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Originally posted by: souro

I feel really good when I meet such people who don't forget their mother tongue even after spending their whole life outside their motherland.😊

I am disgusted by NRIs IMMIGRATED as ADULTS who let their own language get affected by american / british accent. that is soooo lame!
Acqiring local accent to speak local language is fine, but acquiring local accent to speak mother tongue?? that's ridiculous..😆

Originally posted by: rutumodi915

And not knowing Hindi is just sad... You so can not enjoy Bollywood masala then. When Abhishek Bachchan scares the wits outta the court peoples in Guru, I was like 😍 about him. You so can not get the same effect with subtitles. So, just for the heck of wonerful Hindi flicks, please make your kiddos know Hindi. 😛

This is the best part of knowing an Indian language, the movie. Subtitles have terrible meaning and I hope they never translate a Hindi song. It sounds just weird.

About main topic I would say it is nice to be multilingual and most Indian kids in US/UK are with their mother tongue, English, another foreign language and to a greater extend Hindi thanks to Bolly films.

Originally posted by: souro

I know you guys are talking about teaching one's mother tongue to their children but just wanted to ask, have you noticed how some people develop a funny accent while speaking their MT after living out for some time.😕

Did anyone watch Madhuri dixit on KWK😛?

Originally posted by: Gauri_3

I worry more about getting values right than the mother tongue. My kids can understand hindi just fine and speak it too...with a very cute accent though 😆 ....but it helps them tremendously when they visit India. They can actually communicate with their great grandparents with ease and elders back home are always appreciative that we made the effort to make sure they don't loose touch with their mother tingue. We still need to work on reading and writing hindi part but I am in no hurry for that as yet.

Like the points made here esp. the highlighted part.

Originally posted by: Maya_M

Did anyone watch Madhuri dixit on KWK😛?

I did! I did! Wasn't she totally adorable? But she has a little accent hanging on to her Hindi as well.. Funny how these people's accents change. I am proud of the fact that I know better Gujarati and Hindi than some on of my wannabe friends back in India. My cousin came to America a year ago and he has this forced accent in his English as well as Gujarati. Everytime I hear him talk, I am just like 🤢.

Everytime I go back to India, I always start the conversation in Hindi and my friends start talking in English.. and then, comes my bhashan, I am all worked up by then 😡. They have to act all cool and hip and I have to explain em all to just shut up . Silly peeps...

Originally posted by: mermaid_QT

I am disgusted by NRIs IMMIGRATED as ADULTS who let their own language get affected by american / british accent. that is soooo lame!
Acqiring local accent to speak local language is fine, but acquiring local accent to speak mother tongue?? that's ridiculous..😆

my hubby has an aunt who's been living out of india for 30 years and she acts like she doesn't know pure punjabi anymore! AS IF! she was a grown woman in her early twenties when she came here and there's no way you can forget.

the words she was claiming to not know............even i knew them and i was born and raised in canada.

those kind of ppl really irk me! 😡

Originally posted by: Maya_M

Did anyone watch Madhuri dixit on KWK😛?

i did and as much as i adore her there's one thing i don't admire about her.......her kids don't speak a word of hindi!

maya dont even start that topic about madhuri dixits accent 😆 😆 😆 just kidding, but i am glad you and others are pointing it out becoz i thought i was the only who noticed it 😕 havent we been discussing about her accent a lot? i am tired of pointing out her accent slipping in hindi, when she was there at an opening she pronounced certain words that made me laugh and i had watched that scene again and again to figure out from where did she pick it up, i think a woman of her age who moved out at pretty middle age cannot have an accent at all or at least thats not the time when someone can pick an accent, unless someone purposely pushes that accent in a local setting i agree that in non local setting your accent definitely changes with the people you speak, but she was in a local party and her accent was little strange but you cannot push that type of accent in a local setting, and i hope her kids know hindi too 😆 😆 😆 but whoever she is i still admire her 😆 😆 😆

@qt, concur with you

Originally posted by: mittijalebi

i did and as much as i adore her there's one thing i don't admire about her.......her kids don't speak a word of hindi!

Hindi is not Madhuri or her husbands mother tongue😆

so now she has your admiration back😉

Originally posted by: sareg

Hindi is not Madhuri or her husbands mother tongue😆
so now she has your admiration back😉

😆😆😆.. From what I heard, Doc Nene is not much of a marathi speaker, being raised here in the US, but Madhuri has not forgotten a word and does not plan to in future and I hope she teaches baby nenes to speak too 😳. I am just a bit sad that she never did a single marathi movie. I hope she does one before she retires..