I have been laying emphasis on expanding my vocabulary and get a feeling for the construction of sentences.
In Hindi the verb is placed right at the end of every phrase. In addition, there are more grammatical rules which differ from German. However, since I am quite good at Latin, I can refer to this ancient language. This helps me to memorize certain phrases better.
Ultimately, my goal is to be able to have short and basic, allday conversations. Basically, I want to be independent while travelling through India. Thus, I need to enwiden my word treasury of words and listen to allday conversation.
As for now, I know approximately 80 words and about five phrases. This allows me to talk about my family, my studies and my daily life back home, in Vienna.
The fact that stroke me the most is that some words commonly used in Hindi are very similar to the Roman languages, French, Spanish and of course Latin, f.i. kamiz for camisa, Spanish, shirt. Also vice versa many words in English or even German are from Indian origin, f.ex. shampoo for capna, Hindi, to massage or Punsch, German meaning hot punch, for panj, Hindi.
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