White Guy Learns Hindi in 24 Hours, Shocks Indian Locals

Thanks to Vessi for the sponsorship! Their shoes are genuinely amazing. Make sure you head to https://vessifootwear.com/xiaoma for $40 off your first pair!!! In this video I attempt to learn to speak as much Hindi as possible in 24 hours, and then go talk with total strangers in New York’s Indian / Pakistani / South Asian neighborhood of Jackson Heights. Obviously it’s not possible to learn a language to fluency in 24 hours, but I did learn how to have a basic conversation in 24 hours! As of the start of this video I knew absolutely nothing in Hindi — not the script, not how to say hello or goodbye, nothing. I also did not know any languages related to Hindi so it was a completely new language family for me.

I learned exclusively through tutors on Italki, a website that lets you book language tutors from around the globe. They’re not sponsoring the video or anything, I just like the platform ;-)

Hindi is written in the Devanagari script, which given my time constraints I did not learn for this challenge — instead, I’ll be working through my tutors with romanized transliterations of Hindi. In the future I hope to learn Devanagari!!!

Also be sure to check out Niraz's excellent channel Hindi Learning TV for more Hindi learning advice!    / @hindustanitongue  

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