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[karan1609]

Hi guys,
I am Karan from India and am interested in learning Spanish. I found this cool forum and decided to join it. I am planning to start learning Spanish soon. Thanks!!

[Rusty]

Welcome to the forums, Karan!

[JPablo]

Hi, Karan, Salam, Namaste, Unakam and Sasriyant!

Welcome to the Forums!

(The above is the only "Indian" I know... so you can correct me if I am wrong...)

Enjoy your learning around here!

[karan1609]

Perfect JPablo....

perfecto...

[JPablo]

Gracias... Me alegro de que estés en el foro... (para ayudarnos con preguntas de la India...)
[Thank you... I am glad you are on the forum... (so you can assist us with questions about India...)]

[irmamar]

Welcome, Karan.

[CrOtALiTo]

Hello Salam.

Nice your name, really it was a place to meet you, then please if you are interesting to learn English, then here there're a lot of people where you can get an upgrade in your speech, then please have fun mean you are learning it.


Sincerely yours.

[Jessica]

welcome to the forums

[ChilenoAlemanCanada]

Welcome!

[Elaina]

Hola Karan. Bienvenido.

[karan1609]

Ustedes,
Gracias...


@ JPablo
Soy de India. I can definitely help you about your questions about my country...

[irmamar]

Karan, I opened a thread about linguistic situation in India. Maybe you could help me with this situation in your country. Thanks.

[JPablo]

@Karan1609,
Estupendo. Gracias.

That'll be great! [help on questions about India]

[karan1609]

@ irmamar

Hi. I got to know what you are looking for. Basically, India is a vast country and only one central administration was difficult. Hence it was decided to divide the country into states on the basis of language. Many people even in India do not know this but the fact is that there is no official language of the COUNTRY. We are free to converse in any language. But English and Hindi are the official language of the UNION. Hence these are the two most spoken languages in the country.
About why English couldn't replace Hindi? Great britain ruled India for several centuries. Hence, English was firmly engrained in our system. Till independence, even Hindi wasn't popular. It was spoken only in a handful of states. Hence, both English and Hindi are the official languages of the Union in my country.Hence I am able to talk to you here.

There are several hundred languages in India(many of which I dodnt even know the names of). But the origins of all these languages were Sanskrit and Devnagiri. Devnagiri was the script of indo-european settlers in the early the time after death of Christ. All languages spoken in India have originated from these 2 scripts.

Any more queries are welcome.

[irmamar]

Thank you, Karan.

But I can't see well the difference between "country" and "union".

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by irmamar

Thank you, Karan.

But I can't see well the difference between "country" and "union".

Neither can I - the difference is not made at all clear. (Apart from union being easier to pronounce )

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Neither can I - the difference is not made at all clear. (Apart from union being easier to pronounce )

Do you mean that my pronuciation of 'country' is not good?

I'll wait to Karan to explain it better.

[karan1609]

Lol...
well officially a union consists of small set of guilds that the leader invites. The guilds can be both from the country as well as from other countries. A country, on the other hand, consists of all the citizens of the country.

Hope I am making sense this time around...

[irmamar]

Thank you, Karan.