What is wrong not learning Hindi? - Page 7

Originally posted by: _LalithaJanaki_

By these maps, it's clear that Hindi is the language spoken by India's majority.

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Originally posted by: _LalithaJanaki_

By these maps, it's clear that Hindi is the language spoken by India's majority.

I would say there is a difference between language "spoken" and language "learned" and language "preferred".

lol i learnt to speak in hindi by watching starplus dramas hindi films music etc etc etc

i know punjabi and hindi
and there are tons of languages in India...hindi cant be the most spoken
maybe everyone knows it, but not everyone speaks it

I never knew there was such a big uproar on the Hindi language. I personally would prefer to speak Hindi over my community language because it is understood by majority of Indians.

the reason why several communities are trying to avoid learning hindi are just because they want to preserve their own languages. it would be a shame if many indian languages have to cease be spoken if people just prefer hindi due to being spoken by the majority of indian population.

Originally posted by: rongna

the reason why several communities are trying to avoid learning hindi are just because they want to preserve their own languages. it would be a shame if many indian languages have to cease be spoken if people just prefer hindi due to being spoken by the majority of indian population.

The Indian Education System is wrong. Hindi must not be made compulsory for students who do not want to learn the language. Children are brainwashed that Prathmik is useful in life and go on to learn it. Hindi is a language that is used only in India and is useful nowhere else. Yes, it's just good enough to understand Bollywood movies. It is a young and poorly developed language, that's stolen a lot of terms from the english language.

Originally posted by: jagdu

The Indian Education System is wrong. Hindi must not be made compulsory for students who do not want to learn the language. Children are brainwashed that Prathmik is useful in life and go on to learn it. Hindi is a language that is used only in India and is useful nowhere else. Yes, it's just good enough to understand Bollywood movies. It is a young and poorly developed language, that's stolen a lot of terms from the english language.

Originally posted by: hindu4lyf

But why would a certain regional language cease to exist just because you can speak another language?

My mum was born and brought up in Maharashtra and she can speak our community language, marathi, hindi, sanskrit and english all fluently! Yet if I ask her which she prefers to speak, she will say Hindi because that's the language she speaks in with ALL of her indian friends-they are all gujju/punjabi/marathi and that's like a common language for them all to speak in. Obviously it differs from person to person but it's easier for them to communicate in Hindi together. Nevertheless she does have a south indian friend who can understand kacha hindi but doesn't really speak it too well, but no-one here is losing their identity. With family they will speak gujju/punjabi etc, with colleagues in english, while doing pooja in sanskrit lol etc.

well... if hindi is to be made the national language that everybody has to study it, then people will start using it and will cease to use the other indian languages, or if they do not cease to use the other indian languages it will reduce them from using the other indian languages considerably. this is because they do not see the significance of learning multiple languages as not many people can use it, and it is enough to study hindi and they can communicate with everybody within india. therefore, even though it will not be instantaneously other languages will be ceased to be spoken in india or considerably reduced. if this is to continue, then the fluency of speaking the other languages in india will also be greatly reduced. there are perhaps some exception with the people who like to study and be able to speak different languages, but come there are even more people who do not like to study and do not see the need to study these languages such as punjabi, gujju, tamil just because they are not compulsory and with limited regional range of conversation.

by this we can take the example of china. china is a very big country with different kinds of dialects. the only reasons in india why these other official languages other than hindi are considered languages is because of the protests and complains, movements against hindi being the national language of india, therefore, the other languages are considered to be official languages depending on which governments and states you can from. this however is not the case in china. in china there is only one official language that is the chinese. dialects are still spoken in china, but its usage is not as significant as say 60 years back. schools everywhere in china teach the mandarin and forbid their pupils to speak their dialects, the government encourages the people to speak mandarin rather than their own dialects. i have a chinese friend who told me that even though they can speak their dialects, they still to prefer speak chinese with their friends and relatives. they only speak their dialects with their parents and that too mix with chinese as they are not fluent with their dialects. even their parents do not dialects to speak with friends or in public, they only use it with their relatives, it was at the time of their grandparents where their grandparents still use dialects openly, at home or at public. from this we can see that the usage of dialects were increasing as the generations go and if this continue, the possibility of these dialects to cease to exist is there and really big. therefore, that is why i said that they want to preserve their own language so that it would not cease to exist and continue to be spoken by the next generation. and i do really think that it would be a shame if indian languages have to cease be spoken just because people prefer hindi due to being spoken by the majority of the indian population.