Indian languages are really very rich and the scripts like Devanagri are also scientific.  But the American students prefer to learn Arabic and Chinese instead of Hindi or Tamil. Obvious reason may be that English is also widely used in India and so nobody needs to learn any other Indian language to do business in India. English is just an Indian language.

 

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English is or has become an Indian language and so it the lingua franca of India and the world, so why would people -read American students take pains to learn any other Indian language.


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Now this trend is changing. Max muller institute of India is offering Sanskrit and other Indian languages for many foreign students.Talikng in the native Language of any country, will promote the relationships. Obama said ' Namaste', when he was in India.

rambabu wrote:

Now this trend is changing. Max muller institute of India is offering Sanskrit and other Indian languages for many foreign students.Talikng in the native Language of any country, will promote the relationships. Obama said ' Namaste', when he was in India.

 

Learning the ancient or dead languages like Sanskrit, Hebrew  or Latin by very small minority is an altogether different matter. The issue is learning modern languages for communication or business needs. The report is that american students give more prominence to Arabic and Chinese.  They don't prefer Hindi and other Indian languages so much. The obvious cause is that they already know English which is widely used in India. So no need to learn the native Indian languages. 

 


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The number of students opting for Indian languages may be low, but there are enough number of Americans who sincerely wish to study Indian languages, with Sanskrit topping the list.


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Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

The number of students opting for Indian languages may be low, but there are enough number of Americans who sincerely wish to study Indian languages, with Sanskrit topping the list.

 

There are students for every language but the point is that Indian languages are less preferred. The obvious reason is that English is as good as any other Indian language and serves all purposes.  . 

 


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Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

The number of students opting for Indian languages may be low, but there are enough number of Americans who sincerely wish to study Indian languages, with Sanskrit topping the list.

 

There are students for every language but the point is that Indian languages are less preferred. The obvious reason is that English is as good as any other Indian language and serves all purposes.  .

 

It is clear here that the interest of Americans in studying foreign languages is not purely academic or scholarly, and hence use of English in India is not an influencing or discouraging factor. The reason for them studying Arabic or other Asian languages is purely economic and strategical!


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Gulshan Kumar Ajmani wrote:
Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

The number of students opting for Indian languages may be low, but there are enough number of Americans who sincerely wish to study Indian languages, with Sanskrit topping the list.

 

There are students for every language but the point is that Indian languages are less preferred. The obvious reason is that English is as good as any other Indian language and serves all purposes.  . 

 

Sir, now the situation is changing. In many universities in America, oriental languages are taught and the response is quite good.

University of Texas is offering under the head of Oriental languages all the languages of Asia, especially Sanskrit and all the important languages of India.

 

 

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

The number of students opting for Indian languages may be low, but there are enough number of Americans who sincerely wish to study Indian languages, with Sanskrit topping the list.

 

There are students for every language but the point is that Indian languages are less preferred. The obvious reason is that English is as good as any other Indian language and serves all purposes.  .

 

It is clear here that the interest of Americans in studying foreign languages is not purely academic or scholarly, and hence use of English in India is not an influencing or discouraging factor. The reason for them studying Arabic or other Asian languages is purely economic and strategical!

 

I agree. The purely academic interest for pursuit of knowledge is languages is negligible and found only in scholars- especially for ancient languages not in vogue. The languages are preferred for professional and financial purposes more. There is need for translators and interpreters for various languages. The Americans need translators in Chinese and Arabic.  They do not need such professionals so much for Indian languages as India is very much part of English speaking world. 


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The ever increasing number of Chinese people learning English will soon out number all English speaking people in the world. Maybe that is the reason Americans are trying to beat Chinese at their own game. 


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Microsoft prefers Indian IT experts, because they are better in multi language skills including English. Chinese are not preferred in this regard.

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