Dodging Hindi

Secondly reading Hindi in class had always been a nightmare, as I would make elementary errors like “lakdi” for “ladki” and thus change a girl to a stick. I am sure this gave nightmares to my teacher too. Finally while writing in Hindi I found myself wanting for ideas and was not able to express myself freely due to my limited vocabulary. All in all I am quite relieved that I do not have to learn Hindi anymore. he rest would be like facing a bouncer from a fast bowler in cricket where everything just sails past over my head. Another reason for me not improving my reading skills was the lack of interesting reading material in the course. Though in the ninth and tenth grade there were a few good short stories by Premchand and Gulshan Nanda. First of all I would commit grammatical blunders as the language had a funny way of distinguishing genders. Since I am from Mumbai I do converse in Hindi but this is different, as grammar has no significance here and there is quite a lot of slang that is used which doesn’t help much either.