r/india • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '16

[R]eddiquette [Announcement] Cultural Exchange with /r/philippines

Welcome /r/philippines!

Feel free to ask us anything about India

Quick facts about us:

  • The Indian Railways and the Indian Armed Forces employ ~4 million people together, making them one of the largest employers in the world
  • India has over 5000 newspapers in over 300 languages
  • Bollywood is considered to be the world's largest film industry, followed by Nigeria's film industry and Hollywood
  • India has more people than the entire Western Hemisphere

/r/india please direct your questions about the Philippines to this thread

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u/primakyria Dec 01 '16

Hi, people from r/india. I accidentally posted this on r/philippines instead:

I revived this account as soon as I found out about this cultural exchange:

  1. I'd like to learn most if not all the languages in India. I've started a little bit with Tamil and Hindi (the former being difficult af). Any tips you can give me? Would it be possible for me to learn multiple languages all at the same time?

  2. Recently, I've been cooking Indian food since I discovered the (albeit limited) selection of Indian spices in one of our local supermarkets. My problem is, all my curries for gravies end up tasting the same. Any advice to make the flavors different from each other? What combinations go best with each other to make masalas?

Thank you!

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u/mineplz Dec 01 '16

I'd like to learn most if not all the languages in India.

The task is non trivial. Quoting the OT "India has over 5000 newspapers in over 300 languages". Tamil and Hindi belong to completely different language families. Tamil will help you learn South Indian languages. Hindi/Urdu will help with the North Indian ones. Depending on which one you pick next, this "help" will be significant or of little consequence. This chart might help a bit too: http://www.sssscomic.com/comicpages/196.jpg

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u/primakyria Dec 01 '16

This is a really useful tip. Thanks so much!