Learning Journal #6

[Anirudh Viswanathan]

The history of Hindi is long and interesting. Hindi is one of the original Indo-European languages, so understanding how words in Hindi originated from languages such as German and Spanish is very interesting. Words like narangi, which means Orange in Hindi, is close to the pronunciation in Spanish of anaranjado. These similarities create a very interesting bond between speakers of different languages, and because I know some Spanish, this could make it somewhat easier for me to learn Hindi. The connection between old languages can be found in vocabulary all over the place and this really interests me because these languages have been passed down for generations and there are changes to every language.