I am learning Hindi because I am a Hare Krsna and I plan to travel through India in the near future and I'd like to make Indians smile with my Hindi :-) My question is can you recommend some good Bollywood movies in Hindi that I could watch with English subtitles to help me learn? My partner and I watched 3 Idiots the other week and now it's one of our favourite films! Thanks Karl
Some of the tips to learn Hindi: 1. Learn the alphabets and the pronunciation 2. Learn the subjects (I, you, he, etc..) 3. Learn some basic verbs (be, talk, eat, drink, come, go, etc..) 4. Learn some basic things (animals, house stuffs, food, feelings, etc..) 5. Learn questions (what, how, when, who, why..) 6. Once you succeed in the above, watch hindi movies or listen to songs (I recommend mostly comedy-romance movies and with your native language subtitle). However, that is for speaking/ understanding/ communicating. 7. If you want to write in Hindi, then read short stories. It's much easier like this
@@heartyu9306 I can understand as native speaker its kind of natural for me like its not like they teach gender of non living things its just something acquired naturally so i understand how difficult it is to learn for you
@@heartyu9306 Yes, it can be difficult to give genders to objects, I just realised. Khursi - female (chair) Roti - female (bread) Khidki - female (window) Notice how all of them end with "i", so they are feminine. You will find many examples on the internet, read them and with practice, you will be able to tell gender of objects without any help. Happy learning!
Oh yeah, we’re trying really really hard! Starting from letters and pronunciation to other points that was discussed in the video But I’m getting there, step by step. Duolingo is the best for me to learn Hindi
I'm latina and fluent in both English and Spanish, currently learning Hindi and the pronunciation feels so natural to me because it somewhat resembles many Spanish words, I really believe I could learn Hindi fluently but only speaking it because I won't even try to learn how to write/read as I find it extremely hard. Hindi is so poetic to me and so soft and sweet, love singing along to Hindi songs and I find myself spending my weekends watching Bollywood films. I hope to visit India someday! :)
Learning hindi really does open up a new world of syllables for you. I'm from India, so I know Hindi ofc. And this helps me a lot while learning Japanese and Korean. Since white people struggle to pronounce those words, I can pronounce them as naturally as native Japanese. The Indian accent may be a negative point of being and Indian and speaking Hindi lol, but the plus is you'll find it easier to learn other languages. Which is definitely a nice advantage
@@Arjan.Bedi_ tu in Spanish means you in English, umh can't remember all of them, oh "que" in Spanish is "what" in English, camisa for us is shirt, I wanna say azucar too? can't remember but there's a lengthy list, I feel.
I want to learn Hindi because my wife is Indian and she speaks Hindi and Bengali fluently (and Nepali pretty well too). We've been together for 12 years now so it really is time I learned to speak her language! I also love Bollywood movies so want to watch those without the need for sub titles!
I am a native speaker of hindi-urdu language ( hindustani ). This is the beautiful language. Many foreigners are learning this language as a hobby on account of being heavily influenced by bollywood songs .
I want to learn hindi because i want to be a bollywood performer. Even my english is not good enough . My mother tongue is arabic but because it is my dream i will do everything to achieve my dream and i will not give up
dont worry you will be able to achieve your dreams. we have so many people in bollywood who dont know hindi a lot but it's still fine, you can just adopt the language from watching movies and even having conversations with local Indians on social media like instagram. that will be very helpful. my good wishes are with you.
Hi sister ❣️ don't give up , Nora fathi is an Arabian too , and she is a big name in Bollywood now , wish you all the best , and achievement of your goals ❤️❤️❤️
Well, My dreams are a lot like yours. But I know 3 language Bengali, English and Hindi. It's good to see you love Bollywood and you're looking to work here hope it would be real. Are you from UAE????
