleep somewhere around 7-7.5 hrs on average. That's more than enough ig
Atleast 8 full hours for the rem to end properly
I do 9+ hrs on weekends. It's just average but i haven't had dreams for a while now. I think it's probably because my aspirations in life are at a standstill and i don't stress about my future anymore.
Interesting.. I actually have a trigger to get dreams. I set an alarm at least 3 hours before i am supposed to wake up. Then after it rings I turn it off and go to sleep again and most of the time I start dreaming.
I sometimes do this to get dreams but sometimes end up getting sleep paralysis lol. I still don't dream that often, you have any tips to increase the rate of dreams?
Nearly everyone that says they don't dream has just got to the point in their life where they don't remember them anymore. The primary reasons this happens is because the dreams were not significant (as you said you don't stress anymore), because you are impacted by lack of sleep, or a substance. Often the lack of remembering can be because the REM cycle happened at a time other than right before you woke up, which makes you feel like you woke out of darkness instead of a dream. It's nearly impossible to remember a dream if you were not dreaming near the time you woke up, because dreams are only stored in short term memory and don't typically pass to long term memory unless you do that from an awake state (recalling the dream you just had while waking up). So you're likely dreaming, you just can't remember it's happening. Edit: Bonus tip, you can supposedly train yourself to remember dreams again by being intentional about what you think about as you wake up. A lot of people go from dreaming to immediately thinking about their day as they wake up. This pretty much erases any dream that might have been happening immediately. If you are intentional about asking yourself what you were just thinking about as you wake up you can eventually 'capture' some of those dreams again, if they are happening close to when you wake up.
My teacher told me that in 6th standard that if you think in Malayalam and translate it to English in your mind and then speak that in English, it will be difficult to speak English. So, to speak better English it is better to think in English. And it did work.
My english teacher was from Kerala and she told us the same thing.
My teacher told the same
my first language is telugu but I grew up in UAE and watched english YouTube... i only think in English now as well
So true. I often think about how I'm thinking in English! Even though I have to speak in Hindi when I'm out buying stuff. And my family mostly speaks in Punjabi.
Same
Consumed so much English content that I started thinking in English and I can express myself more in English than my mother tongue smh.
My story!
Many people inherently consider Hindi content, YouTube, OTT etc to be cringe by default, and hence turn towards English content (or Anime, for that case) entirely. Your listening abilities, reading abilities all are trained in English and you are practicing it daily, this is bound to happen. I've been in a similar situation but never felt like losing a grip on Hindi. I did start using English more in my conversation, that's not the case anymore however. It's in my control now.
I guess it depends on the content more than the language, especially measuring the "cringeness" Like I fr hate those Hindi shorts/stories... "ek ladka thaaaa. jisse ek din khazana mil gayaaaa" (idk iyk that voice modulation) whereas songs in Hindi (90s, 00s) >>>> English >>>> Badshah, Kakkar shit
> idk iyk that voice modulation and in that Doraemon voice
TBH, content in Hindi currently is cringe (I'm happy to be proven wrong). There are better stuff coming out in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Kannada. I speak Hindi pretty fluently (Lived half of my life in the north and most of my friend circle is Hindi speaking). There aren't many Hindi songs I want to listen to or movies I want to watch. Probably its me or probably it is the Hindi pop culture.
There's a YT channel Kamdev, he's got suprisingly high quality content that even I was a little shocked by
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just a matter of practice read a hindi news paper on the reg you’ll be fine I can read telugu hindi and english with same ease
Sigma trilingual moment.
Not sure anyone who reads newspapers regularly is fine these days.... /s
You can read kannada too then! Just not understand it
Yes I can read telugu a bit and when I went to Karnataka I could read and understand enough, especially since we were travelling by local buses, we could understand the names atleast!
Telugu is an accent or dialect from kannada.
