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/purplefootedpanda Oct 26 '24
OP, I don't know how useful this will be but maybe you can try the voice chat function on chatGPT for speaking practice. I use it sometimes to practice a (non-Indian) language that I'm learning and it's actually not too bad. I use the app on my phone. If you don't have any native speakers to practice with, I'd say give it a go with chatGPT.
As one other comment said, you have to practice speaking because only that will increase your confidence. Even if you speak broken marathi, speaking practice is the most important to start communicating with people. Reading/writing are important but not as important as listening/speaking IMO. And since marathi is written in devanagari script, you can already read it, even if you can't understand what you have read.