Introduction:
Hindi is the first official language of India, alongside English, and is spoken as a lingua franca across the Indian subcontinent and Indian diaspora. Hindi is one of the world’s “Big Five” languages alongside English, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. More than one billion people speak it, and about half of those are native speakers, mostly in northern India. Hindi shares its roots with other Indo-Aryan languages such as Sanskrit, Urdu, and Punjabi, as well as Indo-Iranian and Indo-European languages spanning Tajik to Pashto to Serbo-Croatian to English. Knowing even basic Hindi, whether for heritage, business, or pure curiosity, will allow you to communicate with nearly 1.5 billion people on this planet and become immersed in a rich language and culture.
Hindi can be written in the Latin alphabet, which is great for learners, but you should invest the time to learn the Devanagari script. You’ll learn a lot of Sanskrit words when learning Hindi too. The simplest way to learn any language is to be consistent and dedicated to studying and practicing that language. Luckily Hindi is one of the most popular languages of the world with nearly 1.5 billion speakers, so you have enough people to practice Hindi with!