Through the ages, it had been influenced and enriched by other languages such as Farsi, Arabic, Dravidian, Turkish and even Portuguese and English. Poetic and rational Because of its very long tradition and nature, it had been known to be a very expressive language. It can convey complex emotions even with simple and gentle words. Gandhi did not agree with Hindu-Muslim division thus he proposed a merge between Urdu and Hindi which took shape in the term Hindustani. Education can be more than just concepts and ideas. More can be learned by observing and studying the movements and efforts of various groups and individuals in order to pursue what they believe in. Find materials that would have you fill in blanks in sentences appropriately using the right Hindi words. Watch Hindi television shows. Ask your cable television service provider for listings of special channels that carry Hindi content. Go out and meet Hindi speakers at the club, the theatre, your school, or the market place. The same is true to all things female which are regarded in the feminine gender. Things, inanimate objects, and abstract nouns are either masculine or feminine according to convention. In a sentence, most of the adjectives, though not all, changes according to the gender of the nouns. Moreover, Hindi verbs change to indicate the gender of their subjects in a sentence. There is said to be standard Hindi and standard Urdu both of which are taken from the Khari Boli dialect. Hindi is primarily Sanskritised while Urdu has underwent a Persianizing process which led to the existence of various writing systems such as the Perso-Arabic script and Devanagari. As mentioned above Hindi is the dominant method of spoken communication within the Indian realms. Why then is learning Hindi not that popular? Lack of resources The world s major publishers of language tutorial programs (Assimil, Pimsleur, Linguaphone) have managed to produce only the first level of Hindi language programs. So far, there are only few universities in the U.S. offering Hindi language classes.