I'm learning Hindi because I work and live in Pune at the moment. Sadly I am also half deaf so I seriously struggle. But I have a few words down, mostly curse words, and orders-directions LOL (I'm a bodyguard)
Rebert showe if you want to be fluent hindi speaker so I shall help you to learn hindi with very easy and fun way because i am native hindi speaker, and i need your help because I am learning English language why not we teach each other who we know how about.
@@avanishmishra1069 I can speak some Hindi and Marathi, mostly orders, food, drink (water) and a few curse words haha I've been working and off in India for severe decades, I'm just very bad at languages including my native American English LOL
I started using Duolingo for Hindi, but the thing about Duolingo is, they don’t teach you these things about pronunciation and sentence structure and everything. They’re just like, “Hey! Here’s some letters! Here’s some words! Here’s some sentences!” And you have to just listen and figure it out for yourself. I want to learn Hindi because I’ve met many Indian friends, and I’m fascinated with languages in general. Hindi is a very beautiful language to me.
Bro entire india knows Hindi except south india , because they follow only their language and partly converse in English too . So basically india is country of 22 languages out of which hindi and english is widely spoken in rest of India and South Respectively 👍❤️
I will give you guys a tip which make Hindi a very easy language to learn. Forget about the subject-object-verb ordering. It doesn't matter that much. For example, in the sentence he gave in the video - "I am going to the market" can be said in the following says 1) "Mein bazaar jaa raha hun" - literal translation - "I market going is" 2) "Mein jaa raha hun bazaar" - literal translation "I going is market" 3) "Bazaar mein jaa raha hun" - literal translation -"Market I going is" 4) "Jaa raha hun mein Bazaar" - literal translation "going is I bazaar" - All these forms are acceptable and people will understand what you are saying. They are even grammatically correct. This will make your life much easier because now, you only need to know the vocabulary. Dont pay too much attention to the genders. Its ok if you mess that up. Sentence structuring thus actually becomes very very easy in Hindi. I realized this because as a native Hindi/Marathi speaker, I am learning German, and German has very strict rules about Subject-verb-object in its sentence structuring. As far as the numbers go, hell even I say numbers in English. If I dont understand a number that the other person said, I ask them to say it in English. Good luck! Learn Hindi because once you start understanding song lyrics, its just a heavenly language to know and you will be glad :)
@@cookie-kl6lr used to complete a sentence like period. But also has different form which discloses gender, present or past. Just like ‘is’, ‘was’ but used at the end. And has power to define gender.
@@ANGEL-qh5xk hmm you are right coz you just mentioned a fact but if you had disrespected them then definitely plenty of people must have roasted you till now...... So don't ever do that mistake or else you are gonna get roasted by people you don't even know.......lol 😂army's are protective.....
Great topic Karl! I am married to an Indian woman and I’ve learned lots of Hindi words but I struggle to translate them into complete sentences. I joke that Hindi is easy because they use so many English words. It seems like every time I ask my wife what the Hindi word for something is, she’ll simply say “we use the English word for that”. Also, even in Hindi speaking India, the language differs by religion. For example, many Muslim Indians do not say “nameste”. They also use more Urdu.
Lol here comes genius Assamese Hindus says namaskar Telegu Hindus says namaskaram And in the morning subhdayam Tribal Hindus use their languages 1956 languages are spoken in India Muslims more like islamists are living in India
No man ....who told you language differs with religion. Indian Muslims or anyone speaks the regional language . Namaste Salam etc are just greetings used by all religions. BTW Namaste has nothing to do with religion.
Not with religion but different states in India. For eg. People of southern states like Kerala and Tamilnadu speak their own regional languages like Tamil and majority of them don't understand hindi. Bengalis speak their own language too which is Bengali but a lot of them understand hindi as well. There are way too many regional languages in India
@@anahurtado4068 I'm learning spanish, Im pretty alright right now. I'm basically in england right now. We could help by talking to each other in the same language to help practice actually talking with each other.
