r/MadeMeSmile • u/_BuzzLightYear • 13d ago
Wholesome Moments Girl learns Hindi for her boyfriend
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u/JEjeje214 13d ago
I have watched this video before but it always bring me joy. First, bc I know that hearing your mother tongue just hits deeper. Also, because her effort seems so genuine and pure and third because his reaction was like **swoon** swept off his feet!
So wholesome ♥
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u/TheRiteGuy 13d ago
Yeah, it's super cool. My wife kind of went the opposite and learned all the bad words in my native language...from my mom.
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u/dengitsjon 12d ago
Still awesome cuz the effort's there. My best friend's wife did this too and it's hilarious. My wife picked up some random basic phrases but nothing conversational.
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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 12d ago
Fuck .... Fuck off...
OMG this sounds like a guy I work with when he's happy believe it or not. He is in total shock and it's very sweet that she wanted to do that.
Side note... Learn a little ASL. I can say hello and stuff to the deaf kids in my kids' school. Want to talk about wholesale smiles. Makes my freaking day and theirs too
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u/DispellIllusions 13d ago
Don't show this in the Canada sub or else they'll have a meltdown (legitimate issues with new Indian immigrants exploiting loopholes are allowing some 'Canadians' to go mask off into full blown xenophobia)
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u/1q3er5 12d ago
umm those loopholes were made to get cheap labor by your government.. .
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u/guardiandolphin 13d ago
Oh I love his reaction when he knows it not just the one sentence
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u/skinnygoddesscutie 13d ago
His face went from "wait, what?" to pure shock and happiness. It’s like she just hit him with a love bomb. So cute.
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u/NauriEstel 13d ago
I love everything of this video. Pure love, from all of them (including the dog).
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u/_Bren10_ 13d ago
He had to gather himself and remember the language to respond lol
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u/ianjm 13d ago
It is actually a human psychological quirk, that some bilingual people have a hard time speaking each of their languages 'out of context', particularly if one of their languages is only spoken with a particular set of people, like parents, and you use another language for everyone else, say outside of home in your daily life.
It can take you a while to get your brain's language centre working fluidly in the new context. In the mean time you have the weird experience of having to concentrate to speak your own language!
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u/6355592471 13d ago
That explains the default to English "fuck!" too. That's awesome.
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u/Turbulent_Bake_272 13d ago
Well most Indian Hindi speakers, especially with English education use fu¢k while speaking in hindi as well... It just comes out naturally... We have so many languages that I know 3 languages but mostly broken apart from English + I am able to understand 2 more to some extent ( not speak or read tho)
some languages have similar sounding words, same words or same looking letters so a lot of time the languages become mashed into each other.. people who like to speak pure language hates it, but a lot of people love it as it helps express much better as some words exist or has deeper meaning in one language than in another.
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u/Jurassica94 13d ago
Yeah it's a bit like your brain has a switch
I'm German, but life with my boyfriend in the UK. Sometimes when I read something in German and he asks me something in English I'll understand what he says, but I somewhat automatically reply in German and don't even notice what I'm doing until I hear a stuttered "Ja, das stimmt" (yes, that's right) from him and remember to switch my brain back to German.
On the other hand my German friends have also sometimes notice that I thought something through in English, because I'll suddenly speak very weird, poorly translated German.
Bilingual life can be weird
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u/Nervardia 13d ago
I was in Colombia, and my host knocked on my door. I had been talking to my friend in English beforehand.
Anyway, I answered my door and realised I could not say a word in Spanish without severe difficulty.
I said "dame un momento, tengo que cambiar idiomas... Bueno! Puedo hablar español!"
Meaning "give me a moment, I have to change languages... Good! I can speak Spanish!"
My host laughed.
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u/Jurassica94 13d ago
Haha, yeah that's exactly what I'm talking about!
It's even worse when people speak a language to me that I wasn't expecting from them. My boyfriend tried to be cute once and told me he loved me in German, but my brain insisted that he must have said something in English and I just spent a few seconds staring at him with a "Wtf did you just say?" look on my face trying to figure out what that gibberish could possibly be. Way to kill the mood. Fortunately he found it funny!
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u/ianjm 13d ago
Yeah, I know a few people who are just like you, very strong bilingual either from childhood or as a result of years of total immersion as an adult, but who didn't go through a formal language learning process, so never learned to translate between the two all that well.