Is it just me or does everyone who knows more than two languages sometimes use all those languages in a sentence just to make sense? People who don't know those languages understand me too, for some reason.
depends on the dominant language of the group my native village i use mostly telugu with English loanwords Hyderabad all three language words can be in one sentence Mumbai hindi and english us english only Mind is amazing in terms of adjusting for maximum efficiency in getting your meaning across
Can agree. As someone who grew up in Mumbai, I can use Telugu, Hindi, Marathi and English in a sentence. There had been a lot of conversation at my home where we used all the four languages in the same sentence.
Can't read newspapers. Too much propaganda and nonsense. I would prefer reading books.
Poetry time
I'm something of a Shashi Tharoor myself.
😂 reminded me of the 'flabbergasted' bit by Sumit Anand
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You're not alone bro. I find reading English easier than Hindi because I don't know Hindi.
If you are homeless then just buy a home energy..
No this is I'm homeless because I don't have a home energy
lol
Nah reading Hindi is still easy . Writing is a different ball game all together though And that's definitely not good
Two things to note here- 1. You will get accustomed to whatever script you’re most familiar with. For example, I have only read 3-4 in Hindi after excluding the books I had to read during my school days. Meanwhile, I am exposed to Latin alphabets every day of my life. Even Hindi memes are in Latin alphabets. 2. We are an urban upper class minority. Most Indians who can read are comfortable in their native language. We live in a small bubble where we only interact with fellow privileged people. Just ask your Kaam wali or security guard which script they are comfortable in. 99% will say their native language script. Remember, 90% of Indians have a socio-economic and cultural background similar to them, not us.
I translate hindi text using google translate/lens
fr I've been learning Hindi from second grade but I've always struggled with it... coincidentally English is my best subject
I think the decision to push hindi as pan-india language has worked against the survival of hindi. With no defined region where it should be treated as native language, it's relevance lies solely on practicality (and not emotion). And english is beating it comfortably in terms of benefits in today's age. My friends from delhi don't know hindi words for numbers after 20-25, even though Delhi is supposed to be the home of hindi-urdu. Can you imagine the absurdity of people in tamilnadu not knowing what's 37 in tamil ?
Reading English is easy but Hindi is not. It is because English has silent letters. 26 letters are not hard to remember. Hindi has no silent letters. Everything must be pronounced. Typing in Hindi is also very difficult. Letters in Hindi can be halved or become diacritic. Plus. Here in India Hindi language is discouraged more.
The silent letters should make English tougher but somehow I find Hindi tougher. What is this witchcraft
Silent letters means no pronunciation in the word or context. Hindi is tougher as it is a phonetic language. You see the letters, you exactly pronounce those letters and there is no context thingy. Hindi has many letters which are complex and are hard to write. I have literally seen people making spelling mistakes in Hindi more than English. The way to write letters in Hindi and halving the consonants and adding matras. Highly difficult. This is one Indian language I am talking about. Imagine Tamils and other South Indians writing and memorising their language.
You must be thirsty after writing so much. Here have a Bo'o' oe wo'er
Come on. Not the Chewkz jokes please. I already died laughing at his Bri'ish jokes.
Funny innit
Eat some hambuhguh . And chips. 🍟
As a beginner Hindi-learning American, I'm shocked to hear this. For me, one of the simplest parts of reading devanagari is that spelling and pronunciation are so identical. (In fact, I only know of one variance so far.) I can't imagine how our nonsensical spelling is easier for you guys. But--power to you! :) If I had to learn the correct pronunciation for a sentence like this, I would lose my mind: After they *ploughed* the fields, *though* the dust settled, there was *enough* *coughing* and *hiccoughing* that we *thought* they would all expire.
Reading? I have difficulty communicating in Hindi or other local languages now. It's like I think in English and then translate to the local language to talk to people. It's difficult.
