Sunday, January 30, 2011

Saturday Night Market, Arpora

I was quite surprised to notice a middle aged woman selling ready made garments at Saturday Night Market in Arpora, Goa who spoke confidently to a customer in Russian.

On asking she told me that she could converse well in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

I know only my Mother tongue and English.

How many languages can you speak confidently?

11 comments:

  1. Wow. That's amazing. I'd love to be able to speak that many languages. I can speak Cantonese, but not fluently. We lived in hong Kong for three years so I learnt enough to get around. I can also speak smatterings of french and Spanish.

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  2. I can speak Hindi, English, Bengali and Telugu and beginner's German and would love to learn French and Spanish..

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  3. Wow...I know only Malayalam, English and Hindi....Love Bengali but do not know a word...tried learning French and Spanish, but could not come out in flying colours....

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  4. Fluently I can speak English, Hindi and Bengali. And can manage with Marathi and Gujarati!

    It's amusing how all ur posts end with a question :)

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  5. Tamil, Hindi and English.

    This morning I was having a conversation on languages and here I find a post on it.

    Joy always,
    Susan

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  6. Well, I can speak - Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Tulu, English... Blessing of being an Indian :D

    Thanks for stopping by my blog! I love having visitors...

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  7. I can speak hindi english and rajasthani...

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  8. In my case, I am not confident in any of the languages, when speaking is concerned, even my mother tongue.

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  9. Oh wow! That's a lot of languages that women has known!!
    I am confident in Tamil and English! Well, to some extent Hindi and German!!

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  10. @ Everyone : Thanks for telling about yourself. :)

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