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Re:India’s lost 220 languages in past 50 years by winter_blue on Sunday August 18, 2013 @07:21PM (#6234712)
> The English language is structurally much more free, and easy to pick up than a language such as hindi ...

What do you mean by structure here? (If you could give me pointers to Wikipedia article / other articles on what entails the structure of a languages as you describe it, that would be good.)

> they would speak it well.

That could be achieved with education. In the US, there's quite a heavy emphasis on English. College entrance exams (the SAT, the GRE, etc.) test you on English more than anything else. And communication underpins to a significant extend, one's success in almost any field.

Re:India’s lost 220 languages in past 50 years by kaidajekri on Friday August 23, 2013 @06:23AM (#6262622)
The dialect of Indian English takes some grammatical structure from other Indian languages. Some sentences may not be considered technically correct by British English or American English speakers, but are perfectly acceptable by Indian English standards. Some words or terms may have different usages, and pronunciation may differ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English#Divergent_usage