German is cool and shit, but it is basically English with a different lexicon.
I learned a little bit of Hindi back in the day, and it was interesting as fuck. They don't have any articles in that language. Articles as in the part of speech, like a, an, the. Totally off the wall.
And all their references to time use the same word for the future as the past. Like "Kal" means tomorrow, but also yesterday? There are definitely certain context clues that let you know what time they are referring to, but I never got that far.
I'd like to learn Swahili, so I could know how much more retarded their language is.
Thing I thought most interesting about Hindi was their script is very literal. If it’s written a certain way it’s pronounced exactly that way.
Another is only one corner speaks, reads and writes formal hindi. The rest use and know it but if you ask or use formal hindi they don’t know wtf you’re talking about.
So if you actually book learn hindi. 80% of the formal grammar and words and technicality of the language you won’t see or be understood in 75% of the country.
So if you actually book learn hindi. 80% of the formal grammar and words and technicality of the language you won’t see or be understood in 75% of the country.
10% of casual Hindi communication has to consist of English at this point.
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