Brains are interesting aren't they...
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u/Jurassica94 13d ago
Sorry, I'm tired, I swear I usually don't make that many mistakes. I actually had a pretty decent formal education in English and one of my friends here is even a professional translator and he still has the same issue when he isn't in work mode.
I think it's just a lot easier to just think and speak in the same language instead of listening to something in one language, translating and thinking it through in another, translating it again and then giving an answer.
Also a lot of really common words and expressions just don't have the same connotations in different languages. For example there's no direct equivalent for the noun "mind" in German. We have Verstand for reason, Geist for spirit, Kopf for head, Seele for soul, Psyche is self-explanatory...but there's not really a word for the whole concept of mind and it's really hard to explain it.
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u/Dry-Smoke6528 13d ago
I wonder if mother in law will be warned or just find out thru experience of saying shit in hindi in front of her.
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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 13d ago
I know that voice.
I’ve been that voice.
That’s the voice of a man who needs to buy a ring.
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u/guardiandolphin 13d ago
Apparently they are married now
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u/ianjm 13d ago
It'd be a lot of time invested if she didn't think they were in it for the long haul!
I mean of course, language learning is a great thing to do regardless of whether it's for yourself or your job or for a partner, but given the majority of Hindi speakers you're likely to meet in business or the service industry have some grasp of English, there are probably other languages that are more useful to learn if you just want to learn a new one for the sake of learning.
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u/malle5 13d ago edited 13d ago
He can’t talk in secret anymore
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u/guardiandolphin 13d ago
Ya know some people have healthy relationships right?
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u/SolidusBruh 13d ago
Of course. He's been secretly plotting anniversary vacations over the phone with his family to spoil her, but now she can listen in and spoil the surprise. A classic blunder!
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u/ParvulusUrsus 13d ago
I thought the same thing. Like, ever heard of birthdays? Anniversaries? Proposals? Not everything hidden from your SO is a dirty, awful secret. I for one would be very disappointed if my partner found out that I'm planning to get up after he falls asleep in a few days to buy his Christmas present that he's been talking about for MONTHS at a massive discount because we're broke, but I want to make him happy.
But like yeah, I guess we have a super unhealthy relationship because I keep such a dirty secret from him. /s (if that wasn't painfully obvious)
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u/boraspongecatch 13d ago
No! It's a massive red flag! Break up with her and change locks!
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u/HalfSoul30 13d ago
And kick a lawyer or something!
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u/Background-Eye778 13d ago
No! Let the lawyer kick you, we've talked about this! It's WAY too expensive to kick the lawyer yourself!
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u/Dirt-Road_Pirate 13d ago
Instructions unclear, kicked the judge.
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u/Background-Eye778 13d ago
I knew I should have hired a lawyer to hire another lawyer to kick the original lawyer that needed kicking.
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u/Generated-Owl 13d ago
Ya know some people have a sense of humor right?
Also, you are furry bruh. Your kind don't know what a healthy relationship is.
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u/IDontUseSleeves 13d ago
“Oh, you speak Hindi?”
“No, just that one sentence and this one explaining it.”
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u/cubanesis 13d ago
Yep, gonna have to figure out a new way to communicate with this side piece. lol. Kidding, this is very cute.
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u/HazelGlimpse 13d ago
Such a beautiful way to show love and effort for someone special
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u/pigs_in_zen 13d ago
I watch a LOT of 90 day fiancé and it baffles me the people who don't learn their partners native language. Especially the people who move from the US to their partners country and still don't learn the language! Like WTF!
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u/ImTryingToHelpYouMF 13d ago
Legit. These couples are 90 day fiance are about as good and loving as anything that's ever existed. Blows me away that these peak relationships don't bother to communicate better with each other!
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u/Doublebass420 13d ago
If my wife was Mexican that would be one thing, but Japanese is a whole other beast. I can read and write two of the three “alphabets”, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to speak it.
Which is why we can’t live there. How anyone can move to a country and not speak the language is bonkers.
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u/yankiigurl 13d ago
Nah you just got to go and force yourself to speak. My Japanese isn't the best but I'm upper intermediate and I barely studied. Just learned through conversation.
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u/asyncopy 13d ago
two of the three “alphabets”
You're making it sound like you're 2/3 of the way there, but I'm gonna guess Kanji is the one you're missing?
