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RE: Conver-setting

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Interesting to hear that your mother tongue might slowly be overtaken by English.

I think there are two sides to the story. One is losing a very important part of the tradition, which is very sad, but on the flip side of the coin, you have a new generation which might have a great advantage in the increasingly connected world. English is already the language of the internet and the language of science. If you can understand, speak, and write English like a native speaker, you can engage with the world much better.

I think that in some decades ahead, the first language in most countries will be English, and you will learn the formal first language in school, much like Latin today.

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For me it is not a good...India already is on world stage and have adapted everywhere pretty well...my oncerned is more for the local where they also changing the lifestyle....and somewhere other to feel low who are not so good at it....atleast they value and respect the mother language at home or at general areas

You are right that a lot of the culture might fade away with the change of language. My grandmother used to speak a dialect called "Low German" in her childhood. When I was born, it had more or less completely faded away. She also feels sadness that no one was talking it anymore. When she meets her brothers and sisters, they always start to talk in this dialect when they speak to each other.

I haven't experienced such a change firsthand, so I might be a bit too harsh with my more positive view on it.

Sanskrit was our ancient language...bit how many of us know it properly...I belive only few of us.....so it won't take time to see hindi losing somewhere to English language....