Differences in English training in north India and south India
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I am trying to state my experience.
Being a Bengali and since I studied in Bengali Environment schools and and college, I spoke only Bengali while communicating with all be it in school or any college.
So up to from First to class X or Metric, Bengali was 1st Langs. English was introduced in Class III, Hindi In class V( It was to done to teach us about Devanagari, and not about learning Hindi) as a stepping stone to Sanskrit, which was introduced in Class seven. So in Class X I had Bengali as 1st Langs, English as 2nd Langs and Sanskrit as classical Indian Langs.
My sons who studied in Maharashtra had studied four langs English, Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit!!!!!
I was expose to the bombardment in English When I entered my college for graduation.
Obviously I was at sea for two months to understand the our professors blitzkrieg. All the time i was translating those flows of English sentences to Bengali in mind to understand the subject.
I still wonder Why I learned Sanskrit which had no bearing in future fields.
Chanchal
Being a Bengali and since I studied in Bengali Environment schools and and college, I spoke only Bengali while communicating with all be it in school or any college.
So up to from First to class X or Metric, Bengali was 1st Langs. English was introduced in Class III, Hindi In class V( It was to done to teach us about Devanagari, and not about learning Hindi) as a stepping stone to Sanskrit, which was introduced in Class seven. So in Class X I had Bengali as 1st Langs, English as 2nd Langs and Sanskrit as classical Indian Langs.
My sons who studied in Maharashtra had studied four langs English, Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit!!!!!
I was expose to the bombardment in English When I entered my college for graduation.
Obviously I was at sea for two months to understand the our professors blitzkrieg. All the time i was translating those flows of English sentences to Bengali in mind to understand the subject.
I still wonder Why I learned Sanskrit which had no bearing in future fields.
Chanchal
There is absolutely no difference in english language in different regions of India. Only accent differs.
Dr K Chaudhry
Job less fella posted Re:Differences in English training in north India and south India on 7 mnths ago
Dr K Chaudhry
Job less fella posted Re:Differences in English training in north India and south India on 7 mnths agoI agree,
bhasha ka ucchang vyakran sey mapa jata hai ,uccharan sey nahi :)
bhasha ka ucchang vyakran sey mapa jata hai ,uccharan sey nahi :)
This makes sense. The differences I see between the English that Indian people speak and write are attributable to differences in exposure to and training in English, and natural linguistic abilities. Two people who have got similar levels of English exposure and training and are similarly proficient in their mother tongues tend show similar English proficiency, regardless of which language they speak at home. This is the reason we can count both NIs and SIs among the best Indian writers of English, notwithstanding the missing articles and misplaced apostrophes that people get picked on routinely here.
is that if an American speaks in broken Spanish, I should feel proud at his effort. Or if a hispanic speaks in broken English.
If an Indian polishes my shoes in India, I should treat him the same way as I treat an American doing it at the airport.
If an Indian polishes my shoes in India, I should treat him the same way as I treat an American doing it at the airport.
Good for you.
The reason why I call FF = Brit slave mentality.
People who are "superficial" in judging others/self, are often found to judge a person based on what they can speak or write purely in terms of punctuation/apostrophe usage. Not that they are not important, but as important as to how a human dresses in different cultures.
I have ABSOLUTELY NO doubt in my mind that there exists thousands of illiterates in this world who are better than me, let alone English professor FF.
People who are "superficial" in judging others/self, are often found to judge a person based on what they can speak or write purely in terms of punctuation/apostrophe usage. Not that they are not important, but as important as to how a human dresses in different cultures.
I have ABSOLUTELY NO doubt in my mind that there exists thousands of illiterates in this world who are better than me, let alone English professor FF.
gertrude stein would have punished brit slaves with sentences like:
"anything that is why then may give them a share. of feeling like it."
Well, I watched TZP - a dyslexic child - and I wondered what will happen to a man like FF/Billo who are obsessed with correct grammar if they had a child like that?
But then, none of such "superficials" are capable to produce an Einstein.
But then, none of such "superficials" are capable to produce an Einstein.
talking about superficials, there are so many of them here. someone got irritated because i analyze poems. someone got irritated because i offered myself to jaijui in a poem. lol :))
Let's forget FF, because people come in all forms and with many types of personalities, and enjoy the following song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZAnqgbMrfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZAnqgbMrfY
Hahahaha :)
Well, Kishan Kumar is my neighbor in India.
Well, Kishan Kumar is my neighbor in India.
who is Kishan Kumar?
Gulshan Kumar's bro - T-Series owner.
DP. We now need a code word for the crooner. suggest one.
crooner? croonin to who?
shhh shhh
I dont have even ONE secret in my life.
Wrong number
Wrong number
arre I can't type his name because the search engines will pick it up. Whose videos irritate you.
bb = bharat bhushan
sounds good.
sounds good.
But why hide from him?
If he is important enough to have a secret word, why not have 1st hand conversations with him?
Nah. If you decide on a code word, I will make sure that I reply with his name in subject line
If he is important enough to have a secret word, why not have 1st hand conversations with him?
Nah. If you decide on a code word, I will make sure that I reply with his name in subject line
aaah. All right no more videos of him 
Will miss it for sure. Besides, if it is someone, QB should talk to him.
Will miss it for sure. Besides, if it is someone, QB should talk to him.
he's far too smart for any of us. trust me.
well. didn't someone suggest today that it is you? But how did you guess the song he is going to sing? Does he put the song in his own site before it comes on youtube?
Q: Is pahari an actual language or symbolic for ...? I thought pahari was used in reference to people who live in the mountains (and sang songs about the wadiya holding a mutki :)). The paharis i've known spoke gadwali or dogri.
Job less fella posted Re:Differences in English training in north India and south India on 7 mnths ago
Job less fella posted Re:Differences in English training in north India and south India on 7 mnths agoactually pahari can mean diffrent things dependin on the situation.
in the musical context
pahari or pahari dhun refers to the folk music or superior musical symphony derived from that folk music.
in linguistics
pahari --can be used to group by the diffrent dialects spoken int he foot hills of himalaya.
in the musical context
pahari or pahari dhun refers to the folk music or superior musical symphony derived from that folk music.
in linguistics
pahari --can be used to group by the diffrent dialects spoken int he foot hills of himalaya.
We used to do the south indian alphabet at school for fun which was ye be ce de ...etc and we had a couple of teachers from the south whose pronounciation was bad. But we also had the north indian teachers with their is-station etc. luckily none of these individuals were actually english teachers so it did not really matter and they just got made fun of.