Why Learn Hindi in Karnataka? Views on Learning Multiple Languages

If we learn Kannada and English, that's enough. Why do we need Hindi?

Whoever goes to Bihar needs English and Hindi, at least a little.

Does Kannada work there? It doesn't, in Maharashtra.

They learn only Marathi. They don't learn everything.

We should learn Kannada too. If we want to go abroad and work, we have to learn all the languages.

Like they said, Kannada is ours, our mother tongue, yes.

But all languages are mandatory for us. Now I'm a driver, sir.

When we go outside, we should know at least a little of all kinds of languages.

They say learning Kannada and English is enough, don't they?

Then, when we go elsewhere, we might have to do some kind of business, you know.

If we say, "They never taught you Hindi at school," what do you think?

If we go to a different school, we'd have to take one extra exam, you know.

What happens if we learn Hindi? There's no problem with that.

Wouldn't it cause exam pressure? That exam pressure helps us use our minds, doesn't it?

How many languages did you learn? At school, we learn three languages.

Which ones? Kannada, English, and Hindi.

This is Karnataka, isn't it? Kannada is enough. Why did you learn Hindi?

It comes in handy when you travel outside.

You can learn all three languages. Why learn Hindi? Isn't Kannada enough in Karnataka?

You'll need it again if you go to another state.

If we go to another state, we need to know it, don't we?

If someone goes to Bihar, you need a little English and Hindi, don't you?

Will Kannada work there? It won't work there.

They say learning Hindi is best. Even when you go to different places, you'll need Hindi, so learning it is best, sir.

That happens whenever we go somewhere else, sir.

Now, when you go to different states, people speak English.

Just as English is important now, Hindi is important too.

They speak Hindi. You've been to other places, where people speak it.

That's why we should know Hindi. It's good to learn Hindi.

It's good to learn three languages. It's good to learn more languages.

Why Hindi? Isn't Kannada enough in Karnataka?

Yes, wherever we go for work, we need it.

It's good to learn three languages, right?

If we go somewhere else, like Maharashtra...

We can speak their language. We've been to other places, but we couldn't speak it.

No, we have to learn three. Do we have to learn three?

Why do we need Hindi? It comes in handy when we go to different states.

It comes in handy. Why do we need Hindi? What's the use of learning it?

If we go somewhere else, we have to speak Hindi, right?

If we go to places like Maharashtra, Mumbai, or Delhi...

You have to speak Hindi, so you think you should learn it.

It's not just for that. It's very useful to us.

It's good to learn three languages now. It's even better to learn more than that.

Even more than that… if you learn more than that at school...

Wouldn't that cause exam pressure? Exam pressure makes our minds work, doesn't it?

It's a language, right? Learning a language is enough.

If you learn every language, you can go to every country and talk, right?

But what they're saying here now is... Just learn two languages.

They say, “Just learn Kannada and English,” right?

When they come, they can't do anything. That's why we can learn whichever language we like, right?

What do you think? Should children learn Hindi?

No, they should learn them. All languages should be included.

Because they travel around and go everywhere.

All languages should be included. If you go to another state, you can learn it and it'll be easy to talk.

What's good? What's good about it? So you can speak Hindi when you go somewhere else.

You can talk even if you go anywhere in the country.

You can talk even if you go anywhere in the country.

That's for general knowledge. To talk if you go to another state somewhere.

After going to another country, I couldn't speak.

No, I can speak. No, I mean, I... Whenever we go to Andhra Pradesh, they speak Hindi, that's why.

We know the Kannada language. When you go to different countries, you can speak it.

If you go to another country, speak English.

Some people there speak Hindi, don't they?

If you want to travel around here, you need KLL.

Only when you go to different places... You have to speak it.

Hindi works everywhere, doesn't it? So now KLL is needed. Hindi, yes.

That works everywhere. The language is used everywhere.

When you go to different countries, you have to speak Hindi.

You need to be able to speak it wherever you go.

Is there any benefit to learning more languages? Yeah?

Is it useful? It is. If they teach four languages at school now...

Nothing will happen. That just means more exams, doesn't it?

So what? Does that mean more exams? No, why should we learn Hindi?

If you go to other countries, you can speak it.

Hindi is useful when you go to another country.

People from other states come, don't they?

Then you can speak to them. No, to speak with people from other states.

Why should you have to take one more exam?

You’ve got too many exams, haven’t you? We’ve learned different things, new subjects.

Where do we live? Which state is ours? Karnataka. Which language is spoken in Karnataka?

First, Kannada. And at your school, is it enough to learn Kannada and English?

