At the end of this semester I look back with great honor at my achievement in the Hindi self-learning class. I am confident engaging in small talk with people, buying food at the local market, and being able to understand basic and daily conversations. On the other side, I have to admit, that asking the way around and telling small stories are still some issues which challenge me. I plan to overcome those by practicing on the web and watching videoclips on youtube which address this topic.
It was kind of difficult to actually sit down and reserve time for Hind learning as I thought it was easy. Well, now I knw that I might have underestimated the effort one has to put into learning a foreign language in the beginnig. However, as the semester proceeded, I read the article Prof. Grove sent us and I found the advices really helpful. For instance, I made my own place just for learning Hindi. This was in the TLC in the library. I think it really helps to approach a language learning project systematically and document the progress. Even, if you do it for fun. I liked using youtube and the internet as sources to get inspiration and found many useful websites offering help for Hindi students.
As a next step, I would love to maintain my acquired level and even improve myself learning more vocabs and getting more familiar with the grammar. Thus, I think it is essential to keep up the oral practice and be exposed to Hindi. I want to achieve my goal of being fluent in Hindi and am thererfore considering spending one to twor months in India.
Also, I would like to stay in touch with my Indian friends here on campus and establish regular Skype conferences in order to keep in touch and to practice my skills.
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