I have an Indian neighbor :)

hello mtrguanlao, Well I have many Indian friends offline and online but not all of them can be friendly it depends on the person you are lucky that they are friendly with you . There is one Indian guy here at my place who use to call me Darling and Maganda (pretty) every morning if he see me he will greet me and smile at me I think he is living here for good because of the business. But some Indians are not like him some of them are snobbish and unfriendly maybe it depends upon the person and not upon the nationality. You want to learn hindi? I can give you free basic tutorial By the way India has many dialects so you must know which dialect they are using In addition I have an Indian bestfriend and her parents adores me much have a great day!

Thanks for appreciating Indians. I think her daughter's name is Iza that is why she calls your daughter by this name as she misses her daughter. One of the most common word of greeting in Hindi language is "Namaste" which means hello. You can say her "Namaste" when you meet her and even when you want to say her goodbye. It is good to note that you both are having good nature and you are making friends with each other. Hope you will enjoying your newly made friendship with this new neighbor of yours. Good Luck.

Its nice to read your post and your interest in Indians. I am an Indian too, may be the lady doesn't really learned the English at her home as many Indians now know enough English to communicate with outsiders. You have been asking the Hindi translation of what is the name of your daughter? to her it seems, daughter is referred to as beti, you can pronounce it as betty but with "a" sound like in mate and no stress on 't' and for her daughter you can use aap ki that means yours and name is pronounced as naam and what is "kya" . So the whole sentence become "aap ki beti ka naam kya hai? " hopefully she understands Hindi to communicate as in Kannad as the family seems to be from south its a total different language. Though I think she is referring your daughter as daughter that is beti in her language. In some parts beti is synonym of iza, like you so dear daughter, a term of affection. actually I feel at times love needs no language to communicate. You do have a special bond with each other.

It is great to encounter people from other cultures; there is so much we can learn from each other! When we first arrived in Australia from Italy we met a Spanish family. Neither family could speak English yet and, although Italian and Spanish are somewhat similar languages we too used a lot of sign language in order to communicate. It was lovely because we all became friends regardless of the language barrier. My mother learnt a lot of Spanish recipes from her friend. We eventually lost touch and it is such a shame…My daughter’s school has a diversity of cultures enrolled there and I think it’s fantastic!

Well, I don't have a bad comments to Indian. Because all Indians, that I know are good. We have an Indian, before and there daughter always come into our house to play with the kids and we give them food like candies. There parents also give something to my kids... But sorry, friend. I don't know how to speak Indian language. Because our neighbor know how to speak tagalog...that is why no problem about it.

hello cute kid, I have a lot and lots of Indian friends who really loves me in the real essence. I've known them for 5 years and our friendship is getting closer and even consider as family and not simply as friends. One Indian friend is an owner of a famous Indian restaurant here and me and my friends sometimes hesitate to eat and dine in his restaurant because he always give us big discount...but he get's sad when we decline his invitation to dine in his restaurant. Even here in mylot...i can not count those INDIAN's who i can trust and really considered as real people and not pretenders....(i hope so...as i am also real to them) I will attached our pictures here too....

Hello Dear mtrguanlao! I am from India and unfortunately I don't have any neighbor with me as I am staying on a farm meant for race horses! I am Resident Stud Vet which means that I need to stay on the farm all 24 hours through out the year except for the time when I am on my vacation or weekly offs (which I seldom can avail for work pressure!) So I stay in a farm house of the farm and there is no body near by me. But then i get lot of opportunity to meet with many foreigners as we are dealing with thoroughbreds (racing horses). But then I don't have any problem with them as all of them specking English as they are either coming from UK, Ireland, USA or Australia! I love the picture of your cute daughter Crystal's picture! She is pretty and very jolly natured child, I believe! I am just posting this response to keep this discussion of yours in my responded discussion's category so that I can return back to this discussion from time to time as I find this discussion an interesting one and I am really curious to know what is the language that is spoken by your neighbors and ow you are going to tackle the problem! all the best! Thanks !