Why do we need Hindi? Hindi? We need it for general knowledge, and if we have to go out of state.

The reason we need Hindi is that in the future, we might go to another state, or somewhere else.

That language, along with English. Kannada is our mother tongue, okay.

We have learned it, we’ve learned it. But English, nowadays, in English- medium schools, they...

Even in government schools now, they teach English from LKG.

But Hindi, we don’t really... even now...

If they give grades instead of marks, we’ll keep neglecting it.

So I think Hindi should be compulsory for us.

We need Hindi for everything. These days, so many people in Bangalore are from different states.

So it's not just Kannada. When they say Kannada is ours, yes, it's our mother tongue.

But all languages are mandatory for us. We do give priority to Kannada, but...

Learn Hindi, Hindi is necessary. Additionally, we need both Hindi and English.

If we make every language a duty, do we have to go everywhere?

Knowing all the languages will help us later, then all of that...

It would help, right? Should children learn Hindi now?

They should learn it. They say, “Kannada is enough in Karnataka. Why Hindi?”

When we leave Karnataka and go elsewhere, we need Hindi, don't we?

If we go to some other country, Hindi... we need it to speak that way.

So, we'll need it. If everyone goes to another country now, everyone speaks Hindi. What do you all think?

Should you all learn Hindi? Hmm, you should.

Why should we learn Hindi when we go to other states now?

They don't speak Kannada there, they speak Hindi.

Wherever you go across the country, all the languages should be there, shouldn't they, sir?

I'm a driver now, sir. When I go outside, I should know at least a little of all kinds of languages.

Kannada is the main priority. Then English, then Hindi.

Because these three... If you know these languages, you can live anywhere, sir.

If you're asking which languages we should learn, then Kannada, English, and Hindi.

If we go out and need to do something in Hindi, then, these days...

In Maharashtra, they teach only Marathi, not all the languages.

We should learn Kannada too. If we go elsewhere to work now, we should learn all the languages.

Everyone needs to know some Hindi when they go outside.

When you go outside, you need Hindi. If you go to Hyderabad and places like that, they speak Hindi there.

Here, it's Kannada. If the government says, 'No Hindi, learn just two languages,' then what?

Is that okay? No, sir, we need Hindi too.

You need it to speak when you go to Maharashtra.

If you learn it, that's one more exam, right?

Yes, you'll write Hindi, and Hindi is famous in India, isn't it?

So you can speak Hindi, and then learn it too, the basics, so you can speak it when you go out.

You need Hindi when you go out. You need it for doing business there.

So you're learning it. Anyway, in India now, almost all the states use Hindi.

When we travel around, we use Hindi. Anyway, what do you think?

Do you think you should learn Hindi or not?

I should learn it. Why should I learn it?

If you go abroad, you need to speak to people there.

They say learning just two languages is enough, right?

They say Kannada and English are enough.

And when you go out, if you need to do some business or something…

Now, starting next year, we won't teach you Hindi at school. What would you think if we said that?

I'd go to another school. You'd go to another school?

Starting next year… We don't teach three languages. We teach just two.

We teach just Kannada and English. What do you think about that?

It feels bad. It feels bad. You'd have to take one more exam.

If you learn Hindi, what happens? There's no problem.

You have to write it. I'm learning it, you have to write it.

It won't cause you any tension. It gets harder, sir. Whenever they go somewhere else, they have problems, don't they? What...

Wouldn't it cause trouble? You have to write it. Do you write it again and again?

Yes. What's the trouble? There's no trouble, you have to write it.

You have to write it. There's no trouble.

You could write it, couldn't you? There's no trouble. No trouble.

Yeah, what if you wrote it? We write it, we do.

You write it? Hmm. What's the problem with writing it? Nothing will happen.

No, let it be. You say it's okay to let it be?

Hmm, we'll write it, we'll write it. There's no trouble, you know.

Education increases, doesn't it? Education increases.

It's okay even if there's one more exam. Education increases.

Yeah, if you know Hindi, then you'll have to pass one more exam now, won't you?

We'll manage, will you? Yeah. You'll pass the Hindi exam.

Yeah, we'll pass. We learned, we learned.

What's the problem? There's no problem. If they teach four languages now, even if they teach some other language, like Sanskrit, if they start, then you feel it's a good thing.

If they say, “Just learn two languages, that's enough,” is that okay?

No, we should learn everything— we have to learn it all.

Yeah, we can write it, what's the problem? There's no problem.

What's the problem? We'll manage. We'll write it, what's the problem? There's no problem.

The government made it so that I needed three languages.

That's how it is now.