Marathi ukhane for male: R/ marathi

r/ marathi : मराठी हे सब-रेडिट सर्व मराठी लोकांसाठी आहे. जर तुम्हाला ... The population of Maharashtra was 112m in 2011, I refuse to believe that only 77m speak Marathi as a first language in Maharashtra. 70% of the population lives in villages where everyone speaks Marathi . I can understand Marathi but cannot speak Marathi , even though my father is a Maharashtrian. I lived outside Maharashtra for most of my youth and have lived in areas where Marathi wasn't spoken even when I was in Maharashtra (dad was in the army and later on we lived in areas where defence personnel stay in large numbers). The best way to learn Marathi is two-fold : Read a Marathi book (learning the script is easy if you can speak, read and write Hindi) Speak broken Marathi with your Marathi friends, pick up on their pronunciation and slangs. Keep speaking broken Marathi without any hesitation or qualms about grammar.