What level of Hindi is considered fluent?

On September 14, 1949 under Article 343, the Indian Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi as the country’s official language. Since  then the day has been celebrated as Hindu Divas. Luckily it could also so garner the much needed support from the literary stalwarks such as Maithili Sharan Gupt, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Beohar Rajendra Simha, Kaka Kalelkar, and Seth Govind Das were hard-lobbied for the cause. Hindi is the fourth language of the world and spoken by up to 250M people as their mother tongue.

Before we understand what level of Hindi is considered to be fluent, it is important to understand the primary difference between fluency and proficiency. Proficiency is the official fluency of a language. If your aim is to be proficient in a language, you must master all the four skills required to learn a language as well as excel in the official tests that are conducted for the evaluation of the same. Proficiency ultimately remains the same around the globe. Once you excel in the test that is mandatory, you will be provided with the certification or a diploma that is permanent and can be used as proof of your proficiency in the said language anywhere around the world. On the other hand fluency is pretty subjective in nature and varies from person to person. What might be fluent to me might not be fluent to you, on the other hand what might be fluent to you might not be fluent to me. Essentially if I consider speaking Hindi to be fluent in Hindi, then that is fluency for me. On the other hand if you consider reading Hindi to be fluent, then that is your level of fluency. In order to truly understand your level of fluency, you need to 1st evaluate your end goal. What are you truly mastering this language for? Basically, if you’re mastering this language to attempt and pass the test, then as previously mentioned you are trying to achieve proficiency and not fluency. On the other hand, let’s say, you wish to speak Hindi like a native. Then your end goal is to be able to master all the speaking skills of the Hindi language. Then in that case, Your level of fluency will depend on how well you can speak the language.

A part of India Hindi also finds extensive use in countries such as Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago and Nepal.  The current lingua franca of the world English has a number of words borrowed from Hindi such as loot, bungalow, khaki, avatar, guru, jungle, karma, mantra, nirvana. Hindi has been derived from Sanskrit language and thus both the languages continue to use the Devanagari Script used originally to write the Sanskrit language. Each Hindi alphabet has its own distinct and independent sound. The Hindi script is phonetic, thus words as written just as they are spoken. Hindi gets its nane from the Persian word ‘Hind,’ which means ‘the land of the river Indus.’ In 1881, Bihar took over the Urdu language from Hindi, making it the first Indian country to take over Hindi. The first ever Hindi type fighters were invented in 1930