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| View Poll Results: Which Indian Languages can you speak? | |||
| Hindi |
  
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40 | 75.47% |
| Bengali |
  
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4 | 7.55% |
| Punjabi |
  
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8 | 15.09% |
| Tamil |
  
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15 | 28.30% |
| Kannada |
  
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9 | 16.98% |
| Marathi |
  
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6 | 11.32% |
| Oriya |
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2 | 3.77% |
| Malayalam |
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11 | 20.75% |
| Telugu |
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7 | 13.21% |
| Others (please mention) |
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13 | 24.53% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 53. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Oct 18th, 2005, 10:25
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Unreasonably Unreasonable Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Indian Languages you can speak?
Question to all IMers (travelers, NRIs, RIs, PIOs, UFOs, RMs and Mods) -
Which Indian Languages can you speak/read/write? Last edited by Paagla Dashu : Oct 18th, 2005 at 12:20. |
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Oct 18th, 2005, 12:09
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: mekalapalli AP
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i am learning Telugu. Long way to go still, but i 'm starting to get the hang of it...gimme another year or ten before i start reading and writing it though
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Oct 18th, 2005, 13:19
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Maha Guru Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Back to 'God's own country'
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Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and also broken Marathi
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Oct 18th, 2005, 15:06
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Maha Guru Member
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
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Hindi, sort of
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Oct 18th, 2005, 15:26
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मेरा नाम दान्येल है
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Switzerland
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just started to learn Hindi. I hate subtitles, so this is the only solution
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Oct 18th, 2005, 15:28
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Maha Guru Member
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Australia
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Word. The jokes also seem less lame once you understand the context and emphasis a bit better - no way those poor subtitle writers can translate some of that stuff.
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Oct 18th, 2005, 15:37
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Bulk Carrier
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Chennai
Posts: 1,832
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I can speak Telugu, Hindi, ENGLISH (it is an Indian language too!), Tamil, Oriya, Bengali and Kannada.
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Oct 18th, 2005, 15:41
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: oregon
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tori tori punjabi
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Oct 18th, 2005, 16:41
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Account Closed
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: germany/yugoslavia
Posts: 215
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Sanskrit bhasha!
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Oct 18th, 2005, 17:25
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back to my old ways
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Hyderabad
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rangss, that is quite a diverse mix!
malayalam, hindi, tamil for me. ( though i cant say i am very fluent in tamil ). |
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Oct 18th, 2005, 18:27
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Made in India
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Chicago, USA
Posts: 109
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Gujurati & some Hindi mixed in with Gujurati
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Oct 18th, 2005, 19:52
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Compulsive India traveller
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Oslo/Trondheim, Norway
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I'm learning Hindi. Not too easy to practice in Norway, though, but the Urdu-speakers understand me.
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Oct 18th, 2005, 23:18
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Veda Chanting & Mantra Yoga teacher
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: body in Mumbai, head in Himalaya
Posts: 2,726
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Languages
Gujaraatii, Hindii, MaraaThii, English, li'l bit Telugu, even smaller bit kannaDaa, am learning to speak samskrit, but can understand most of samskrit bhaaShaa as spoken by someone else.
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Oct 19th, 2005, 04:59
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gori ferungi ladki
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Bangalore, usually
Posts: 245
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Am learning Hindi, slowly but surely... My devanagari is better than my Hindi, if that's possible (I can read but I don't know what it says... *grin*)
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Oct 19th, 2005, 05:05
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Aircraft Service Engineer, Astronomer & Traveller
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Mumbai, India. (Lat 18.967 N, Long 72.833 E, Alt 11 m)
Posts: 1,801
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English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati are the four Indian languages I can speak, read and write.
Cheers, Aadil.
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