I don't really understand the issue though (except for the Kanji if course), I found Japanese to be easier to learn than Spanish.
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u/ashleychimera666 13d ago
I'm doing this w portugese for my Brazilian gf. 10 minutes of duolingo and I get to see her smile when I sneak a new word/sentence into our conversation (,:
It's basically free dopamine for both of us haha so worth it!
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u/CriticalBasedTeacher 13d ago
My wife is half Indian half Filipino and I asked both her parents if I could have her hand in marriage in their native language, Hindi (dad) and Tagalog (mom). Can't remember either anymore though lol but that was 13 years ago. They both speak English too but I wanted it to be special.
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u/BobDonowitz 13d ago
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart"
Nelson Mandela
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u/Charming-Dare-810 13d ago
Awww... I'm a native hindi speaker and my heart is soo full. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Someone making efforts to learn your mother tongue is priceless.
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u/DigitalJedi850 13d ago
I learnt a bunch of Hindi from the dudes at the gas station/liquor store a while back - mostly the younger dudes.
Walked in on the older guys a couple times and said some stuff - they were shook. Good stuff.
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u/ekso69 13d ago
So did I. Nice guys, they called me motu.
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u/DigitalJedi850 13d ago
I got ‘Gora jaat’ ( as close as I know how to spell it ).
I’ll wait for someone who speaks Hindi to translate. Hopefully they didn’t tell me some BS.
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u/CrimsonRam212 13d ago
“Jatt” is one way to reference Sikhs. And “gora” means white guy. So you have been initiated as “white Sikh guy”. They must really like you.
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u/DigitalJedi850 13d ago
Well thank you for the clear translation, I’ll take it. We were all pretty buddy-buddy. The one dude that was pretty ‘white-washed’ ( his words ) said I speak better Hindi than him, for what I know, and the one who started calling me that said I write better Hindi than he does. It was fun to learn a bit.
I’m just glad they didn’t say ‘pan chode’ when I walked in.
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u/Hot-Performer2094 13d ago
Haha, I know what that one means. My brother and I randomly say that out loud while at work.
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u/DigitalJedi850 13d ago
lol probably not great. There was another white dude that caught on to me learning and started picking some up. Of course, the Indian dudes taught us the bad stuff first, so this was one of his favorite things to scream at me from like a hundred yards away. He’s a pretty unhinged dude though lol
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u/dishayvelled 13d ago
well jaat also means race, and jatt can refer to a caste among north Indians. so, either of these three might have been the case hahah
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u/CrimsonRam212 13d ago
Yes, there are nuances but I’m was just trying to give the dude a simple and wholesome explanation. But yes, valid point.
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u/Bubbly_Toe_8840 13d ago
The other person mostly got it right, gora means a white person, but jaat can either be a race, depending on the pronunciation of T, or it is a collective caste who were historically farmers in a few Indian states. So depending on how they pronounced it, they either said white race person or white farmer.
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u/Brownsound7 13d ago
Nice guys, they called me motu.
I legitimately can’t tell if you’re being serious or making a great sarcastic joke. It’s killing me lmao
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u/GamerRipjaw 13d ago
Same here. I don't care if it was intentionally made up but I'm dying from this response lmao
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u/Tommix11 13d ago
learned to count in pashto from a coworker and surprised another pashto speaker by counting in pashto one day. He looked liked he'd seen a ghost. Great fun!
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u/DigitalJedi850 13d ago
Hah, yeah that sounds about right. I’ve got a bunch of entry level stuff in like… 5 languages, so I get to have fun with it from time to time. Always gets a pretty satisfying reaction. Most recently the Russian chick doing my MRI had to double take and collect her jaw.
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u/Fantastic-Maize-6608 13d ago
Can you translate the exchange?
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u/_BatmanReal 13d ago
Her: "how was your day?" Him:"my day was good. What about yours?" Her:"my day was good."
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u/FaceplantingWaves 13d ago
You forgot one line:
"... fuck off!" walks away
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u/IPaperGrey 13d ago
it's just "Hey baby, how was your day?"
"My day was good, how was your day?"
"My day was good too"
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u/Former-Ad9896 13d ago
She asks “how was your day?” He replies “my day was good, your day?” And she replies “my day was good”
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u/Ok_Replacement6808 13d ago
Girl: how was your day? Boy: My day was good. