I'm Punjabi, but can't speak the language, help?

I was born in the UK and my parents brought me up to speak Urdu (national language of Pakistan) as that's what most young people there speak and is common. But my parents speak to each other in Punjabi, so I understand it but I'm just so nervous I'll mix up words and sound stupid trying to speak Punjabi. How can I perfect the language?

I just feel so proud of my Punjabi heritage and feel annoyed I can't speak my mother tongue


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What a load of nonsense! So your saying people can't learn languages if they want to ? So your saying when they teach us Spanish or French in school they're "colonising" Britain with immigrant legacy . Seriously?! People can learn whatever language they like .

yeah I understand which accent your talking about as that is the proper form of Punjabi and btw where are u from back home? xx

From Lahore, but pre-partition my family's from Ludhiana. You?

Ignore the other poster and keep learning Pashto and Arabic

I've heard others speak them

With Pashto however you will have to choose a dialect e.g. Peshawari Pashto because the accents in Pashto are different so kha would mean good but the softer sha would also mean good.

Okay so curry is from India and exists here and is enjoyed by everyone! That's a form of colonialism , shall we stop making curry for the British public ?

Pashto is quite easy to pick up in terms of vocab and grammar rules, it's just that it's unrepresented in the media which is why most people haven't heard of it.

I'm a Polpo.

I'm joking, I apologise ( and I mean no offense at all) but I don't feel comfortable revealing my ethnicity online for personal reasons, however if you would like to learn Pashto a new website is coming up called Pashtunology (just type in google) and a very helpful established website exists called www.thepashto.com

My dads side is from Punjab -Jhelum but Mums side from Mirpur that's why I know how to speak both accents loooool but like don't your brothers/sisters or mates speak Punjabi? xxxx

I'm from a really white area and there's not many Asians on my course at uni, who I'm mates with at least.

My sister can speak it, but I'm just used to speaking to her in English lol

I was born in the UK and my parents brought me up to speak Urdu (national language of Pakistan) as that's what most young people there speak and is common. But my parents speak to each other in Punjabi, so I understand it but I'm just so nervous I'll mix up words and sound stupid trying to speak Punjabi. How can I perfect the language?

I just feel so proud of my Punjabi heritage and feel annoyed I can't speak my mother tongue


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Why did my posts get deleted?

But I didn't say anything offensive

Oh well thanks for helping me,শুভরাত্রি

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