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Oddly enough it had gone super rusty for me, but adding iOS devnagri keyboard and following some Hindi tweeters got me back to reasonable fluency fairly quickly. But it’s a pain to read longform. Read a really good short story recently and it was a strain.
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Yeah I was usually at the top in English and sucked at Hindi, but mainly because teachers and available reading material sucked, and street Hindi in Jamshedpur is very different from ICSE textbook Hindi. I think I’d have been writer-level decent with the right teachers.
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Wonder if this is true of very online Indian English Twitter in general. Being good at English more than local language that is
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Yeah we’re all middle class. But also Hindi teachers tend to be depressed angry people who take it out in class on kids. All mine were kinda psychos. The lack of respect for what they do gets to them.
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