Kannada with Devanagari Script

I share your experience. In some of the foreign countries I’ve been to, reading the signs was easier because it was in Latin script. I am bad with languages, and could never speak the words, but at least I could make out the signs on bus routes, etc.

To the folks who think learning the local language is easy, I can assure you that it’s not. It’s overwhelming to those of us who haven’t learned any of the scripts used in south India. I can speak some words in Kannada, but the script is still beyond me.

I should also add that I can’t read or write my mother tongue because I never learnt it in school/growing up.

I’ve been in a few non-English speaking countries. The resentment against the (perceived) imposition and increases use of English is common in those countries as well.

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