There’s an old joke I heard in India which goes something like this:
What do you call a person who speaks many languages? Multilingual
What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual
What do you call a person who speaks one language? American
Sad, but usually true. I got fairly deep into my adult life without having learned anymore than the bare minimum Spanish I was required to study in the Arkansas public school system. As you might imagine, I wasn’t all that conversational in Spanish by the time I graduated. My father’s mother was German and my mother’s mother is Japanese. I grew up hearing many languages spoken but somehow never learned another one. As a German-Japanese-American, by my mid-20s I started to feel like I was missing something serious.
I was sitting at work in a big company lunch room one day talking to an Indian friend. I asked how many languages he spoke and he said six. I told him I was envious and that I guessed I would need to just eventually move to another country so I could be immersed enough to learn a language. I was tired of being the typical monolingual American. He said, “Look around. Anything significant about the people you see?” I looked around and it turned out I was the only person in the lunch room who wasn’t Indian. He said “Learn an Indian language”.
So I bought every Hindi book, CD ROM, and video I could find and started watching Bollywood movies for fun. Within a year or so I was pretty conversational. I started teaching my wife, Kelly, Hindi as well, and we used it as a secret language when we were out in public.
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Based on my self-driven Indian cultural immersion, when an opportunity came up at the big company I worked for to have someone expatriate to India to help set up a software development center, I was the first choice. My wife and I spent a year and a half living in Bangalore trying to blend in like real Indians (except for the physical appearance thing of course).
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We took two private Hindi classes per week plus I took Kannada and studied the Veena twice a week each as well. The Veena lessons were particularly cool because the teacher didn’t speak very much English at all and wrote all the music in Kannada script, which I had taught myself over a long weekend after we moved to Bangalore (I discovered that after learning to read Hindi, it was relatively easy to learn any Indian language’s writing system). Knowing that I couldn’t have succeeded in these Veena lessons had I been limited to English was extremely empowering.
While in India, we were fearless. We walked the back streets of Bangalore where westerners don’t go. We weren’t afraid to find our own transportation or do our own business anywhere, despite the huge cultural differences and language barriers. And when we went up North where everyone spoke Hindi, we didn’t have to worry about trying to find cab drivers who spoke English. We were able to go to small villages and talk to anyone we encountered. We got to see what India was really like and to experience the immense warmth of its people, which we’ve discovered is multiplied when you even try to say “Hello” or “Thank you” in their language.
The benefit of learning Hindi didn’t stop at the Indian border. All of this led to another of the best experiences of my life. When we were about to head home from India, my wife got an email from a non-profit group in Louisville, Kentucky (our home/destination) that supported Tibetan monastic refugees: “Help! Does anyone speak Tibetan or Hindi?”. The director of the non-profit (http://www.drepunggomang.com) was desperate and half-joking when she sent the request. They had just moved a senior monk from an monastery in India to Kentucky to lead a dharma center when the local Tibetan translator had immigration problems and was suddenly no longer allowed to stay in the US. The monk didn’t speak any English, so the dharma center was basically stuck there with him without anyone who could help communicate. We didn’t know a whole lot about Tibetan Buddhists at the time but decided it wouldn’t hurt to help, so we responded saying we spoke Hindi and were due back in Kentucky in a week.
This started a long relationship with the institute which included a stint with both of us serving as directors. We also became very close friends with Geshe Sangay Gyatso from whom we learned a lot about Tibetan culture and Mahayana Buddhism. He even lived with us for a while. The center was in between lodging arrangments for him, so it made perfect sense for him to stay with us since we could all communicate. We had developed a family-like relationship. He stayed with us for about a month. I remember the smell of incense and the sound of chanting coming out of his room every morning as he practiced his faith. It was a seriously humbling and life-changing experience to let the pressures of corporate life reflect from his perspective after work each day.
Being Geshe Sangay’s translator led us to amazing experiences, including a lot of dialog with the spiritual leaders of Louisville when we attended and participated in interfaith events. One of the highlights of these experiences was when I had the opportunity to tour the gardens of The Abbey of Gethsemani while translating for the recently retired abbot of the Drepung Gomang Monastery in India. I believe I’m one of very few non-monks to see the full beauty of the Abbey, and it’s an experience I’ll never forget.