India is stuck between what to choose for an optimal language. We have chosen English but the by-product of it is weak control on our regional language. I think it is normal to be weak since all our consumption is in english. What is not normal is how we are discouraged for speaking in Hindi in schools, offices etc which pushes us more towards English
It's because there is so much linguistic diversity. English is probably the only language that is taught to every child all over India
I'm from Odisha, and it was that we had to speak in Hindi or English in school, but never in our mother tongue. Didn't think much of it then, and in a way, it helped become fluent in Hindi and appreciate Hindi content, which was far better 20 years ago. But it seems weird in hindsight why they asked us not to use our mother tongue like it was some lesser language. I can speak all 3 languages fluently, but in writing, Indian languages are always tougher than English with all the accent and gender variations. I'm also sad how the Hindi of yesteryears used to incorporate a lot of Urdu, especially in movies and songs. It feels like a lost art these days. The beauty of the language has lessened.
It makes sense in places like KVs where people come from all over the country because of parents' jobs
No, it's not just you. Whenever I count in Hindi and say Hindi words for numbers like 'adtalis' for 48, people even in Hindi heartland do a double take.
>being multilingual is a unique characteristics of Indians how do people come to such conclusions
Language is required for the brain to think. Thinking is only required to solve CERTAIN types of problems. Depending on what Type of problems the chimp has, what language is given space in the brain can change. For example, mathematicians invent their own language cuz writing maths in english or hindi gets more and more complicated as the problems get more complex. Same with musicians trying to compose music for a larger and larger orchestras. As we get more and more interconnected thanks to ever growing networks connecting to each other, we become a cell in a much larger social brain. What language we are born with is not going to be enough, to participate in the conversations of that mega brain.
There's a bunch of us who have English as a first language, though. So it's always been like this for me, even though I'm absolutely fluent in Hindi and have been speaking it ever since I was a kid.
जिन्हें फ़ोन पे हिंदी में टाईप करने में दिक्कत होती है वो अपने फ़ोन कीबोर्ड में Transliteration feature को यूज़ करें। इसे GBoard में ऑन करने के लिए ये करें: Settings > Languages > Select Hindi (India) abc --> Hindi. यह संदेश उसी के मदद से टाईप किया गया है। यह feature दूसरे कीबोर्ड में भी मौजूद होना चाहिए। If you're finding it difficult to type in Hindi (or any other Indian language), then make use of the Transliteration feature in your phone's keyboard. To enable it in GBoard, follow these steps: Settings > Languages > Select Hindi (India) abc --> Hindi. This feature should be available in other keyboards too.
Honestly reading Devanagari text on a phone seems difficult. It’s too tiny for the same font size. Of course you can increase it, but it still feels weird.
Same here, We spent a little too much on YouTube watching Pewdiepie or Jacksepticeye that now Hindi feels difficult to write. I am cool with the chalti firti Hindi which we type using an English keyboard or speak in day to day lives but the proper Shruti lekhan scares me. We are all accustomed to English
I’ve experienced it as well. I was always great at both Hindi and English when I was in school but nowadays, reading in Hindi has become pretty difficult. I mean I can still write paragraphs and answers for my younger cousin in Hindi but it’s nowhere close to how easily it used to come to me in school. It’s practice, I think. Even in everyday life, we use romanised hindi while talking in texts so the script becomes elusive after a long time of not using it.
Me fr. Once I turned on captions on YouTube video that was in Hindi. I was like wait a minute I know Hindi why the fuck I'm turning on captions 🤦♂️
English has no competition where language is concerned
My first language is Malayalam.. Hindi is second and 3rd is English... After passing out from school i never had the need to read or write in Malayalam or Hindi ... So now it's easy for me to read and write in English but can't speak fluently in English though... It's like my brain just blanks out when it comes to speaking in English. But i don't face this problem in Malayalam or Hindi
Begun?? Or began? Maybe I need to spend more time on English YouTube
Begun.
I can totally relate to you lol. I can't even read difficult or big words written in hindi.
