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Posted: 16 years ago

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Originally posted by: qwww
I am not sure why people think Hindi is the first language in Indian schools. Deepika is from Bangalore and the good schools there have English as the first language - Hindi might have been her second or even third language in school . That would equate to just 4 or 5 hours a week so its not surprising that her hindi is weak.

Very true! A country where more than 2000 dialects are spoken, how can it be expected that everyone should speak and understand Hindi?

Hindi is an optional subject in most parts of Eastern, Western and Southern India...and whatever the kids learn in school is very, very basic.

If you go to Bangalore, you will find that most people converse in English rather than the state language of Kanndiga or Hindi! And unlike the other Mangalorean actress (Aishwarya), Deepika has lived in Bangalore all her life, so the chances of her speaking Hindi fluently would be less!

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Posted: 16 years ago

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I am a Punjabi.. lived in Punjab almost all my life (until a few years ago) and I can't speak Punjabi well at all. 😕

The focus in our school was always English..

With that said, I haven't really paid much attention to how Deepika speaks Hindi (if you want my honest answer😆).

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qwertyfied

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Posted: 16 years ago

#43

Originally posted by: qwww
I am not sure why people think Hindi is the first language in Indian schools. Deepika is from Bangalore and the good schools there have English as the first language - Hindi might have been her second or even third language in school . That would equate to just 4 or 5 hours a week so its not surprising that her hindi is weak since its not her mother tongue. generally in the south the use of Hindi is limited to Bollywood and television. I would actually say English is more widely used there than Hindi.

EXACTLYYY!!! we r first taught English, then in grade 4 onwards we start with our national language (Hindi) and then the state's language/second language (Marathi/Gujrati/Punjabi/Bengali/Southie one's..etc), unless, ofcourse, you go to Hindi medium school, which I highly doubt Prakash Padukone's daughter's would attend😕 And she went to a catholic school,I reckon, and those nun's/ sisters are usually very strict..we were supposed to converse in English all the time, or we would end up getting remarks(to be signed by our parents) in our school calendar. okay but seriously ppl hardly converse in Hindi(unless you are a northie..which clearly she isn't) Give the girl a break!!😃