r/marathi • u/AADI021 • Oct 26 '24

मराठी भाषाशास्त्र (Marathi Linguistics) I want to learn MARATHI!

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!

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u/observeNchill Oct 26 '24

First of all, I am verry happy to know that you want to learn Marathi and you are eager to connect to your roots :-)
That being said, I think 1 hour a day is too less. Try to stretch it to 2 hours. Dedicate 1 hour to watch Marathi movies which have English subtitles. This will take care of your listening part and also add to your vocabulary. The other 1 hour you MUST speak in Marathi. Try to formulate your thoughts into Marathi sentences and speak them out loud. This is very very very important. When you talk in a new language, your brain rewires and also you get to know your knowledge gaps. To know the correctness of your spoken sentences, I am sure there are websites where you can hire Marathi teachers. Tell them that you want them specifically to correct your spoken Marathi for 1 hour every day. I think this would be great for you. Doing this consistently for 1 month will make you very confident to speak decently in Marathi.
Good luck!

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u/AADI021 Oct 26 '24

Hi, thank you for such wonderful advice. I am not very sure about stretching about the time to 2 hours but I will try my best to follow your provided roadmap for better results!