Katrina - How long does it take to learn Hindi?

After skimming through pekingexpress's thread, I started wondering how long would it take for a non-Hindi speaker to learn Hindi to a proficient level, or to learn any language for that matter.

So how long would it take for a native English speaker to learn Hindi?, surely not 10 bloody years and still remain uncomfortable enough to communicate in it.

The Foreign Service Institute of the US Department of State has a list based on data gathered on the average number of hours required to learn different languages. The list of languages are divided into three main groups depending on the relative difficulty for a NATIVE English speaker to learn them, some languages are more closer to English and thus require less time than others, although this is just a rough guide and not an absolute measure.

Category 1 are "languages are closely related to English", these are French, Germain, Italian.. roughly 23-24 weeks (575-600 class hours)

Category 2 are "languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English" - Greek, Turkish, Farsi, Hindi, Russian, Tamil etc... 44 weeks (1100 class hours)

Category 3 are the hardest for native English speakers, they are Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean etc... 88 weeks (2200 class hours)(about half that time preferably spent studying in-country)

17 year old boy from America learnt Hindi in 4 months 😆... but this guy is gifted, he also speaks 22 other languages as well..

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niOGFw36ueU[/YOUTUBE]


African guy learnt Hindi from watching films and listening to songs, never been to India.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl31N-aurmI[/YOUTUBE]


Canadian guy of Italian descent, speaks fluent Punjabi.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1pWieO7eo[/YOUTUBE]


White guy from America speaks fluent Urdu.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOEKkKClQH0[/YOUTUBE]


Katrina Kaif, living in India for 10 years and still can't speak Hindi fluently, or English for that matter.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8TvP2onXP4[/YOUTUBE]

🤓 I never learned Hindi either and still can't speak it.

Originally posted by: OhGreat1

I've been trying for last 5 days to learn sign language


I've become quite the star at it . Now I can tells hearing and deaf girls that I wanna make out with them 😉 😉

Her under eye area is sooo botoxed. Doesn't move at all.

Originally posted by: NaughtyGaurav

🤓 I never learned Hindi either and still can't speak it.

That's not surprising, what would be surprising is if you couldn't speak English. 😆

Well she has also been an 'actress' for the last eight years but her defination of actress comprises of looking like a zombie.
And then people call her hardworking. Where exactly is the hardwork ? Because it sure isnt palpable onscreen

[quote]"Katrina: 5" is the right size."[/quote]

Well I come from a non Hindi speaking family. We're Gujju so the primary language we speak in the house is Gujju (or English). I've never learned the language of Hindi or taken any classes. I have not lived in India. Only visited 3 times in my entire 23 years of my life.

no idea...how long it takes...but I a native dutch speaker and weak english writer learned to understand arabic within weeks. I just really badly wanted to know what my Kadim said in his interviews. So I just listened intently...suddenly basic stuff like good morning/evening, how are you, hello, thank you, sweetheart, just words he repeated often i started to understand. A few weeks later i could understand like 30% of what he said...and now 5 years later i understand 90%...