Sonumb Kapoor: My first language is English (Loreal ad) - Page 29

thats why i respect irani's, Sikhs, Turk who i've seen all speak their language fluently with correct diction and no trace of a western accent they speak like they're from India back home or from which country their parents are from despite living in West, here its used as mark of shame if you dont know your language spoken by your parents and i agree with it. You should be bilingual and v good in both languiages

here's one thing i'd like to clarify to most people making this argument. keep in mind that, for a good part of recorded history of india, what we know as india today has been collection of kingdoms. occasionally a good majority (but not necessarily all) of these various kingdoms came under the wing of a greater empire somewhat consolidating them during their reign. some of the kingdoms in the very south of india were often not part of the greater exapansion of the big empires like mughal, or maurya, and also generally not subject to the same cultural invasions of the north. this has added to the cultural distinctness between the very south and the north. add to this the fact that all the regions (states, kingdoms, etc) of india did not come together under a bigger tent until the british empire. so despite the fact that we're all indians, we all have some cultural similarities, we also have differences, and for the south indians, when you choose another regional indian language as national language, they look at it as you're displacing their own cultural heritage and identity, which is their main contention.

now getting back to the whole point about sonam's claim - i'd say its clear that she's embarassed about claiming sindhi, punjabi or hindi as her first language. your first language is not the same as the language you're most proficient with. my first language is tamil - its wht i learned basic communication phrases in at home - things like mom, dad, food, house, i'm hungry, i'm sleepy, i'm hurt, etc. i didn't learn how to read or write in it, i didn't learn the letters in it - just the spoken language at home. i even learned some basic english words like apple, ice cream, cycle, scooter, balloon - that doesn't mean that english was my first language. i learned hindi and marathi from growing up in mumbai, VERY early on - before i even went to kindergarten. i learned my ABCs at home before kg and in school, all the way from kg. despite tamil being my first language i'm the least proficient in it - english is without a doubt my most proficient language, followed by hindi but i'd never claim either of these were my first language.

Originally posted by: AllBlacks1

First language and now national language and then world's business language.

India has 26 official languages. Nobody is forcing anybody to speak a particular language.

Most south Indians I know here in NZ know Hindi but refuse to speak or cant speak. In fact, Tamil, Telugu, Malyalam, Kannad ppl refuse to acknowledge others languages. Thats a height of false pride amongst themselves. They think North Indians r from Aryan athenicity.. which was a MAJOR humbug Brits thrown to India b4 even they left.

Yes, bharat varsh was spread from Afghanistan to all India today to Bangladesh to Thailand.

Then we know what happened. The mother of all Indian languages is SANSKRIT. It then had so many branches.. Devnagri is mother of Gujarati and Nepali.

The thing is all of North India speak, accept and take proud in Hindi being our National language. Even thou our Father of Nation is Mahatma Gandhi (Gujju), National anthem writer is Bengali (Ravindra Tagore), First PM of India was more English than Indian (motherfucher Nehru), The constitute maker was dalit (untochables).

North has accepted HIndi as National language but South is still wondering is it Tamil, Telugu, Kannad, Malayalam.. or ENGLISH?

Now can u see the hypocrisy? HIndi nahi manjoor, English thik hai.

They know Hindi well, but refuse to accept it. I know so many Southies here in Auckland. Thier English accents r so heavily influenced by their native language... the Appu character in The Simpsons series was created. North Indians dont speak English like that.

I dont what pride wud hurt Southies to accept Hindi as national language than English? I wud never know. They never took brunt of participation mass murders..

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On the topic, My son's first langauge is English.. coz his tongue couldnt get Gujarati... English is easy on tongue. His 2nd language will be Gujarati. 😃

Originally posted by: KhatamKahani

It's clear what you said. Why would I need to make my own National Anthem even if Hindi means no shit to me? It's not in Hindi. Anyway you can now attempt to give some explanation. 😆 I am off. Peace.

Originally posted by: blue-ice

Just out of curiosity...do u dislike only speaking in Hindi...or do u dislike listening to Hindi too??

I am asking because I am looking at ur siggy ...and it appears to be from a Hindi serial...and since u visit BW forums...which is mainly for Hindi movies...I am GUESSING u watch Hindi movies too...and ur user name is a Hindi/Urdu mix too...

bol na halke halke😆

Originally posted by: mahatma123

bol na halke halke😆

Originally posted by: wetdream

i never understood y south indians have problem accepting hindi as national language? whenever i go for debate on forums they say they hate hindi n their most common attack is north indians r not true indians🤪

I am not from south still :

1. First of all why anyone should accept any language imposed on them as national language which is no way related to their own native language and that too they represent population of half of india.

2. When professional life , business everything require mostly English then what is wrong if we have two official language and leave people themselves to decide.

3. Do you support lets say make Tamil as national language. Learn your mother tongue, learn Tamil as national language and learn English for professional life.

4. Infact its other way around. Just like in this thread we can witness whoever said they are not in favour of Hindi as national language , they taged as hindi hater, question them why watch bollywood, even question their nationality as if the jagir of nationality first hawk is of few so called representative of advocate of any national language , as if bollywood says only hindi speaker should watch a movie .

5. important question is why so much worry for national language when in india there were only 75% literate which is way below world average. Even 25% cant read or write a singe language and u want to impose people with multilingual. First make 100% literate than try to advocate for two three languages 🤪

Originally posted by: wetdream

so ur point? hindi is not my native language n no1 speak it in my place still we dont feel like some1 is forcing it is on us! n 😛 n y u get personal always debate without attacks 🥱 n we didnt make a big issue like tamils over hindi😆

Tell me a single instance where i got personal and did attack . Yes there is a reason why u dont have problem in hindi compare to south, just a simple question what is your native language.

Originally posted by: blue-ice

Just out of curiosity...do u dislike only speaking in Hindi...or do u dislike listening to Hindi too??

I am asking because I am looking at ur siggy ...and it appears to be from a Hindi serial...and since u visit BW forums...which is mainly for Hindi movies...I am GUESSING u watch Hindi movies too...and ur user name is a Hindi/Urdu mix too...

Originally posted by: wetdream

so ur point? hindi is not my native language n no1 speak it in my place still we dont feel like some1 is forcing it is on us! n 😛 n y u get personal always debate without attacks 🥱 n we didnt make a big issue like tamils over hindi😆

Originally posted by: wetdream

i never understood y south indians have problem accepting hindi as national language? whenever i go for debate on forums they say they hate hindi n their most common attack is north indians r not true indians🤪