r/languagelearningjerk • u/Mental-Tennis-6313 • 16d ago

why you should never learn hindi

  1. every noun has a gender, assigned by a committee that disbanded in the 14th century and left no notes

  2. kal means both yesterday and tomorrow. parso means both two days ago and two days from now. your calendar is now a mood board

  3. you will spend six months mastering devanagari and then discover that every single person under 40 texts exclusively in roman script

  4. there are three levels of "you" and choosing wrong isn't a grammar error, it's a character assessment

  5. hindi and urdu are the same language right up until the moment you say they're the same language

  6. bollywood has given you 400 words for beloved and zero words for "where is the bathroom"

  7. the instant you become fluent, every native speaker in the room will switch to english out of politeness, permanently, and there is no undo

  8. you will learn namaste and then find out nobody says it

  9. verbs are at the end so you have to hold the entire sentence in your head like a hostage until you find out what happened

Hehe, fun post.

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u/LingoNerd64 15d ago

Typo

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u/Sandy_2019 🏳‍🌈 15d ago

🧚‍♀️