To me learning Hindi is like discovering something so different but weirdly familiar at the same time. There are surprising vocab similarities to my native Russian that most likely stem from the time it was one language ( indo-european, as per linguistic theory). Aag = aagon, peena = peet, sookha = sookhoy etc. Makes me feel like a part of a large human family, where we are all connected.
It's been proved that the "Aryans" from the Central-Asia came to the North-Eastern Mountain range "Hindu Kush" and colonized India in between 1500 to 1000 BCE. So technically there meant to be many similarities between our languages.
I've been learning Hindi for almost two years (first by myself and now with a teacher) because my wife is Indian. You are correct, there is no easy quick way to learn a language. It just takes time and practice. Although I disagree with your comment regarding the number of letters in Hindi. I see it as 49 letters (13 vowels and 36 consonants) with a lot of modifications to those letters (double letters, half letters, etc.). I'll have to take a look at your book! Great video, thanks!
@@KarlRock Thank you for your videos. It's pretty inspiring to watch you go around and talk in Hindi. I think my most used phrase has been "Aap se milkar kushi hui". Every time it completely blows people away! Just tonight I ordered Indian food take-out and said a simple "Shubh ratri". The restaurant guy was so happy! It's really awesome that Indian people are so friendly. I remember studying abroad in Germany, and they would mockingly laugh at any simple grammar or pronunciation mistakes. I have never had that experience with Indians.
@@crafty_android thxs bro for such a kind of appreciation.no one can be 100% perfect in any language.If we r indians,it doesn't mean we know hindi 100%.i think,all people should try to understand each other's talks
Hola from Colombia, thanks for your videos, they gave me a new and awesome perspective of India, keep the videos coming please (sorry for horrible English)
This sentence you wrote was almost perfect english, except for the last bit you said in brackets sorry for horrible English, you should of said sorry for my horrible English
Namaste Learners I am looking for some dedicated learners who want to learn Hindi language! I can help with one-to-one coaching. Any leads will be appreciated! 🙏😊
I'm Swedish and a language nerd, so I love to learn new languages. I grew up speaking 4 fluently (English, Swedish, French, German) and some Swahili. I love all the different writing systems. Currently, I'm learning Russian, Korean, Finnish, Arabic, Japanese, Turkish, Thai, Mandarin, Elder Futhark, Hungarian and Icelandic. I don't have any illusions of being able to speak them fluently, but I'm so obsessed with grammar and such that I can't stop adding new languages to that list! Like Hindi, for example! ;-)
Im also learning Arabic and Turkish! And Swahili too :) I agree with you, there's so many cool lanuages and i just feel like learning them all if i could
I know Hindi cause i've been studying by my own. I traveled to Mumbai 3 years ago, then i caught some phrases that's why i'm capable to speak. I must confess watching your videos, i've been learning more than i could expect. Keep it up mera dost
I'm Mauritian, I already have a fluent French and English, a good base in hindi and understand most of simple sentences but I tend to have lots of difficulties with verbs and tenses.....
We as Indians have focussed a lot on ENGLISH... getting it grammatical correct.. ignoring the language SANSKRIT(MOTHER OF ALL LANGUAGES)...it's my dream to learn SANSKRIT..one of the oldest language in world😍😍😍
Im learning hindi because Im a US citizen in India looking for my Indian father! Thanks Karl and congrats all the petitioning we did got you home and welcome back! Praise God!!
So crazy they kept you out so long because you are doing so much good for India! Keep up the good work! Your wife is so beautiful and you two make a cute couple!
Hindi is an Indo European language so if you know Romance languages like French or Spanish it’s quite helpful I would say. Possessive words are similar (starts with ‘m’ for my and ‘t’ for yours or you) and many other similarities. But yes there are a ton of differences. By contrast, South Indian languages are way harder in my opinion.
