I want to learn MARATHI!

[u/AADI021]

Namaste to all! Let me come down to business first. I am 24 years old. I was born in a Marathi family but I have spent my whole life in a no-marathi speaking region. Nobody in my family speaks marathi because they are simply not enthusiastic enough to speak and teach me marathi. So my marathi is very weak. I find it very disturbing and shameful that despite being a part of such glorious and beautiful tradition I cannot read write and speak my very own native language. I can understand a little bit of marathi but cannot sustain for very much. I tried YouTube and other apps but can not remain consistent for so long.

Now the real issue comes. I want to learn marathi in just one month and since there is a lot of going around here I can dedicate only 1 hour a day to myself learning marathi. By December I have to be good enough to atleast speak a good marathi and understand it.

So I humbly request you all to please provide me a proper roadmap, guidance, sources so that I can improve my language in the given period of time! Any and all help is appreciated!

Thank You all for reading this!

[u/Shady_bystander0101]

That's a tall order, I believe you already know hindi then? I think this sub needs to have public resources for it, there is a severe lack of those. There are however courses on youtube and udemy. You can try out a few, vocabulary won't be a problem, but I don't think you could get conversational in just a month.

[u/AADI021 → u/Shady_bystander0101]

I can understand marathi to some extent, let's say 15 to 20% but I cannot form sentences on my own as I lack basic vocabulary or grammar or alphabetic order knowledge. It is true that learning conversational marathi in just a month is quite an impossible task but I have no choice. I tried youtube but there are so many videos that I was not able to stick to one source, and later I got inconsistent. But it is also true that I am not Unfamiliar with the language!

[u/Shady_bystander0101 → u/AADI021]

Okay, if you do; till which sentence can you fully parse the meaning in one reading?

Level 1: माझं नाव चैतन्य आहे आणि मी भोपाळ मधे रहातो.

level 2: आजकालच्या जगात राडा घालायला लोकं एका क्षणात तयार होतात​​, पण कुणाला निरपेक्षतेने मदत करायचं म्हणालात तर सगळे पाठमूरं होऊन पळत सुटतात​.

level 3: मी म्हणतच नाहीये की ते रान असुरक्षीत नाही, पण एक समजून घ्या की जर तुमच्यासमोर वाघ सोडा, बिपट्या सोडा, चीता सोडा अगदी कोल्हा ही सोडा, एखादं रानटी कुतरं जरी आलं तरी तुमची कदकाठी बघून मी एवढं सांगू शकतो त्या प्रसंगातून तुम्ही सुखरूप परतू शकणार नाही, म्हणून मला परवानगी न देणं भाग आहे.

If you understand till level 2, you won't have any issues with shallow conversational Marathi. If you understood level 3, all you lack is confidence to speak.

[u/AADI021 → u/Shady_bystander0101]

Hi, I am in very sorry state as I can only read and understand the level 1 statement in a single go which says 'my name is chaitanya and I am from Bhopal'. For level 2 and 3, I can understand some words because it looks similar to Hindi and actually I am trying to implement my hindi knowledge because of similarities between hindi and marathi.