So, I decided to take things into my own hands and get chummy with Rosetta Stone before all hell breaks loose on/around March 15 (a.k.a. You see, my husband has not been paneled (officially approved) for his New Delhi post yet, so when he asked his CDO if I could take Hindi classes now that question kinda landed on deaf ears.
Makes sense, right? Well, yes but things are never as simple as we’d like them to be. So, I thought, why not start Hindi now, before the baby’s arrival. That’s all dandy but we are expecting a baby boy in March and I plan to breast feed him, which may make it impossible for me to take classes at FSI. Of course, we are not going until May 2012, so the classes that I’d be eligible for (if there’s space available) start in the summer of 2011. I have wanted to take the classes at the Foreign Service Institute (the training arm of the Foreign Service) ever since we learned we are going to India. But I want to learn it for a number of reasons, not the least of which is because I know it will make our lives in New Delhi easier. But Hindi is the predominant language of in the northern parts of India, including in and around New Delhi, where we will be posted.Ĭan I live there without learning Hindi? Probably. The rest speak other regional languages and English. As a matter of fact, according to my Indian neighbor, who’s from New Delhi, only 20% of the Indian population speaks Hindi. In addition, Hindi is not spoken by everyone in India - far from it. I am not the Foreign Service employee and am not required to learn it. Let me just preface this post by saying that I don’t have to learn Hindi.
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