I think I will forget Hindi after watching Hindi tutorials 😂😂😂 Between I am speaking Hindi from Childhood and don't know why am I watching this and now I got to know that I was speaking such a difficult language 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💜💜 Bts army Attendence pls 😎
Loved the video. I'm from Sudan, I learning Hindi challenge my self cuz I already know Arabic and English, and help me to get education there or schooler ship .❤🙌
Hi! I am actually studying abroad in Delhi (about to move to Bhopal in one week ahh!) and am learning Hindi. It's been pretty difficult so far, but i'm hoping to get more practice in Bhopal where they speak less english. It's too easy to rely on english in Delhi! Great video!
As an Arab, who grew up in UAE, and spent my childhood watching bollywood movies religiously and still do, I'd say I can pretty much understand anything I hear. And can speak my way around people, but I seriously don't know where to start to officially learn hindi properly.
Well... I am from India... I know how to speak Hindi language... But I am very glad to know that you all people want to learn hindi language.... I feel very happy... Keep it up 👍👍👍
Yes. Finally someone speaks the real stuff! It took me 2 years to learn to hear differentiate and begin understanding the script and begin to understand SOV grammar.
I'm a South Indian but I know very fluent Hindi and this is how I learnt it. When I was a kid i used to watch Doraemon in Hindi dub and i grew up watching that show. I learnt a little bit Hindi from it. In school I chose Hindi as my second language, so i studied Hindi for a past few years. I also watch bollywood movies which made me more fluent in Hindi.
now i feel lucky to be able to speak fluent hindi and write. i just started my korean language classes and now i understand how difficult it gets to learn a totally different language. wish me luck karl ♥️
Hindi is my mother tounge but I don't have technical knowledge about the language even half close to you Karl ji. Hardwork + Determination + Consistency = Karl Ji Success. Ram Ram Karl Ji.
Why I am learning ( or trying to) learn Hindi. I work where there are a lot of Hindi speaking people new to the country ( Canada ) And I want them to feel welcome plus it will be a way for me to talk to them about Jesus in their own language. Also I got to know some of these guys and they are mostly awesome guys and their is just the language barrier for me to get to know them on a personal level and not just a work relationship.
मैं भी अमेरिकानी हूँ जो हिंदी सीख पाया। हिंदी सच्ची में मुश्किल नहीं मगर हिन्दुस्तानी लोगों से बोलना काफी मुश्किल है. ज़्यादातर हिन्दुस्तानी लोग दूसरे भाषाए बोलते है - गुझराती, बँगला। ... जब उनसे बोलता तब वे अचानक से दूसरी भाषाओं में बोल लगते है।
Hey I am an Indian ( hindi is mother tounge) And i just came here to see that how many peoples are intrested in learning hindi And am really very happy 😊😊😊😊
Love your effort in learning the local language karl, there are still some english speaking foreigner who of make fun of Indians because they are not fluent in english, while at the same time they don't bother learning the local language when they are in India.
@lord.shadow980 In fact the Japanese alphabets (hiragana and katakana) are loosely modeled off of Indic scripts. The influence came from the spread of Buddhism to Japan, which brought with it the religious texts written in Sanskrit or Pali. I'm not referring to the appearance of the characters, but the structure of the alphabet.
I am learning Hindi. And tried to teach Pakistani people to learn it. It's as easy as Urdu. Thanks for motivating people to learn Hindi. Thanks from Pakistan.
this is not only useful for foreigners learning hindi but also for non-hindi speaking indians who want to learn hindi!!! Keep up the great work Karl!!!
Namaste Karl! You have a fantastic channel - thanks for all the information you are sharing! I’m from Austria and traveling for almost 5 years now and I learned the basic phrases in every country I visited. It is amazing how locals react when they see you trying. It doesn’t have to be perfect if you are only visiting the country. But some basic vocabulary opens so many doors and the smiles are wonderful! I´ll spend the winter months in India and I will definitely check out your Hindi book :-)
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Meh Dakshina Bharatiya hu aur muje iss bahut sundar Hindi bhasha aathi hai aur mujhe meri mathra bhasha Kannada bhi aathi hai mujhe iss donoyi bhasha ke upar bahut pyaar aur garv hai aur meh hai kehana chatahu ki bhesak bahut sare bhashaye hai iss Prachin Bharat desh mai lekin anth meh hab sab bharatiya hai aur kuch aur nahi Jai Hind, Jai Bharat.
