Knowing about the history of a language is very helpful.
As far as it concerns me, Hindi is an indogerman language and therefore related to German and Latin. Since I know those two languages, I have an advantage and I know to which language I can refer to when learning new structures. This includes two main parts of a language: vocabs and grammar. Unfortunately, intonation might be different, as it is very variable depending on the people speaking it.
Also, in Hindi there are a lot of Arabic and Farsi influences as the mughals were speaking these languages. So, today there are some words which are of Arabic or Farsi origin. One example would be "Thank you". The Arabic version is "sukriya" whereas the original Indian version is "dhanyavad".
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