As the direct result of learning Hindi (and now a little Tibetan and Kannada), I’ve had some of the greatest career, cultural, social, and spiritual experiences of my life. I’ve made dear friends I could never have met or communicated with, and I’ve learned things that would have been much harder to learn without the language skills. Is learning a language a good use of your time? Absolutely.
August 2nd, 2009 at 07:09 PM
Thank you very much for sharing this great story Chad, i believe that it is very important not only to know a new language but to be open to new experience with other cultures because sharing with other cultures help’s in understand our own, and also help us in understanding others people background, and why do they act as they do.
August 2nd, 2009 at 07:30 PM
Chad
You are a rock star in real life too (besides the ruby and rails-verse) Your story is amazing and i was taken back memory lane as I was born in Bangalore and now settled in SF bay area.
Kudos to you as this narrative made me rethink my current lifestyle :)
August 2nd, 2009 at 08:02 PM
Being stuck with one language is he bane of any big and largely self-sufficient country. Russia is another great example of that.
When your country is small (and European :) ) you usually have no choice but to know at least one other language.
The experience you get as a result is definitely bigger than for a monolingual person — that’s true
August 2nd, 2009 at 08:14 PM
I spent 4 years in Hungary, studying and becoming quite fluent in hungarian. It opened up a lot of opportunities for me while I was there, as well as provided new and interesting encounters when I moved back to the states. Also, due to the differences in the language structure, I’ve found it helpful to sometimes think about problems in hungarian; sometimes it helps me see the answer.
August 2nd, 2009 at 09:33 PM
Wow, thanks for sharing. I’ve been wanting to learn a new language for a while and may now have to start taking the small steps towards getting there.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Learning another language changed my life in unexpected ways too. What really motivates me is the idea, like you mentioned, of getting to know people who you otherwise would have had no chance of knowing due to the language barrier. That and also it’s fun! It took me many years to discover how enjoyable language learning can be.
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Learning another language changed my life in unexpected ways too. What really motivates me is the idea, like you mentioned, of getting to know people who you otherwise would have had no chance of knowing due to the language barrier. That and also it’s fun! It took me many years to discover how enjoyable language learning can be.
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Good for you Chad! This is a fantastic read!
I came from India to US 12 years ago. IMHO, Americans are one the most gregarious people on the planet. I was very surprised to find American monolingulism (my word – probably doesn’t exist in English, but who cares!). One more thing I found is how few Americans have traveled abroad.
Honestly, to feel compassionate, (among other things) one has to understand other languages, other cultures and other sensitivities.
When I speak with my Indian buddies back home and when I get a question that can be only asked by a person who has not spent quality time in real America – My usual response is – It is not good or bad, it is different. If you are OK with different then you will do fine.
I don’t know Sanskrit well, but I am told being mother of many Indian (and Indo-Aryan) languages, if one learns Sanskrit then you can pickup most any other Indian language.
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Hey Chad or should I say Namaskara
What an awesome story ! Its really amazing, how knowing a totally different language and breaking from your comfort zone opens the world up !
I have been lucky enough to knowing 3 completely different languages ( Kannada, English and Swahili) via my experiences in life. In many ways my views have been shaped vastly by the 3 varied cultural experiences.
Congrats and good luck !
August 3rd, 2009 at 01:43 AM
Mr Fowler,
You put me to shame Sir; my mother tongue is Gujarati (a sanskrit based language, like Hindi) which I am actually forgoting from lack of use since the age of 7 (when I moved to the UK).
Note to self: get it together and at least learn my mother tongue.
August 3rd, 2009 at 02:51 AM
This is awesome, I know 4 languages(english,hindi,malayalam,kannada), but never learned to read/write Kannada even though I am in Bangalore for nearly 20 years! This is really inspiring story! Thanks for sharing!
August 3rd, 2009 at 03:07 AM
Thanks for sharing this – very inspiring and shows that language can be a bridge, only if people choose to take the first step.
August 3rd, 2009 at 04:13 AM
This is inspiring. I need to be more serious about my Spanish classes.
August 3rd, 2009 at 05:01 AM
Regarding the joke you mention at the beginning of the post, it depends how you define “Americans”.
Because if you take into account all the 1st and 2nd generation immigrants, you do get quite a lot more bi-(or even multi)
lingual Americans ;)August 3rd, 2009 at 05:19 AM
Hi chad,
It is really inspiring to hear about an American to learn two Indian languages(specifically Kannada, Since I am a Kannadiga) and feel so good. I know a lot of North/South Indians(other than people living in Karnataka) who are living Bangalore for ages and does not even try to learn a single word of Kannada.
