Going back, I remember I had started learning the theoretical part of this very language when i was exactly in my 3rd std from an external tuition. Straight came the prathmic exam - the very first exam to write! I didn't know whether i studied अ to औ but a negative aspect attacked & rescued me outright! It was non other than TYPHOID, not just once, but twice!! Awesome motivation to dodge from my mom & my tutor (an old hindhi speaking Tamil iyer lady)... :-) Yeah it was awesome to side-step from my Hindhi exam, but not from my ever favourite juicy mangoes.. Anyways finally the next year i wrote my prathmic exam with the help of my neighbour akka who really tortured me to prepare.. I am still speculative of how i cleared the paper in 1st class.. But luckily i never went back to study the series of other Hindhi exams that followed prathmic..
But inside i always had a flair to speak Hindhi fluently.. I have seen one of my friends talking in hindhi @home though they are tamil by mom-tongue! Seriously i used to wonder why they would talk in front of me!! Was it to speak something that i shouldn't understand, like how my mom converses in English in front of maids...?! I still havent figured out the right solution for that incident.. Forget it..
Leave alone my friend.. My cousin & her mom n dad from South went to Gwalior for just 3 years & when we visited them, gosh... they were speaking those है है है kinda words... I even felt a rift in our relation!!!
In my school days i have learnt a bit of Hindhi as part of my III language, but still that too couldnt help me anyway.. Wait! I can fluently read & write becuse of the above mentioned training.. But i couldnt speak out fluently! Sad..While i was in the MBA too i felt the same.. A few girls around me were again conversing in Hindhi & wat the heck... even my damn close friends were discussing about some Hindi serials like ओ रहने वाले महलों की, माथा की चोव्की etc etc... I really felt i was in a middle of some mug's-game! Safely i tried & joined a community called एक गॉंव मे एक किसान रहता था in orkut! Felt myself on a soothing & safer side!
When my wedding got fixed last year, i came to know that my husband is in Mumbai.. Initially i didn't realise the danger that am gonna face in less than 3 months as i was love-bitten @ first sight!! :-) Slowly i started sensing the trauma as my wedding dates were nearing & lo! behold! the actual crisis started once i stepped inside Chatrapathi Shivaji Terminus alias Victoria Terminus............................
