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What are the most popular languages in India?
Even though India is the 2nd largest English speaking country in the world the main reason why people have difficulty in speaking english fluently is that is it not their native language. Second Language Acquisition/Learning maybe very difficult.
Between mother tongue, second and third language, the 2011 census records that over 10% of Indians reported being able to speak some English. There is a clear class element at work—41% of the rich could speak English as against less than 2% of the poor.
The default native — or neutral — accent is called “General American.” Rebecca Linquist, an accent coach who works exclusively with executives and aspiring executives in Silicon Valley, says that even if Indian professionals are understandable, they can be misinterpreted or misread.
The truth is: there is no Indian English accent. It’s shaped by the vernacular we speak and the vernaculars we speak are many. Guwahati onwards, into the NE, they have a beautiful way of softening the ‘r’. Malayalam and Tamil will shape your English vowels in their own manner, so will Bangla.
There are many, very distinct, British accents. It’s true that Indian accent is the most difficult one in the world to understand.
India now claims to be the world’s second-largest English-speaking country. The most reliable estimate is around 10% of its population or 125 million people, second only to the US and expected to quadruple in the next decade.
We use ‘itself’ to emphasize that the homework was done today, not yesterday. Nor was it delayed till tomorrow. What is the correct way to emphasize the fact that the homework was done today? Itself is superfluous.
Bengali. India is famous for its linguistic diversity, and one of the most beautiful languages spoken on the Indian Subcontinent is certainly Bengali. It has a gorgeous writing system to begin with, and a flowing sound that one of the world’s greatest poets, Rabindranath Tagore, used to create his art.
What Is Hinglish? Hinglish is a mix of Hindi (the official language of India) and English (an associate official language of India) that is spoken by upwards of 350 million people in urban areas of India. (India contains, by some accounts, the largest English-speaking population in the world.)
Indian accents are indeed influenced by British English, but that is not the end of the story. In addition, some speakers may curl their tongue back to produce sounds such as “t,” “d,” and “l” giving these sounds a different quality than we hear in American or British English.
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