I thought hindi was the official language..
Do they have to learn english as well and is it used often around the country??
2006-07-15 19:58:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Cutie- No, I didn't know all that.. I knew they had more than a couple.. But not that many.. wow!! Thanks..
2006-07-15 20:06:06 · update #1
ya. I speak it ....English is used quite all around India. Hindi is the official language. But we use English also. You know , India has around 306 languages! no , not slangs , but real languages!
2006-07-15 20:02:51 · answer #1 · answered by Cutie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not from India, but I know a lot of Indians. I've been told that English is taught in school from the beginning along with the local language. Hindi is the official language along with English. But Hindi is mostly only spoken in the north (but the majority of the population lives in the north). Since there are so many different language spoken in India, they use English as a common language and their local language at home. Therefore, any educated Indian knows English and at least one other language. Also, Hindi is very associated with Hinduism (which is very tied to particular social and cultural ideas). Since there are many Muslims and other faiths in India, those people will also prefer to use English (or another non-Hindi language like Urdu) when they can.
2006-07-16 03:09:07 · answer #2 · answered by Josh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hindi is the official language. But since the British times, English has been the official language in any office. It still is to this day. Education in a convent school is considered a privilege where the medium of instruction is English for all subjects and there are other periods for mother tongue and Hindi. That's why English is very commonly spoken in India and that too in a very proper way, without any slang. The proof is in the BPO sector where many youngsters are on equal terms with their American or British counterparts.
2006-07-16 03:05:18 · answer #3 · answered by sunilbernard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not everyone but almost all the educted people who went to college can speaak English. And in the Job sextor and commerce English is the lingua franca. Even our prime minister and presidents address the nation in english and hindi as well.
But there are many different languages in India and we do not understand the languages of all the states, so it's very common for us to use English when we go out of our states.
English is taught from the very beginning of our school and it is so inherently related with us that we sometimes feel easier to express our ideas in English rather than in our own mother tongue. It's a cause of concern for many people that people are forgetting their own language and using english to converse among themselves.
2006-07-16 11:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by Max P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is true Hindi is the official language. 99% of all Indians know it. But since India was a British colony, English started to stick. Now that America has taken lots of jobs to India, a high percentage need to know it to recieve jobs.
2006-07-16 03:05:36 · answer #5 · answered by B!shop 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people in the bigger cities of India understand English, while a lot might not be able to converse comfortably.
A large number studied and speak English at home, and it is the language of commerce, so is required for any type of business.
2006-07-16 03:05:42 · answer #6 · answered by radical_ri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There are some people in India who does not went to school even once
2006-07-16 03:09:19 · answer #7 · answered by Prabhu G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of educated class do speak english
2006-07-16 03:15:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not? seems like everyone I run into in the US speaks Spanish.
2006-07-16 03:01:40 · answer #9 · answered by R.Elsedragon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard a lot of people (educated) speak english really really fast
2006-07-16 03:01:59 · answer #10 · answered by Nonstoplvr 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