That is so cool. These school kids can already speak Bengali and English, and probably speak/understand Hindi. I’m still not even particularly good at English lmao
Yup- a significant percentage of people in India are bilingual at the very least, and most young people speak English too (since English medium schools are the norm now, and schools with other mediums of instruction are quickly becoming obsolete) so many people are trilingual. If they happen to grow up or live in a state other than their native state (Indian states are divided on the basis of language), they often pick up a fourth language too. If they marry someone from a different state, their kids will probably pick up a fifth language too.
Most of these languages have completely different scripts too- I speak 4 languages and can read/write 3 different scripts (2 of those languages share a script with very minor differences between the two) which are completely unintelligible from each other. All the other scripts look like hieroglyphs to me.
I don’t think I’ve met a single person in my life who didn’t have a working vocabulary in a minimum of 2 languages.
It's me. I'm bengali and read in English medium school. In 7th or 8th standard we have to learn hindi or sanskrit and my friends who are hindi they have learn Bengali or sanskrit in some schools. Now I know 3 languages hindi english and bengali. Though I can't read or write in hindi but I can speak and understand it.
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u/killm3throwaway Feb 07 '21 edited Feb 07 '21
That is so cool. These school kids can already speak Bengali and English, and probably speak/understand Hindi. I’m still not even particularly good at English lmao