Originally posted by: EkPaheli
Why would I hit you? 
Some people don’t make an effort, it’s true. I think if you’re a tourist just passing by an area you can still pick up some basic words, no one will expect 💯 fluency but will appreciate the effort and help you. If you live somewhere new, and you know you’re going to live there for a long time, then you must learn the local language as much as possible. Again, fluency and accuracy is not expected, neither is your accent going to be an issue but at least try to learn the language for your own benefit. How would you live in a place where you can’t communicate with people at all?
Gujaratis, Jains and Marwaris are business oriented communities; we know languages are essential for business and learning any language is just a bonus. Anyone who knows you’re not a native speaker will see the effort and appreciate you, help you and even correct you and if they do, you smile, learn and say thank you; learn to speak better. Our families don’t tell us to be rigid and we speak in our mother tongues at home, so it’s not a problem.
Language wars are picked up by people who don’t want to see that language is simply a mode of communication; it doesn’t have to be anything more than that.
My parents are Kutchi; I have grown up talking in Kutchi, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, English and can speak and understand a bit of Punjabi too. My dad worked with Marwaris predominantly and he was so fluent in the language that he was asked if he was lying about being a Kutchi by many people because they couldn’t believe how he spoke the language like he was born hearing it when he said he took about 3 years to master the language. He spoke with people from all sorts of backgrounds in the Marwari community and they were all pleasantly surprised or shocked to know he had no exposure to Marwari as a dialect until he was in his late teens, practically on the verge of being an adult and that neither of his parents and obviously by extension grandparents or extended family members were Marwaris.
😂😂.
Yeah true, and it's nice to learn.
Very true if it is business you tend to learn not just for the business purpose but to be part of the local culture.
Good to know about your father.😃
Probably, my place has more Navratri Dandiya pendals organized, and every Hindu participates, localites buy tickets and join them. 😂😂 Garbha bhi seekh rhe hai hamare log aajkal😂. Earlier it used to be among the Gujrati Marwadi communities but now it has become part of Dashara here. Business bhi hogya and kuch naya seekh bhi rhe hai.😃
One third rich people of the city own big houses, resorts, buildings are by Gujjus, Marwadis. "Shah" and "Kothari" k naam pe Hospitals, Goldshops, Buildings, Apartments, Schools, Plots, layouts every where ruling here.😃😃
But no localite ever had an issue with them.
As long as we root to respect and learn local culture, we grow better.
I often feel, we don't have an issue to learn English, get their accent, follow their culture, rules when we go to any other country, but ppl refuse to embrace our own indian language and culture.
Why we are complicating things godd knows..
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