Marathi

[lemonfirefly]

I have checked the India tag but did not see something like this, but apologies if this is a duplicate. Also apologies if my focus is too narrow

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[shanrina]

I don't speak Marathi, but one of the best things I did when I started learning Hindi was to watch a LOT of movies and listen to a LOT of music. I listened to both the songs and the dialogues and mimic the pronunciation and rhythm of their speech, which helped a lot. I don't really know much about Marathi films except that they exist, but there should be songs on YouTube, although the only one I know of off the top of my head is Kombadi Palali. As my languge skills improved, I started transcribing and translating songs from the movies to help cement vocab in my brain. No reason you couldn't do that with Marathi as well.

The best way to get to conversational competency, IMO, is to find someone to have conversations with once you get the basic grammar down. If you're more interested in reading (which I'm assuming not because you specifically said conversational competency), then look for Marathi newspapers. Start with either simple articles or articles about something you're already familiar with, and then branch out more as your vocab and reading fluency improve. Good luck!

[lemonfirefly]

I have family I can attempt to converse with, so that will be doable, and I'll probably try to set up a regimen of incremental learning in the meantime, but the resource situation is quite dire until I bridge the early gaps somehow. I have some songs and will look for more when I have the time. I will need to figure out how to get past the initial hurdle into the point where it would be possible to transcribe parts. :/ But yes, media will definitely be a resource I further pursue when applicable! Although I shouldn't completely undersell myself, I suppose, as I was able to figure out "Shyamchi aai" (title only!), so, baby steps. ;)