How easy is it to learn Hindi for Indians?

Hindi is a branch Indo-Aryan of the Indo-European language family, also known as Khadi Boli, Khari Boli. More than 258M people speak it mainly as a first language in North and Central India.  It is the language that unites India, which consists of about 400 languages/dialects. It is spoken in  Singapore, Sint Maarten (Czech Republic), South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Yemen, Zambia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, Canada, Yibouti, Equatorial Guinea and Germany. This wide range makes the Hindi language one of the most spoken languages.

Hindi is specifically spoken in the northern part of the Indian country. As an Indian, Hindi is going to be easy for you to master. Now when it comes to how easy it is going to be, it depends on what your native language is. Most of the northern languages of India are somewhere connected to Hindi, therefore, if you belong to the northern part of the Indian country then Hindi might be a little easier for you to master than compared to someone who speaks a language from the southern part of India.

For example, if you speak Punjabi as your native language, Hindi is going to be a little easier to master. On the other hand, if you speak Tamil as your native language, then Hindi is definitely not going to be as easy to master. Some would argue with this notion that all Indian languages can find their roots in the mother of all these languages which is Sanskrit. To keep it pretty simple with you the only similarity between Hindi and Sanskrit is the Devangiri script they follow. In my opinion, the writing skill of Hindi is going to be a little tough for you to master when compared to the speaking skills. Similarly, the reading skills are going to be much tougher to master than the listening skills.

In fact, if you speak any Indian language natively, then you’re most certainly going to pick up on speaking and listening quite quickly but you are definitely going to need some time to master the writing and reading. Finally, let’s not forget that a lot of the words which are commonly used in all the Indian languages are borrowed from one another. Therefore, you might find a few words in Hindi that could be either borrowed from your language or your language might have borrowed them from Hindi. Looking for such similarities and mastering those, will speed up your process of mastering Hindi in the long run.

Scholars postulate that the Hindi speech about Dehli, adopted by the Moslem invaders to communicate with the local population in the 8th to the 10th centuries, was developed from Khari Boli. It eventually became a variation called Urdū (from Turk ordu ‘camp’), which was characterised as a literary language by several leases from Arabic and Persian. Meanwhile, the indigenous language has remained relatively free from Persian and Arabic borrowings, instead of taking on Sanskrit words and literary conventions. It was Hindi that language. Click here to know more about some amazing Hindi classes.