hi mtrguanlao hi I don't have an indian neighbor but when I w s back in Tustin we had an Indian man and his wife in our diabetes support group they were middle aged and spoke better English than I an American born' in the U.S. Shiv was his first name and they had lived here in the US for several years.He was so knowledgeable about herbs and herbal medications, and I learned a lot from him and his wife.We became very good friends with Shiv and his wife and when our support group dwindled we ,including I and my friend Nelda, Alice and her daughter and Shivand his wife then met in Burger King twice a month on Wednedays. we all talked about our various diabetes and how we were handling it. they were such a devoted couple I was amazed that their marriage was arranged but they admitted they had had their eyes on each other since they were in their teens so were thrilled when their parents arranged for the two of them to be married to each other. I miss our meetings with them as they were really very good friends of mine. I am now in Garden Grove in this retirement center.

Hi. mtrguanlao. I have never had a foreign neighbor live near me before. I have lived near foreign people though. Around the corner from my grandmother's house is an apartment complex, and many Mexicans live out there. There once was nothing but African Americans that resided there in the past, but now mostly, the entire apartment complex is filled with Mexicans. I have stayed in a motel for a couple of months and most of the Indians own these cheap motels. They are quiet and mostly to themselves. They can be nice and some of them can be very mean. I don't know how to speak the Indian language, but I do like the way that they speak, I just can't understand just what they are saying though. I hope that you enjoy the company of being around your new neighbor.

Hi amiga.. Very true that Indians are friendly and helpful. If i would be there than i also do the same as her smile is too cute to fascinate anyone. I already told you that she is my love.... If she knows Hindi, Bengali, Assamese and Nepali... then i can help you amiga. Just ask her first. Well, i have no foreign neighbor here. Have a great day amiga.

Wow, its great to see that you both have developed a sign language just to talk to each other, i bet she would be a great company if she knew your language. I am indian too and i'm friendly as well, though not so scoial !! :D Those people aren't there for permanent right? cous i can't imagine living in some other country without knowing their language and without having anyone to talk to, so i'm glad you are her neighbor. :p If she is north indian, she speaks hindi, that is the only language i can help you with :) and if she is south indian then really i don't know, people in india speak so manyyyy languages. :s so for start just ask her if she is north indian or south indian? like as her in sign language hindi??? :p kannada? marathi? bengali? assamese? :p something like that. and welll some hindi words you can say are - how are you?- kaise ho? come in- andar aajaiye friend- dost actually i don't know which words i should translate, so it'd be good if you could tell me which words i should translate for you. :p

Hi there! Here in Malaysia we lives with multiple races and Indian is in one of the main races here besides Malay and Chinese and other minority races. My neighbor is Indian and I also have Indian friends and they are all nice people~ Yes they do speak their mother tongue but it is not hard to get socialized as our official language is Malay. We can speak in English to each other as well~ It is good to have friends from different cultures, races or even countries~

Hi my sweet friend Several foreigners actually, though I can't say Indians but many of several different cultures of the Hispanic countries. Amazing that though I am very fluent in the Spanish language am amazed on the different Spanish languages there are. Actually this is how I found out that there were different languages in the Hispanic cultures, was by living next to some and so amazing on how one word actually meant different to the different cultures. I read through all the responses and your comments and see that it is the same for the Indian culture as well. That they have so many different languages but to put it simply all are loving humans no matter what cultures we are.

I lived in India for 3 years! I agree with you, on the whole they are very friendly, hospitable people. Even if they have nothing, they will do their best for you. I was the guest of a very poor family who insisted on making me a meal even though that evening it meant they would go without! On my travels, people often wanted me to share their meals.

We won't be having foreigners as neighbors mostly but we Indians itself have many difference in languages through various states , so we will be having some troubles in speaking with them !

I used to have a half-indian classmate in high school. Really friendly...:)

Hi mtrguanlao i am an INDIA.It happens when someone has lost his child he sees image of his child in every child.This is why they like your baby but really should say it they were Americans also they would have loved you daughter because your daughter is really lovable as i can see in the pics. This is true INDIANS are friendly.They easily get adapted anywhere so easily because of their honesty & simplicity. They may talk to you in sign language because they may not be knowing ENGLISH as in INDIA we have a basic problem we don't really give girls more chance to get education but the trend now is changing. May be if you help you neighbors they will learn ENGLISH and talk to you in your language in few days.