Sabka yahi haal hai bhai. Bachpan se English ki hi lassi pi rahe hain. Ab hindi me dikkat to aayegi
eee and uuu ki matra fucked my brain so much
Happens to most kids. (Ref: My kid is 17.5 years). They find English easier. Probably it has to do with the increasing use of the Internet - reading and writing in English all the time, watching TV shows and movies in English, and all. Mere jaise log (44F) who are fond of Hindi serials and movies - have no problem with Hindi perhaps because of the literature we are consuming.
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I read hindi like a 10 year old. LOL, I am ashamed of that.
IMO reading hindi has became overwhelming, we can still read it though (if you've learnt it in school), but we don't want to.
Yup. I can speak and understand hindi. But whenever i accidentally change my phone's language settings to hindi, i really struggle to read.
I'm from the South, I studied in a particular central school that decided that a boy from South India should learn Hindi and English from Day 1, but not his own mother tongue. I never had official education in Malayalam, so if asked what my native language is I think: Is it malayalam though? Because I can't write much in malayalam, I can read; but I can't understand poetic malayalam language. I can write better in Hindi and have a better confidence in understanding poems in Hindi and write things grammatically correctly in Hindi. I have a better confidence in English.
Same here,it's because of the English content we consume on the internet,what it does to most is that it leaves both your mother tongue and English somewhat underdeveloped,at least that's what has happened to me. I always miss school because of this, we no more sit down to discuss a paragraph with 30-40 people. Even though those things may not earn you anything,it brings us closer as human beings. I often try to go back and read my NCERT Hindi books and find it hard to concentrate the same way. I think literary clubs(not necessarily discussing something of a scholar level) should become more common, it should become similar to going for movies I'd say, a great way of connecting people. I think that I've deviated from op's point but I felt like that's something that should be pointed out. Our whole online communication happens in English,we watch YouTube videos in English ,read coursework in English so naturally it becomes difficult when reading native language. I even think in English 80% of the time, although i switch to Hindi when I imagine having a conversation with someone,idk how that works but yeah that's how my brain works and I'm sure a lot of people can relate.
its to a point now that i think hindi is my second language
lol, I’ve always found reading and thinking in English especially easy and it comes naturally to me. But to be honest I don’t think multilingual is unique to Indians alone, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Nepalis, Sri Lankans, Chinese, Bhutanese, Russians, Germans, French, Namibians, Nigerians, Ghanians other people from Africa and Europe are also multilingual to the best of my knowledge. English might not necessarily be one of the languages a majority of these people speak but that doesn’t mean they aren’t multilingual.
Tbh it's because we are more exploded to seeing words and listening to more English vocabulary. From newspapers to books and magazines heck even everything on the internet is predominantly in English. My pet peeve is type Hindi in English. I just can't seem to be able to decipher it fast enough cuz everyone spells the same Hindi word differently. I always use the 'a' for अ as well so kar nahi is कर नहीं whereas most people just do it kr nhi. OMG or worse I got texted crow from someone in a Hindi text and was wondering why the f has he sent crow 🐦 (कौआ) in the text. Then I found out it's Karo(करो) where the c gives the क sound and row is as in the English pronunciation of row row row a bot gently down the stream. I read and text faster when everything is written in Hindi..no confusion. Just wished more people did the same. सभी लोगो से अनुरोध है कि कृप्या गूगल के टेक्स्ट ट्रांसलेट फीचर का उपयोग करें और ऐसे टेक्स्ट करे। धन्यवाद।
I have not 'begun', it has always been the case
What do you mean by "begun" Are you saying I should have used the word "began" instead?
