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Saurabh Daware 🌻

I love this article! Also, I'm trilingual :D (I speak Marathi, Hindi, and English)

My mother tongue is Marathi (It is one of the Indian languages spoken by the people of Maharashtra) so I speak to my parents and native friends in Marathi. Also, I studied in a Marathi medium school and till 5th class, we had all our subjects in Marathi. It was an advantage. It is easier to understand concepts in your mother tongue. After 5th, we had something called a semi-english. so we had Maths, Science in English and Geography, History in Marathi till 10th and after 10th everything has been in English only.

Hindi is a commonly used language in India. So it is generally used when you communicate with someone who has a different mother tongue. You never really have to learn it, you just start understanding it because of the people around you.

Funnily, I learned most of my English because of multiplayer games.

It hasn't really been an issue since I get to use all three languages every day. (Marathi with parents, Hindi with some friends and at local places, English in Tech Meetups, College, and some friends)

The only problem is I know maths tables in Marathi and I don't know 90% of the vegetable names in English 😂

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Chen Hui Jing

wow, thank you for sharing ♥️
omg I feel u so hard about the vegetable names!!