Mind your language

@yugocean (9963)
India
January 27, 2018 6:19am CST
Nope, this is not about UK comic genre TV series MYL, this is all about Your Language. There are more than 7000 languages recognised today, but just 20 languages account for more than half the world's population. Mandarin is the most widely spoken language within the China, but it is so hard that it is not used in other countries. While other languages like English, Hindi, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese are used even at international levels. I am a Punjabi living outside Punjab; apart from Punjabi, there are Hindi and English (with Urdu) that I use. What about you? Image created by Me
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jaishankar
@Shivram59 (50187)
• India
27 Jan 18
@yugocean My mother tongue is Hindi.I can read,write and speak Oriya also.
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yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
27 Jan 18
Nice to know, you are living in Odisha? CM of Odisha himself do not know Oriya.
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jaishankar
@Shivram59 (50187)
• India
28 Jan 18
@yugocean Yes,and it's sad.Oriya is a very sweet and powerful language.I love it.
Hanni Harel
@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
18 Mar 18
My mother tongue is English and I had to learn Hebrew practically from the start here in Israel.
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yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
19 Mar 18
Is there only Hebrew in Israel?
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Hanni Harel
@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
19 Mar 18
@yugocean yugocean, Hebrew is the language of the Jewish People. People come from all over and speak many languages from the country where they come from. There are Jews that came from Arab countries and they can speak Arabic too.
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yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
19 Mar 18
@Hannihar You are English speaking Jew; so from where you are? England?
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Sanjeev
@sjvg1976 (42727)
• Delhi, India
27 Jan 18
My native language is Hindi but I can speak English, Punjabi.
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yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
27 Jan 18
English is so common because Jobs require it; yet but for family and social speaking, it is always Hindi and local languages.
Anna
@LadyDuck (502403)
• Italy
27 Jan 18
My native language is Italian, I have lived in France 27 years, so my second language is French, I speak English, Spanish and German.
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yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
27 Jan 18
5 languages. that's good. Which do you think is easy most and which of them is hard?
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yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
28 Jan 18
@LadyDuck hmmm, perhaps this is because English was made from different languages and German is itself established with hard grammar for centuries.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502403)
• Italy
28 Jan 18
@yugocean English in my opinion is easy, for me German was the hardest.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382036)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Jan 18
I speak English but know a little French and German.
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yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
28 Jan 18
I tried to learn french, and know a little.
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yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
28 Jan 18
@JudyEv Because French is soft! English use hard characters and French use soft; Hindi have both hard and soft characters that every character can be pronounced differently.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382036)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Jan 18
@yugocean I love the French language and would like to learn more.
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staplotick
@stapllotik (1935)
• India
28 Jan 18
I speak Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati, hariyanvi, English, little little French and German. However, I don't believe that any language is harder to learn than another. German is one example of a language that is in many ways easier to learn than English.
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yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
28 Jan 18
So we can say Hariyanvi boling? if you know Haryanvi as most of the time I lived in Haryana. German is a language which others are saying is difficult, how you find it easier?
yugocean
@yugocean (9963)
• India
28 Jan 18
@stapllotik That is good, so this mean only those find German hard who have more fond in soft words. In Hindi we can use both hard and soft T, D etc, but English have only hard and French have only soft; what German have?
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staplotick
@stapllotik (1935)
• India
28 Jan 18
@yugocean yes right. As for your second question, personally I feel the pronunciation of German words are easier then French words. The German words are pronounced like they are written. Also if you be attentive, the long German words are bunch of short words can be pronounce easily. For eg : Gemüsesuppe means vegetable soup.
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