Meet Hindi Language

Hindi is an Indoeuropean language that is an official language of Republic of India. Today more than 200 MILLION people can speak Hindi. It is also the language of Bollywood films.

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It is commonly misunderstood that Hindi is a very difficult language to learn. Actually, if you are a native speaker of any of the Indoeuropean language, it should be easier than learning Chinese, Turkish or any other non-Indoeuropean language - even though it might sound very "exotic" to you. 

It has developed from Sanskrit - an ancient language such as Greek and Latin but, however, still has native speakers! So, you see - what is Latin to Spanish, exactly the same is Sanskrit to Hindi - a parent :) Native Hindi speakers will not have much problems with understanding Sanskrit as much as native speakers of Slavic languages will not have problems with understanding Old Slavonic and native speakers of Roman languages - Latin. If you are a native speaker of, for example, any of the Slavic languages and you had to learn Latin at school - you can understand Roman languages easier. The point is, Indoeuropean languages follow almost the same rules and their constructions will be somewhat very similar. There is no need to be scared of Hindi just because you do not have an opportunity to hear it on the TV very often - being an Indoeuropean language, it is already closer to your own mother tongue than other "exotic" languages.

Hindi is written in Devanagari script. A very old script whose tracks we can follow all the way to Aramaic script. Today it is officially used for writing Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit language. In this article you can learn more about this Indian Script : DEVANAGARI. It is really fun to learn! There are many tutorials on how to write and read Devanagari. Also there are many tutorials about Hindi understanding the Hindi grammar. There are not many, however, tutorials on building Hindi vocabulary so from time to time we will try to work on that topic over here as well :)

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Here are some tips on how to build up your Hindi vocabulary - Building up your Hindi vocabulary!

Hindi Language