Learning Hindi #1

Well …this post I will write it in English. Usually I posted new post using Bahasa Indonesia, but now I want to mix it.

This post is about my Hindi Learning process. A few days back I ask to my friend to teach me Hindi. It is complete three years I am here in India but until now I cannot speak in Hindi. Actually sometime my friends teach me some Hindi words, but because of I was not in proper concentration to learn it so those words not stay in my mind and also because of not regularly practice to pronounce that words make me easy to forget.

From this week I make a plan to regularly learning Hindi. The first day my friend teach me Hindi is on Monday 18 August 2017. I learned some words and sentence that used in daily conversation. It was very interesting learning. Actually I always like to learn new language. For examples about 2016 I learned Javanese language. I was very lucky that my neighbor happily tought me this language.

Now I am lucky also because my friend with pleasure teach me. Actually most of my friend like to help me to learn local language, I mean not only Hindi but also Kannada and Malayalam. Here I am staying in Karnataka so my friend more speaks Kannada language. Many also speaks Malayalam especially for them who are from Kerala.

Actually I have to learn Kannada first, because I live and study in society using Kannada language. As medical student absolutely during the internship I have to meet the patient and I must able to speak in their language. Because here in India not all people speaks Hindi even though Hindi is the national language.

Learning Hindi is easiest according to me. Why? First, Hindi and my language have many similar words. My language is Bahasa Indonesia. I don’t know exactly why there are many similar words between Hindi and Bahasa Indonesia. May be because of culture relation. Some example of similar words such as topi, kursi, sabar, akal, etc.

Second, Hindi is the national language. So wherever I go in India this language will help me communicate to the people, even though English is enough because mostly Indian people speaks English.

Third, this is the serious thing. In classroom while teaching our lecturer using English but outside of class some of them will speaks to me in Hindi as well as in Kannada. Example: my Rasa Shastra lecturer will always use Hindi when talks to me, even he knows that I am not understand Hindi.

Well that is about my Hindi study. Hope it will be continuous.