Hindi Lessons
As part of my preparation for India, I, along with my fellow India bound cohorts, started taking Hindi lessons twice a weeks for 2.5 hours each session. My teacher is this funny older Indian man from Bombay (older people tend to use colonial names). He makes silly jokes that are only somewhat funny but he laughs so hard at them that you can’t help but laugh yourself.
People tell me that Hindi is easy to learn, and it is… sort of. Like all other languages, it has a philosophy that says a lot about the culture. According to my Hindi teacher, possession as we know it in English does not exist in Hindi. For example, when you translate the English sentence “I have a banana” in Hindi, it is “Mere pas kela” which roughly means “I am near/with a banana.” Apparently, you never really “own” anything. Everything is with you only for a short period of time.
