**Since i’m pretty bad in Urdu and Punjabi I still try my best to communicate with my uncles when I see them. Sometimes I just stick to English but then I start sounding like Miles’ posts which is a suicidal. If I speak proper English i’ll probably come off as a cocky Amrikkan. When I speak in a foreign language I sound like Jose who just came to the states last week. What does an ABCD gotta do?:halo: **
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Try doing both.
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:Salute:
:)
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Just try to speak in ur tooti pooti urdu/punjabi, and switch to english when you dont know how to say something, they'll appreciate the effort.
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well i do that and normally its very funny:hehe:
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Just speak in the language that you feel comfortable with. They should understand, and not judge you.
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An ABCD gotta start from ABCD & finish at "Z". In simple words, it would be appropriate to learn ur parental language, its always better to have an extra language as a skill.
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If someone initiate convorsation in english with ABCD then they whine the cheapster/paindo is trying to impress them with his/her broken english 
And if you talk with them in urdu then half of it goes above their head 
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What's an ABCD?
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I started talking in a little urdu with my parents since the past year or 2 and now I've gotten better. I felt kinda silly doing it at first but then I got kinda used to it. :)
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well its the parents fault ..they should tell us about our native language too:naraz: now i am in lahore..some of my cousins know perfect english .but some dont..one of my cousin is really good but he ignores me as he thinks i am not a proper pakistani:(
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Natalia, there's some audio CD's and books available for beginners like yourself that are available at all good book stores in Lahore.
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ahan an ABCD seems to be havin probs with speaking urdu and punjabi BUT amazingly can write urdu perfectly …:rolleyes:
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didnt tera dulha make this thread somewhere on here?
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my cousins are all doing their BA in English but tehy dunno a word of it 
I’ve never spoekn anything but urdu/punjabi when I went to Pak..i used to think i was pretty gud at it until I went to college and everyone started laughign at my accent 
I rarely speak urdu/punjabi xcept with parents, it takes a very special person to hear me speak anotehr language 
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so dear is there any problem in that yes i agree i write well with the help of my mom:)
why are you burning up 
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your dulha also comes here:konfused:
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thanx buddy i went to CLASSIC book Gallery and i find a very good stuff there:)
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it was this very bad habit of mine that whenever we sisters fought we used to shout and scream only in english 
my parents took serious notice of this and told us to speak urdu
but then again at school when anything went wrong all i could utter was a few words in english .. i was humane :halo:
i think english is a decent language . yet it is cultured that after the harsh words you can say sorry
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Immigration Officer I take it.