A person from Bengaluru shared a sad event on Reddit, asking people to be kind and understanding to them from the hindi language belt. The incident, which took place in the city's isro setup, involved a North indian pineapple supplier facing a customer's ire for not knowing the local language.
"Can we do better?" wrote a Bangalorean in Reddit's "Bangalore" forum. In this post, the user talked about a recent incident. The incident happened after a Redditor bought a pineapple from a North indian vendor in the city's isro facility. A woman approached the seller and asked the price of the pineapples. "40 ka ek [a piece of 40 rupees]" and "100 ka 3 [100 rupees for three pieces]," replied the seller. The woman, not knowing him, asked him to repeat the words several times. Then the Redditor intervened and explained in kannada what the customer was saying.
Instead of thanking the Redditor or placing an order, the woman accused the customer of not knowing Kannada. The customer responded by apologizing and explaining that he was only in town for a week and was about to learn the language.
After the Reddit post was taken down, one person said, “Everyone in Bangalore is sad these days. What happens to a bad customer? There are no tools to learn a new language. North indians can do the least. "The behavior of the upper class."
Despite the "study Canada" buzz I've seen around town, I've seen a reluctance to engage in doing so. I visited several bookstores and there were no books for learning Kannada. However, there are many english textbooks. I know I can access the internet and learn through an e-course, but what about an unauthorized person who doesn't have access to the internet and doesn't know how to speak english properly? I have yet to see any physical notices for speech classes. The locals want the immigrants to wake up one day from the disaster and be able to speak, as if they were born and raised here. When I ask my colleagues about a language learning resource, they tell me that they know a lot about English. So tell me, where is the motivation, access and opportunity to learn? He knocked on another door.
The third wrote: “Here. I am 9 years old in Bangalore and I can't learn kannada except kannada Guthila. I have been in Ankal for three months, and now I know most of it and speak a broken part. I knew that everyone in Bangalore wants you to learn kannada, but they don't want to learn anything. On the other hand, if I had stayed in chennai that long, I would have rapped like a tamil man.”