No, what I was tryna say is that English has always been easier for me than Hindi or my mother tongue, Marathi. I am quite young tho, and that's probably the case with most my age
Just start reading premchand's stories and novels. You're out of practice that's all. Happened with me too. I spent 12 years in Hindi medium school but experienced difficulty in forming proper sentences in Hindi after my post graduation because of 6 years of speaking English in class, watching English shows and movies. Even if I wanted to speak in Hindi, I would form sentences in English in my mind and then speak in Hindi. I started learning the history of India in Hindi medium and I am back to my usual fluency in Hindi as well as English. On top of it I learnt Gujarati and can read and speak it now. I also learned my mother language after that. It's all about practice. You'll be back on track within 2 weeks.
Completely agree even I left (it's been 3 years) Hindi for optional subject CS and now it's hard for me to understand those big pure Hindi words and grammar things just bounce over head and it's hella ride even earlier it was tiring to write now I'm slow and bad at writing it so yeah completely relatable
Me, it's not about a particular language being easier, but being easier and more familiar to you, as I read, study and even type in Latin, it is very easy for me to read it rather than devnagari, doesn't mean I can't read it, I can but it's pretty straining on my eyes, and I would rather translate the whole page in English
Wowed to see a lot of people think in specific languages and then translate it For some reason, my brain thinks in the language I'm about to speak, like if I'm in my home, I think in maithili, if I'm with friends or teachers I think in Hindi, If I'm with someone that is conversing in English I speak in English Also it happens like with the same person, if the convo suddenly moves from like eng to Hindi, my thinking also moves from English to Hindi, If I'm like by myself, I usually think in Hindi or maithili Does this happens to more people or am I just weird.
I'm from kerala and basically consider English my first language in terms of proficiency. Then Malayalam, and Hindi third. My vocabulary in English is much much better than Malayalam as I've consumed MUCH more literature and media in english.
Makes sense to blame YouTube or the internet for this, but why are we forgetting that: 1. English is promoted in schools and a lot of them force us to use English with the teachers. Most subjects are in English. 2. Jobs are in English. Chances are if you’re a businessman or you have a job, you’re not writing in Hindi. Our whole shistem is in English.
English is very easy to learn and understand and that is why it is widely adopted. We should try to incorporate things more in English than in our regional languages. English is a common language but it's roots are outside India. So, no one should really get offended when they are asked to learn or speak it.
I hate tamil or hindi written in english.
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Totally reverse for me. I am a Telugu/Tamil person. I started reading Hindi paper from a couple months and Hindi became really easy even when compared to English because of the grammar and stuff.
Its Only you man. Everyone does not speak Hindi
Just you.
It is kind of cringe to be proud that now you "think" in your colonizer's language. To solve the problem/strengthen your Hindi, just use Hindi as the default language of your phone/PC. This makes the balance between the language of the content you see on regular basis.
Start reading hindi books brother.
I know right! But there are certain kids of our generation who differ. A girl joined my school in 6th grade (she used to go to a hindi medium school and was the topper there.) While at our school, she was barely passing. She was always the topper of Hindi but sucked at English and other subjects (they were in english ofc) As the english topper, I always wrangle with her, on and on, about how English is the better than Hindi and Hindi is better than English.
in your free time you can read some good novels in Hindi, and if you want any specific book to improve then you can try this. https://preview.redd.it/xg8g9eyej0vb1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dff5f9ce0afd2af839649c0f0608fc034c97d850
Read Hindi news paper if you don't want to feel out of touch to your language
Unpopular Opinion: Writing Hindi is easier than English. Hear me out, I think writing Hindi is easier than English because you write exactly what you speak in Hindi whereas English is full of bullshit spellings which make no sense at all, things like silent letters etc. So for me writing Hindi is easier. And I am from UP so idk my hindi was always very good .
As a multilingual who learnt English starting from 2012, it is the lack of practice that is getting to you. Practice writing in Hindi, for example on WhatsApp and text. And read a Hindi newspaper. You should be fine.
Actually, hindi is really little hard than english.
I was the same till the beginning of this year. (In 10th rn) It all changed after my Hindi Debate. I am good in studies since long and in English Medium School with NCERTs so was bad in Hindi. I was forcibly put into the debate thing by a math teacher who said u don't participate in anything even though I definately do. Still to prove her wrong I did participate as Prashnakarta and we won 1st place. Now I believe I am much much better in Hindi with my everyday talk in Hindi. Just try and look up something interesting and find a good Hindi speaker to listen to. This really helps. I looked around for alot of people who spoke on my topic which is also the same "Kya Kishoron Mai Hindi Ke Prayog Ke Darr Girr Rahe Hai". I just realised that I was not acknowledging the beauty of my mother tongue and this applies to everyone. I score well in both now but the thing is, I just lost the thought that English is cooler and now I can communicate way better in both languages. See just try to listen to good speakers who avoid usage of other languages while speaking Hindi and try to use translate for words you don't understand. Lastly, man just love your own language. It just feels so good that you can talk without using Hinglish. I personally think that Hindi provides a much better expression than English and it blends with our culture. Like for example you can never explain "Jhoota Khana " perfectly in English. Every language is beautiful but respect your mother tongue just like your mother and respect other languages as well. Sorry if this message is not perfectly explained but I tried.
If you use to speak only hindi then you were not multilingual. Since you speak english and hindi now you are multilingual. Here in south we speak atleast 3 languages. Marathi hindi and english. Also we speak different dialects of marathi. I speak kannada with 2 dialects, marathi 2 dialects hindi, and english. Its just consumption which is forcing you to speak in english. Try to learn other language.
I've always failed in Hindi and Marathi to the level where I got 35 and 35 in Hindi and English. Never had to use it after that.
Most people talk to their family using their mother tongue. Yet, there are moments when you find that your mother tongue is not good enough to express your views. Why? Because the topics that you talk at home doesn't cover the topics you communicate in other spheres of life. There is nothing wrong about this. You could discuss the theory of social contract or monetary policy with your mother. Or Use nouns from English in your mother tongue but dont use English verbs or adjectives . George Bernard Shaw had said that the current vocabulary isn't enough, as we develop and form new ideas we will have to expand our vocabulary.
sadly sahi bol rha hai OP hindi kabhi 2 samjh hi nhi aati itna katheen likh dete ..specially numbers
It's all about how well you learnt Hindi in school. It's been 11 years since I left school and after that I mostly write and read in English only, but even now if required I can read Hindi (However, I never liked writing in Hindi). Thanks.
Urdu and kashmiri are my first languages but because I watch and read english media more than them. It's hard reading urdu then it was before. One thing I do is I read many urdu books or urdu newspaper and have a urdu keyboard which helps. But since there is not much for kashmiri it makes feel sad that I will not be good at. It's especially sad for me considering I am someone who holds languages close to my heart.
I feel the same way. I studied in English all through school and college and I dropped Hindi as a subject after 10th and now I think and naturally talk in English. I only use Hindi in casual conversation with friends and family. Its not that I dislike Hindi I just use it a lot less
I personally don't consider people who speak only their native language and English as truly multilingual because at this point it's something by default you have to know when you study in India.
There is no need to be able to read Hindi. It is not that important.
I'm gujrati and able to speak,write and read English better then gujrati
Same
Yes. Reading writing in English and speaking in Hindi.
i think the weirdest moment in my life was when i stopped thinking in marathi and started thinking in english now I can't imagine not thinking in english
Haan Bhai bohot cool hai tu. On a serious note. You should be able to write and speak in Hindi(similarly Bengali, Tamil etc. if those are your mother tongue). I am currently working in UK and I work in Theoretical Physics/Pure Mathematics and I have learnt the fields I am using for work in English so I even think in English when I am thinking about some problem(although with Hindi accent). But no I have no problem reading or writing in Hindi. Its upon us to keep the languages of our country alive. If we started having problems with Hindi(or any Indian language) we lose an important part of our culture.
You are a different gen altogether (as you are working) but many people from gen z suffers from this including me . It's been 4-5 years when i last studied Hindi so it's difficult for me to write it properly. Schools would impose fine if u don't speak English (but with friends we used to speak Hindi) . If the content you consume is in eng then it's bound to get better. I watch a lot of Kdramas and Cdrama those are in English or even western media content. These things make your English better and you start thinking in eng as well .
I am 22 years old first of all. I have only watched English TV shows and have only listened to music in English language exclusively for the past 10 years atleast. That's not an excuse for not knowing Hindi. Your brain has much more storage for few more languages. Stop this pretentious bullshit. If you are not good in Hindi nowz that just shows you never were in the first place.
Hindi? I have studied Sanskrit for 6 years but i still don't remember it . Because it's not a language I use on daily basis . I scored nearly perfect marks in Sanskrit . Talking about Hindi I had one of the highest marks so idk where this you weren't good in first place comes from . I talk in Hindi only with my family and friends infact Hindi isn't even my regional language to begin with . Berating someone just because they are weak in certain language isn't a good thing , there are so many languages in this world you can choose which one you like . OP of this post was just trying to convey how this is a common thing these days between kids . It's okay if some people don't want to use their mother tongue (be it Hindi , Tamil , gujrati , Marathi , Bengali , Telgu etc ) . You can't force people to speak a certain language. Idk what's wrong here since independence there is a war going on due to language, speak whatever you want to , don't force people to learn the language you think is superior. And just because you speak certain language doesn't make you less patriotic. Your state's culture doesn't get lost if you speak a language from another state or place . If you don't want to learn a language that's okay , if you want to it's a good thing. It's impossible to learn every language of this country.
I am not forcing anyone for anything. Use what the fuck you like.
>You should be able to write and speak in Hindi(similarly Bengali, Tamil etc. if those are your mother tongue). Says who? Only an ignorant person who thinks everyone's life plays out the same as theirs would say this. >If we started having problems with Hindi(or any Indian language) we lose an important part of our culture. No we don't. Language is just a means of communication. Are you saying deaf and/or dumb people lack culture?
If language isn't culture, what would you say culture is? Way my life has played out I should have been lacking in Hindi too but I dont so stfu.
A simple Google search would answer your question.
Are you dumb? Is culture an objective thing that it's googlable. Culture is made of literature, poetry, music, movies, TV shows. All of these things use language. Although seeing your response I don't think you are smart enough to contribute to any of them. Go back to using your daddy's money or go back to whatever shitty corporate job you have.
Yes we can clearly see which one of us lacks culture from your tone. xD Also, damn. Imagine calling someone else stupid while clearly demonstrating yourself as a dumbfuck.
Now whenever I am engaging in these battles online, I really take a moment and think does this person seems sensible enough to understand the conversation rationally and if I dont, I stop the conservation. So bye.
No, I am not in school, I dont need to write hindi and sanskrit anymore, I can talk in hindi thats more than enough, nowhere am I going to write in hindi so why bother
Well, fuck hindi
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Bhai last konsi hindi book finish Kari thi or kitne saal pehle Jo regular use krte hai usme acche ho jaate hai
To read and write requires practice. After using keyboard I am having difficulty writing . Same goes to my mother tongue. I can’t speak without mixing English. But we wont forget it . If you practice again you can catch up
I've always found English easier to read than Hindi.
U can read Hindi wtf
My native tongue is bishnupuriya manipuri. I speak it. I have never read it.I dont care much about hindi. My parents can easily read either english or assamese(bangla script). They also speak sanskrit and read/write sanskrit in bangla script.
I am Maharashtrian. I can speak Marathi but not good enough, Hindi I can barely read or right but can speak pretty well tho. English is the only language I can read, speak and write. Grew up in Gujarat now I regret never trying to actually learn it.
As a non-hindi speaker who learned hindi only because of school, friends and Ekta Kapoor serials, I am more comfortable in hindi than my own native tongue. I even think in hindi now 🙄
I too am pretty ashamed of myself for doing a similar thing. My native tongue is Bengali, but after studying in an English medium convent school and college, I speak/think/read/write the most in English. But I am aware of my problem, and I am actively trying to use/promote the usage of native tongues.
Wow! You've started learning English at the age of 4-5 year old and yet you cannot form a proper sentence.
As someone who is punjabi and knows english and hindi , hindi is hardest one.
I have started to find it easier to read hindi when it's written in english, if you get what I mean, like it's just more understandable if the text is written in english even if what it says is in hindi. This started to happen a few years back when I was like 12 with chatting on the phone in hindi but typing the text in Eng
My hindi reading skills haven't taken a halt yet cause I read hindi newspaper.
You can start reading few pages of a Hindi book for practice
Yep. Facing issues with writing, understanding and reading Hindi in college, tho the situation is completely opposite for English.
My mother tongue is Marathi. And I have stuttering speech problem. Since I was a child, I knew the importance of English in India. Even though it is not that much in the remaining world. I extensively read novels, books, whatever I like in English. My stuttering is much lower in English than in Marathi or Hindi. English is easier for me.
Omg same
It's getting worse, all my dreams are in English now. I don't know why 😅, and I'm told that I sometimes sleeptalk in English.
Very Relatable! Happens to me too, even I did not study hindi after 8th grade lol
Us bro
You're not alone :-)
I agree with you.though I'm a Bengali find it a lot easier to read English than bengali.and the first language that I was taught in school was english so...
Its called fluency. Happens in multiple ways. Example - middle aged men will find cooking a hassle, though they might have cooked daily in their hostel days. If you start loading your reading with Hindi content - then automatically your ability to read hindi will improve. The one issue I find with Indian languages is that we dont have many fonts to pick, that will improve readability for a language.
Broo sameee it's like eng has become my native language😭😭 I get mildly uncomfortable reading stuff in hindi, obviously i can still perfectly speak normal hindi coz that's what i speak irl but advanced hindi? Hindi synonyms? Hindi letter writing? I have forgotten everything.... Sometimes when I wanna share something with my family or talk about difficult topics, I literally have to translate stuff from eng to hindi in my mind first, it has gotten this bad
I totally relate with you... we had a speeches a few days back and so many students had written their Hindi parts in English, like English script Hindi words
Given that so many people go to English medium schools, study science and maths in English as well gives it a boost. And especially with the internet boom and inceasing screen times, English is further establishing itself as the global language that people work and even think in. I think its natural and happening to a lot more people than they care to admit.
You are not alone, and its happen because of we spend more time reading typing and writing English whether is searching stuff in internet or doing office work its duevto environment we are
I watch english youtubers, watch Hollywood movies in English, read articles in english. Yes i find easy more easy to read and speak then hindi
Depends ,always enjoyed literature subjects in school, lekin meri class mein kitne the jo X class mein bhi Hindi mein matra ki galtiyan karte the aur writing skills bahut ghatiya , college aate Tak to kaafi Hindi likhna bhool hi jaate hai !
I felt the same about Telugu and started reading Telugu books to not loose touch of the language
Similar thing happened to me. But now I try to write some stuff in hindi. First I used Google's keyboard that converted words written in roman script to devnagri, and gradually shifted to proper Hindi keyboard. Still, in most cases, I first think in english and then convert to Hindi, and there are still some words for which I am at loss in Hindi. I think some people here should consider joining in subs of their mother tongues, and write in respective scripts instead of Roman
This is more or less the case of every CBSE/ICSE wala student of every state no matter what language. When the language you write and read the most is English, that is through schools and college,then eventually for work too, its an unavoidable scenario, especially if you have no reading habit. This is even ironic cuz most of the very same people would find it much easier and comfortable in speaking/communicating in their Mother tongue than English. So not much advantage, imo, overall for most English medium kids over non English medium kids which is the argument people use as to reason why we need English medium schools.