It is really astonishing after being here for a short period and learnt a new language.
Vandanegalu! Hope some of us take a cue from Chad’s story.
Ramesh
August 3rd, 2009 at 05:45 AM
Really awesome Chad.you rock! even i like learning new languages and even tried learning Korean recently. was surprised to find it has so much in common with Indian languages.
nimmanu beti agi thumba santosha ayithu chad :).
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August 3rd, 2009 at 01:04 PM
Inspiring, Chad. Thanks! Hey, if you had to do it all over again (or, for those of us state-side), how would you go about learning Hindi?
-bill
August 3rd, 2009 at 02:27 PM
Thanks for the comments, all.
Bill, that’s probably a topic for a long post but for a start:
1. Learn to read and write Devanagari script. It doesn’t take long, it’s very rewarding, and it teaches you the phonetics of the language. There are sounds we’re not used to hearing as Americans, and learning the script will make those differences explicit and help you memorize them. 2. Rosetta Stone Hindi. I used the first module of it. Really great way to incrementally learn. 3. Watch lots of Bollywood movies. 4. Find some Hindi speakers and ask them to help you practice. They’ll most likely be delighted :)
August 3rd, 2009 at 03:33 PM
Wow..I need to get on the ball about learning Japanese. Just thinking of all the opportunities I could be passing by isnt the most fun…
August 3rd, 2009 at 05:12 PM
Inspiring story Chad!!! Thanks for sharing :)
August 3rd, 2009 at 05:30 PM
Thank you for sharing your experiences. I teach English communication skills to professionals in Silicon Valley, and I used to teach English to high school students in Japan. I understand how important a second (or a third) language can be for one’s life and career. We have classes in which people from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East interact and learn from one another. It’s a beautiful thing that can only happen when there is a common language. I also have clients whose English improvement has helped them get promotions.
In my personal life I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to take Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) from a teacher who only spoke Japanese. Because of my (very limited) Japanese, I was able to participate in exhibitions and judged competitions.
If a person wants to learn to speak a new language, there are so many resources online and even in his or her community that can help. If you can’t travel outside of your country to learn a second language, there are still ways you can learn. Go online and find a class or conversation partner, watch movies in that language, listen to Internet radio or podcasts in that language, find a conversation partner from your own community, join a meetup group that uses the language.
The biggest hurdle is the fear of failure. My advice is to just go for it!
August 3rd, 2009 at 05:30 PM
That is a great story and I completely agree. On a side note I’m also a Japanese, German, American which is a strange combination to come by.
August 3rd, 2009 at 07:01 PM
I think the failure of Americans to learn foreign languages is a symptom of a bigger issue… There are many who have never been abroad, and aren’t even curious about foreign lands. This seems to foster an isolationism and patriotic machismo that is positively dangerous! Much kudos to you, Chad, for learning Hindi.
August 3rd, 2009 at 09:01 PM
Learning a new language takes time but is fantastic ! Good luck guys ! I’m French and try to speak English, Spanish, German, some Dutch and Italian. The hardest thing is to practice all those languages, even if in Europe we’re helped by the proximity of foreign countries ! Suerte, bonne chance, anyway !
August 3rd, 2009 at 09:37 PM
What a great story. I am South Africa that currently only speaks English, even though I studied German Business for my college course. I am moving to Spain shortly so I have started one to one Spanish classes which I am enjoying. Every year I set myself a task to learn/achieve something new and this year it was two become fluent in a language other than English and to start my own online business. So hopefully with determination I will became a bilingual online entrepreneur. Adios
August 3rd, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Dude that was a great story. you inspire me to keep learning Japaneses, my mother and I love your story, i had to translate it for her so that she could understand but none the less she loved it. Congratulations and hope you could publish a book and inspire my generation to be adventurous and enjoy other cultures.(The world is a playground we all know that as kids but somewhere in the journey of our life’s we just forget it)
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 PM
That’s an amazing story. I already know two languages, but both are native to me in this country, so a story like this makes me want to learn a third language. It’ll be helpful in my travels, plus the time and effort needed to learn it is probably good for my brain. And even if I don’t experience something as major as you did, it’s still going to open me up to another world of experiences…
August 4th, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Hello sir,
I am a journalist working for a Bangalore-based newspaper called DNA. We have a column on an expat living in this city, every Monday. I wanted to interview for the same next week, but I’m not sure if you still live in Bangalore or not. Could you please tell me if you do. And, could you also send me a contact number where I can call you and discuss more?
