Jhanvi Kapoor can't speak Hindi properly? - Page 7

Originally posted by: ~*sindhu*~

I wish people could atleast have their primary education in their mother tongue. It would have been so much easier to learn the basics. It used to be frustrating to read things in english then blankly stare at someone hoping they will explain what I just read which actually means please translate in my mother tongue. I still remember how my grandfather taught me the tables in bengali and I could recite them like a poem and I was just in nursery then. Then when finally in standard 1 my school started teaching me the tables in english I failed the test because they asked in english 😆 Imagine what kachra the school did to my confidence in that one exam. Maths se nafrat ho gayi phir. I don't mind parents sticking to one language and preferably the language that is used in their school. It helps the child to learn better without getting confused. Its a sorry state of affairs that we don't have enough good schools that functions with indian languages.

Originally posted by: clarity

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">With Jhanvi and her generation of star kids, I feel not knowing their mother tongues are because they think English is a superior language and conversing in other Indian languages is 'downmarket'. A statement like 'I don't listen to Indian songs' is considered cool while nobody dares to say 'I don't listen to English songs' even though they only get down and dirty to Indian songs. 😉

I wonder why Sri did not teach her daughters Telugu, Tamil or Hindi but nowadays parents are very intent on their kids being fluent in English, 'cause the world including fellow Indians judge you. The Bollywood/SoBo milieu are very judgemental and consider themselves oh so superior but it's funny when you see their inferiority complexes vis a vis white people.

I believe languages should be thought of as a means to communicate but if you start developing an inferiority/superiority complex because of knowing/not knowing a language, it becomes a problem.

Our nation as a whole has a raging inferiority complex regarding looks and language, hence non-native actresses can make it big here. If the reason was acceptance it would be different, but let's face it, Kat or Jackie only survive here 'cause they are 'gori'. You don't see black girls or even girls from our Northeast in movies.


</font>

Originally posted by: Pemberleydreams

Ak ekke AK DUI ekke dui😆god I hated unis r soteror namta😆

That is a problem. Reading in an Bengali medium never had to face that problem but it can get difficult. I guess knowing how to converse fluently in mother tongue is ok , rest u can learn in English cause ultimately in India also college studies are in English only. It also depends on the family u know,Ur grandfather made sure u keep in touch with Bengali but many parents I see feel proud of their kids don't know how to speak in Bengali.

I had two Friends from same English medium school one could write great poems in Bengali herself ,the other one couldn't read Bengali unless written in English letter like SMS. But both went to same school which though English medium had Bengali as second language and gave a good lot of importance to learning Bengali too. It just makes me sad that some people feel ashamed about knowing their native language.parents n peer pressure too plays a big role.