
With Urdu, Hindi has a give and take relationship. I think he meant in spoken Hindi in some places. Could you point out a word, or even a variant, that was borrowed by Hindi from one of these South Indian languages? I will look the sequel up, and Lage Raho I already have (first movie). My Hindi-English dictionary (only goes one way) is a big help, as it gives background of words. Although I said I didn't get to future tense, I know it (grammatically), but haven't intensively studied it and its use (I am going chapter by chapter in the book, but I am reading things online). I am getting the भगवद्गीता in Hindi, for literature, and I will, once I learn to read Urdu (I have a book on the way, and I am studying a bit from online), I will get a religious book from Islam in Urdu. I am learning Shuddh Hindi, Urdu, and "movie Hindi" (which seems more like Urdu than Hindi.). I am learning Hindi from a book (a bunch of them) and the internet. My favorite, though, would be Aamir Khan's Taare Zamein Par.) Also watch Sarkar's sequel, Sarkar Raj and Munnabhai MBBS's sequel Lage Raho Munnabhai. It's only the literature that will pose a problem.

I mean that you'll be able to converse like any native speaker, and understand all movies and television shows you ever get your hands on. And I don't mean reasonably fluent or fluent enough to get the meaning across. You can hold a fluent conversation in Hindi with if you manage to understand Munnabhai. Modern Hindi contains many words borrowed from Urdu, Farsi, Punjabi and South Indian languages like Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. Hindi is supposed to be my mother tongue, and yet I can't understand the regional dialects of Hindi. The reason for this is the mind boggling number of languages and dialects that exist all over India. It's like trying to read Shakespeare after learning English by watching Family Guy.



You'll begin to run into problems once you start reading Hindi literature. That means you will be able to speak and understand most native speakers. Learning Hindi by watching movies will teach you colloquial Hindi.