Thank you, Nidhi Bhushan 09739012429
August 4th, 2009 at 02:05 PM
Hi Nidhi. I don’t live in Bangalore anymore. If you want to contact me, you can use the email address listed on this site. Thanks!
August 4th, 2009 at 04:39 PM
Watching my roommate interact with my Spanish friends and meet other people in my area through speaking Spanish has been the best motivator to start learning Spanish. I think once there is a social element tied to the language your learning, the feeling of the language comes to life. That’s why I think making friends and traveling with someone who speaks the language you want to learn is the most effective way to master it.
August 5th, 2009 at 03:23 AM
Great post!!! Thanks for sharing!
August 7th, 2009 at 08:32 PM
This is really inspiring. I am Indian. But other than my mother tongue (Tamil) I donno any other language here. Not even Hindi. The last four years I was studying in Bangalore, but can’t say more than a couple of words in Kannada :(
Its so inspiring to see you being so open to learning languages. The one thing that motivates me to learn a new language is that ‘I can meet up and get to know a lot of new people’ and the experiences you’ve shared just assures me of that.
Thanks for the inspiration!
August 22nd, 2009 at 05:46 PM
You bring up an extremely good point in the context of my current situation in Iraq… I would say that a majority percentage of the civilians that work on base here are either from India or speak Hindi. I think I may very well be inclined to hop on Rosetta Stone tomorrow and check things out!
August 23rd, 2009 at 06:26 PM
Anthony, interesting! Are these civilians people who have moved their to work for contractors or what? I’m surprised to hear there are so many Indians there.
September 25th, 2009 at 06:42 AM
Hi Chad, thanks for sharing, well I wanted to learn different languages as well, so I was glad to have a spanish and nihonggo classes during my college days, but surely that wasn’t enough, I envy you for the fact that you have used your newly learned language to really understand people. Maybe that is really the point of it. Good job.
October 14th, 2009 at 01:57 PM
Respect…what a great story. This spreads a lot of motivation. When you are young, it is really easy to learn a new language, but if you become older it is much more harder.
November 12th, 2009 at 02:17 AM
Thanks a lot for sharing your amazing story. It really touched my feelings My mother language is Spanish. Even though I have been reading technical & science fictions books in English, I had not have the opportunity to speak a fluent English until I moved to US. I’m still learning English and making mistakes and typos all the time (so sorry if I make now). But what really impulse me to improve my English in these two years were two main things. The first one was that I got really sick few months after I arrived to this Country. My English wasn’t good enough to express my symptoms and in consequence, I was misdiagnosed many times. Being in that scary difficult situation alone and away from home gave me enough courage and perseverance to keep trying. Believe me, Interpreters aren’t very helpful when you have to deal with Health Insurances,Doctors, Laboratories, HR, etc. I was determinate to figure out what was wrong and get my health back.
The second one is that I love what I’m doing. I’m a programmer, so I need to speak a better English to communicate with other and express my thinking and opinions and support my ideas. Having said that, I can share that it has been hard to be a programmer, a woman and a Latin! but not impossible. I have many funny stories about it. Yes, It’s difficult but not inconceivable. I’m learning English as an adult and I have piano classmates of my father’s age :D
I agree with Ismael. Knowing other language and cultures helps you to understand your own and others people backgrounds.
Have a good one Everybody.
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February 11th, 2010 at 08:33 AM
I think learning a new language has one more advantage. There are various ideas and emotions which can only be expressed precisely in only one specific language.
March 28th, 2010 at 05:01 PM
Hi Chad, i totaly agree with you. Learning a second or zhird language changes you and your thinking about live. It changes your few to things. Iam german and learn english and spanish in school, but Hindi is “a horse of another color”. Completly different culture, so it influence also the language.
Great story, thx chad
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July 14th, 2010 at 03:12 PM
Loved your story. I am from Bangalore and had a similar experience in Brazil ! I did not learn the language as well as you did but trying to really helps. That experience and articles like yours keep the inspiration going.
Bangalore is a relatively safe town. You might not be able to walk the back streets of Mumbai…I am sure you know that now … but that is for any other intrepid seekers out there !
Nivu article yestu channagidhe ! Bala santosh !