Meera

I disagree compleatly, Hindi will not go away anytime soon. Actually I think it's growing, for example I know people from Nepal,Guyana, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who can communicate in basic Hindi from watching Hindi movies. Also I'm not sure about in India, but here in the United States I meet many Marathi's, Gujarati, and Punjabi's that can speak Hindi and use it to speak with other Indians. We are also forgetting that Hindi and Urdu spoken are mutually intelligible and Urdu is deffintly not going any time soon in Pakistan. Hindi and Urdu both has tons of media, has a lot of literature and has over 200 million speakers. I see Hindi getting more important instead of declining. Also both Hindi and Urdu are on the United States Critical languages list and is offered at a lot of big universties here, so I really don't think it will go extinct.

It's hard for me to understand, but I love the French from Africa, I think it sounds so beautiful!

I actually just got done watching The Intouchables, and it was great. Very light hearted and makes you happy after you watched it.

I keep learning French because I had it for four years in school. I was allowed to pick from Spanish, German and French and I honestly don't know why I took French, I think big reason was beacuse everyone was taking Spanish and I wanted to be in smaller class and I think my gudiance consuleor told me German was really hard so I ended up with French

Yeah it's really difficult to understand Rajasthani especially when it is above basic sentances, I can't make out anything.

No problem, I hope you like the books!

For me, Speaking. But I'm shy in general so speaking to natives makes me nervous.

NHK Hindi http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/hindi/top/index.html CRI Hindi http://hindi.cri.cn/ SBS Hindi http://www.sbs.com.au/podcasts/yourlanguage/hindi/

Hello Everyone, these are sites for just learning Hindi. Script Websites for learning Hindi script. Avashay-Hindi Script Tutor http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm This is a great site that has how to write Hindi Script and pronounce Devanagari. Devanagari http://www.garretwilson.com/education/languages/hindi/devanagari/ Hindi Teacher http://www.bharatdarshan.co.nz/BD-static/hinditeacher/ Beginner Websites A Door into Hindi http://taj.chass.ncsu.edu/ Virtual Hindi http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/hindi/ LILA Hindi http://lilappp.cdac.in/ HindiPod101 http://www.hindipod101.com/index.php Ispeak Hindi http://www.ispeakhindi.com/ Namaste Dosti http://learnhindipodcast.blogspot.com/ Digital Dialects http://www.digitaldialects.com/Hindi.htm Language Reef http://www.languagereef.com/alphabets.php?lang=HINDI Intermediate Websites GLOSS Hindi http://gloss.dliflc.edu/Default.aspx Hindi Readings http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/mindex.html

I'm using it now for French and I really like it. I just wish it had more languages. But from using it I have seen a huge improvement in my French!

I have tried most of these methods for Hindi. I went through a whoel phase where besides school and talking to my friends and family, I tried to everything in Hindi. I have Hindi tv channels and that would be the only thing I watched, along with Hindi movies only, I also only tried to do Hindi websites (which was hard because most of my favorite websites don't have Hindi versions. There were a couple problems while doing this. The first one was,(which probably wouldn't happen with Japanese) is that Hindi speakers on TV/Radio/Movies almost always mix english in. So no matter what you are watching you will probably hear English sometimess. This didn't happen as much with the Indian serials on tv, but still when it went to comerical, most of them would be in English. It wasn't a huge problem though and it was still useful. Another problem I had with this method, is although its great for vocabulary, pronuciation and pretty much everything else, it's bad for grammar. Although I was starting to pick up grammar naturally, still in my grammar there is a lot of mistakes. I have a few grammar books now trying to correct this problem. I would be able to regonize and understand some of the harder grammar using this method, but trying to produce it was difficult. Besides these two things, I think this method is great for learning any language. I think it would be hard to do for some languages though, because some languages there just isn't engough in it to do something like this. For example, here in the United States I think it would be very hard to find Swahili TV.

Very useful phrases! Thanks for these everyone!

Thanks, caparica007!

I haven't started Japanese yet but I really would like to learn it one day or attempt to learn it. Actually I'm confused between Japanese, Chinese and Korean because I like all three of them. But I really do like Japanese culture and would love to visit Japan one day. I like Japanese music and JDramas also

I haven't seen many French films. But of the ones I have seen my favorite was Amelie. I also liked Au Revoir les enfants, Le Placard, and La vie en Rose.

बहुत शुक्रिया। (I'm not sure how to change the tittle though?)

I'm not entirely sure, but I think that Sanskrit is used for a lot of Hindu relegious cermonies. It's also (I think) what most Hindu scriptures were written in, I know it can be translated but I guess it doesn't give the same meaning. I'm not sure about Europe but here in the United States some schools still do have an option to take Latin.

Haha thanks ashwinr!

Yes, it is Asin. Yeah,it's true, Bollywood was huge and still is huge in Afghanistan. I think I can safely say that most Afghans like to watch Bollywood

Hello everyone! My name is Meera. I'm orginally from Afghanistan but I live in the United States now, in Philadelphia. I love learning languages, my biggest interest is Hindi and other South Asian languages, but I am also interested in Arabic, Turkish, Indonesian and Farsi and French. I also have an interest in the east asian languages liek Japanese, Chinese and Korean but I haven't studdied any of them yet

Thanks for the link, Czarownica, it seems really helpful. I always thought Hangul was beautiful and I have always wanted to learn Korean.

For me, it has been Arabic. Well Modern Standard Arabic, the grammar is very hard, the prounciation takes a lot of practice to get right and it's just a nightmar. Plus, all Arabs speak a local dialect so if you only speak MSA and go to Egypt or Morroco you won't understand anything. Another language that was hard for me was Armenian, not becaue of the language but because sources were so hard for me to find on it.

Hello everyone this topic is too add links to Hindi News sites and other websites for reading in Hindi. BBC Hindi http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/ Daily news in Hindi Aaj Tak News A news site from India that is in Hindi. Bhaskar Daily http://www.bhaskar.com/ Daily Hindi Newspaper ABP News http://abpnews.newsbullet.in/ (A news site and tv channel news channel) This will get us started for now, I will add more later and if anyone has any others to share please do!

Hello everyone. I think listening to the radio is a great way at practicing langauge skills so I thought to post some of my favorite Hindi radio stations I listen too. Radio Asia http://www.tvasiausa.com/ This is a local radio station around me, that broadcasts in both Hindi and English. (To find the radio look at the top right corner) Mere Sangeet http://www.merasangeet.com/ This radio mostly broadcasts in Hindi, and I think it is based in the USA. Desi Radio http://www.desi-radio.com/ (This plays Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi music) BBC Asian Network http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork This is an awesome station, it broadcasts in English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujurati. It is sometimes offline, but you can always listen to past shows.) Bombay Beats http://www.1.fm/Station/BombayBeats/Default.aspx This radio plays non stop Hindi and Punjabi music. NjGuyana http://guyananj.com/ This radio plays non stop Hindi oldies. Apna Radio http://apnaradio.com/ Radio Azaad http://radioazad.us/ Kismaat Radio http://www.kismatradio.com/ I will add some more later, but I hope you guys enjoy these

मैं हिंदी सिख रही हूँ क्योंकि हिंदी बहुत सुन्दर है और हिंदुस्तानी संस्कृती बहुत दिलचस्प और खुबसूरत है. मुझे भी बॉलीवुड पसंद है और मैं सोचती हूँ की हिंदी संगीत सबसे अच्छा है!