I want to learn Hindi because I like India and I made a promise to my cousin that we would learn Hindi together. But I see now that I have still a long way to go xD
Yeah hindi is not a easy language that is very difficult specially it's grammar , where there are parts of the parts but still you speak really well ! Feeling nyc see foreigners speaking my language and trying to learn my language 🙃keep going guys👍
Literally came at the perfect time I have been wanting to speak Hindi for so long I would love to be able to be fluent in Hindi to be able to communicate and feel more connected to my culture I wanna learn to be able to watch Bollywood films without subtitles and listen to Hindi music and know exactly the song means my biggest challenge is to form sentences from the words I already know please explain how you overcame that thanks again love your videos
Thank you for the video! I want to learn Hindi because my boyfriend is Indian and his family are still in India and that’s about all his family and friends speak for the most part and I want to impress him and be able to communicate with his family. 😊
@@KarlRock Mandarin was rough for me because of the tones....but I did find it so interesting. I plan to visit India, maybe next year. What is the best way to contact you directly before I go? It would be great to meet and share a meal. I will get your book before I go. Best of luck with your on line store.
Me tumko kuchh bhi bolu tum samajh nahi paoge, ha vo baat alag hai agar tum translate karo to itni si baat ke liye translate kar rahe ho mtlb tum free hi bethe ho😂koi kaam nai hai kya😅
Lol I watched anime initially to learn English, but now I am learning Japanese thanks to it. :P And I learnt Hindi in school, not an expert but its enough for me to talk with native Hindi speakers or watch Hindi movies. Its not my native language since I am from south india.
Same goes for my classmate ...she's Bengali too...She can speak Hindi with umm wrong pronunciations btw but cannot write bengali...that's why she almost fails in Hindi exam
Hi Carl, I hope you’re still involved in this video somehow, even though it was what five years ago. It is now 2024, I’ve been to India, twice, and one of the main challenges in me enjoying India is to learn Hindi, so that I can understand what’s going on around me.
Well Done Dude! You make a good Hindi Tutor too. The best way to learn any language is to be there among the people and use it actively. There must be that motivational factor. Well Done again! I speak Polish fluently btw and did it your way.
I’m going to buy your book! My girlfriend is Indian and I would like to be able to talk to her in Hindi, thank you so much for the work your doing to help the rest of us raise our abilities!
I am indian and I can speak Hindi very fluent. I am feeling very good, because that much people interested to learn hindi 😀 Keep going, you can do it 👍
4:07 A small correction : In Hindi , "beard" (dadhi) is also feminine. So if you want to say that " My beard has grown out." you'd say : _Meri dadhi badi ho gayi hai_ (feminine) And not: _Mera dadhi bada ho gaya hai_ (masculine) In any case this video was really fun to watch!
The trick is to learn hindi is to learn the script (Devanagari) first and then the language. That will speed up your learning. Also once you master Devanagari script you get to read marathi, nepali and Konkani language as well as those languages use the same Devanagari script. The advantage of Devanagari script is you speak what is written. There is no guess work involved. No need rot know the context like in other languages.
😀 wow! Nice work Karl! As a european.. it took months staying in india before i even started to hear any differences between any of the letters in hindi. Hindi is just so different from the six european languages i speak, and so different from anything i had ever even heard before 😋
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I think learning a language that's very different from your own grammatically and phonetically is something that really changes the way you perceive things and how you approach languages in general. If you manage to do it, you get access to a perspective that most people never do.
Regarding the Genders - you are obviously a native English speaker or you would know that many languages use genders. The way to learn and memorise those is simple: When you learn a noun, ALWAYS pronounce the gender together with it.
