The pluses of being bi-lingual

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:the french, germans and the italians. who else, duh! those whose mother tongue is hindi should learn english to remain as smart as those who learn hindi as a second language.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:exactly! i am telling you everyone should learn hindi in addition to their mother tongue.

being trilingual makes you even smarter or diminishing returns?

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:exactly! i am telling you everyone should learn hindi in addition to their mother tongue.

being trilingual makes you even smarter or diminishing returns?

chameli wrote:

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:exactly! i am telling you everyone should learn hindi in addition to their mother tongue.

being trilingual makes you even smarter or diminishing returns?

well said huz/huf.

any language offered is a delight to learn .Hindi is just such a language and useful to bind north and south Indians together

now how does it matter who has to do it ?

Just do it

chameli wrote:its called nation building kris

put aside personal interest and benefit and see what u can do to improve communication between different states in India

Im sure china and Japan have different dialects throught out their country but they functiun as one nation and speak enough to be understood by others

they have no personal agenda

In India Hindi should be accepted nay asked to be shoved what disastrous consequences can there be ?

One more beautiful language to be learnt

Its we who have told ourselves that .It's our loss

If each special interest group refuses to cooperate in a venture that affects us all

then that as sure as hell will spell disaster a good reson why India will never be at the top

chameli wrote:forget the sixties etc

>>>> Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it (Santayana?)
but what of those who are left behind


wouldn't knowing a language that could get them to travel across states help them communicate and do better business with one another ?
>>>> if they need it , they will learn it.

why should learning a language be considered odious ?its a mind set that the South need to get away from

>>>This is a decision for an individual to make.


Indeed India is diverse but we would help her get better if we co operated .

>>> has India borken apart in the past 65 years?

We need a common language other than English to establish who we are

>>>Indians know who they are. They may yet develop a common lingua franca, but this needs to be from the grassroots. My mother learned hindi when she went to live in jabalpur after her marriage, because that's where my father was posted. Strangely, my dad did not, since the common language fro him was english at work. Its all about need or interest. When people feel they are being forced to do something, it backfires

and lets face it... it can't very well be Tamil or Kannada