"Going to Maharashtra, I felt like a stranger has come to the world"

In 11 years in Katni, I have never spoken to anyone nor heard anything from anyone other than Hindi and English. Although it is still known that while living in Madhya Pradesh, Malvi and Bengali also used to speak but it did not cause much trouble.

Madhya Pradesh has never encountered such ambivalence about language, but in Maharashtra, Marathi is everything. Especially for those who have been living here for the last several years or since birth. The Marathi of some people is so big that all things will go away from you and you will just keep looking at their faces because you are not going to understand anything. If you try to understand something by mistake then the meaning will be lost.
In such a situation, only two things can happen. You can take help from a Marathi friend or they can be requested to speak Hindi. Both methods are a bit difficult, but my efforts are still on. Do not know how long it will take, but it is okay to say that at least Marathi will start to understand well, yet everyday one gets to hear something that has never been encountered before.
I thought I was in a strange world
In the beginning, I felt as if you do not know which stranger has come in the world because people around do a lot of things but do not understand whether they are being praised or being made fun of. Don't stress your mind, yet you don't understand and both ears are constantly on alert. No one knows, so my gestures were such that yes I understand everything.
Never leave your friend, but you cannot leave because you can work and you have to talk to learn something new. It is not that people speak only in Marathi. People often speak in Hindi language too, but just as much is needed, then start with people in Marathi, then my work is becoming more and more like Dhaka kha-kha, then I started learning Marathi. . Learn a few words about food before companions. For example, how to ask for food, whether food is prepared or not, what people have eaten, and much more.

It is a matter of course that as Marathi came to understand, it started to look good. There are some words that look good only in Marathi and you will understand them only after learning Marathi.

When you periodically grow into infinite lines,
As long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So it lasts for a long time and it gives you life.
-ashutosh dubey public speaker

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