how hard is it to learn hindi/urdu?

Answer 1

Not too difficult, I'd say.

I've an Outsourced Office in India and am learning it right now.

The Grammar is similar to Spanish and so are many words there.

Here are a few links to free online Hindi Tutorials, to help you along!

http://www.open-of-course.org/hindi-beginners-course-4.html
http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html#hindi
http://utopianvision.co.uk/hindi/

All the best.

Cheers!

Simon Templar

Answer 2

From a practical aspect, watch Hindi movies with english subtitles. Hindi is much easier than Urdu, however if you understand hindi, you will get 60 % urdu. Hindi easy to read with many numbers resembling english but Urdu is hard to read.

In indian languages, words are easily mixed and merged, as well as recreated in a sentence.

Answer 3

Sorry to be a bit less positive than other posters, but to learn Hindi/Urdu is actually quite difficult for the average English-speaker, at least at the level of pronunciation - it is necessary to distinguish between whole bunches of sonds that have no equivalent in English. Although it is an Indo-European language like English, the grammar is fairly different, and there are few words recognisably related, apart from modern borrowings.Hindi script is probably easier than the Arabic-derived Urdu script.

Don't let ny of this put you off! I would advise getting hold of a native speaker to help train you in hearing those sound distinctions. Good luck!

Answer 4

i was just about to ask this question myself!

I only know a little bit about Hindi (i just got a book about it)

It's pretty easy to write (there are a lot of letters but it's very understandable and systematic). Also the script is read left-to right. The book i have is just this kiddie book "My first 100 words in Hindi". Anyway, a lot of the words are borrowed words. Car is kaar, bus is bas, school is skool, shirt is kameez (camisa in spanish?) The hardest part about learning it would probably be grammar but it seems pretty straight-forward. also, it's fun! Good luck!

Answer 5

its viable to gain knowledge of no less than 2 languages whilst, but when it exceeds two then it'll be tricky for you.... sure hindi and urdu are equivalent languages, so you're at the correct monitor, and while the time comes that you're adequate in them, then you'll be able to research spanish subsequent.... i, for one, is in a equivalent problem as you, i found out english in early levels of college, then spanish round 12 items of it for the reason that its on our curriculum in tuition now, im making an attempt hindi however no longer a proper one, its via my peers on-line, lolz, however i believe blissful to discover different nationality's tongue my first-class needs to you on this undertaking...

Answer 6

as Indu is a descendant of Sanskrit,(as Latin
,some Anglo-Saxon languages),so most of
their features are same,roots,grammer,
100% you'll find many dfrnces,but mostly
not as other langs. do !
an other benifit,as it is close to Urdu area,
it'll help you later to learn Urdu which is too
similar.
More,Indu does borrow many Arabic words
(too many),words not constructions or
grammer,it will facilitate 2 or 3 langs:-
learning Parsi,Turkish,Arabic langs.
Good luck

Answer 7

These days you can learn how to speak Hindi over the internet. Check out this online course, it's voted as the best Hindi online course of all time: http://www.rocketlearner.com/hindi The course is very easy to follow, I was able to learn Hindi in just 3 months.

I live in New York City, I wanted to go to a Hindi language teacher but that would have cost me over $800 per month. Good thing with this internet, $800 it's a lot of money for me.