National Language out of my Buccal Cavity

In all websites, in the personal  information, there is a Languages Known section. Till last year I wrote only Tamizh (Mother tongue) and English (My medium of instruction in school) in it. I knew no other languages. But my mom has completed all the exams in Hindi and has has become the so-called "Hindi Pandit." It is an honour. I congratulate her once again. She worked hard and she got the harvest (stole this too. From a +2 Essay's conclusion). Coming back to me, back in my twelfth grade I watched few Hindi movies.I could understand a few dialogues and some scenes make sense so clearly. Among them most of them were Subtitled in English which is a language I can understand. I watched 3 idiots without subtitles. I understood nothing. It was so complicated that I wasn't able to get the whole dialogues and I would just sit there assuming the happenings of my own with some creativity.

Lekhin abhi, Guhan Hindi bi bhaat kar sakta hey! (But now, Guhan can speak Hindi too). Well, here is how.

I have told you that we were in Ahmedabad a numerous times. I think you're quite bored of hearing the Ahmedabad stories. Get bored for one of the last times. While in Ahmedabad, when I was admitted in the school, I didn't know much Hindi. The first day was highly difficult for me. With me, a new student and a late admissioned-guy, I looked more like a stranger to my classmates. I do remember some of their names. Boys: Chaitanya, Harshil, Siddarth, Pashwa. Girls: Mrunal, Sampratharani. These are the names still not erased from my memory part of the brain. The first day in school was pretty awkward for me. I didn't know a single sentence other than "Tera Naam Kya hai?" The students were mocking me with complicated questions. They'd ask me something and as I don't understand anything, all I can do is to nod or to shake my head. No matter what I did they laughed. I'll be all like "What's all this crap?". Experience is gained when time rolls and we mingle. I learnt some "Thoda thoda" Hindi and managed it there. That's it there.

After we left Ahmedabad, I had no touch with Hindi and it's been like 8 or 9 years since I spoke in Hindi. But miracles do happen unexpectedly. It was during my first Semester in college. We had a Mathematics paper. The sir actually was a Professor from the Statistics department. Some days he would just call us all to his department and conduct the class. So, one day we were all standing in front of the department waiting for everyone to come and the class to begin. While waiting, student usually talk to each other, right? Just like all the students, we too were making chit-chat. Then out of nowhere, it felt like I should speak Hindi. Annamalai University has some North-eastern students (whom people still think that they're Chinese) who converse in Hindi. I was standing there trying to speak Hindi with them. And it started working out quite well. Though I was blabbering non-sense words, I was making sense. Then we three guys, me, Puram Sai Chakradhar and Punyo Bhakang made a pact that we'll speak in Hindi from then. Hindi would come out when I talk to these two guys. Day-by-day my Hindi developed. But I wouldn't be speaking Hindi that fluently because, I am weak with some complicated words. So, when I don't know a word in the middle of a sentence, I surely can't make it understandable and the sentence goes very bad and makes sense like a Cow talking Tamizh. Now that I have a good touch with it, I am able to speak a lot better. Yes, a lot better than my Mom (Sorry). I only talk in Hindi with my class mates Rahul Tangkhu and Rajesh Banik and my friends find that to be fascinating. Np, I am not bragging. I am just telling what happens when I speak Hindi. Thanks to English which fills the space when I can't make sense sometimes.

So, that's the little bad-story of how I spoke the national language even after a long time.

So, this is Guhan saying "Guhan will be back" in English because he is not that fluent in Hindi and he doesn't know what the exact translation is.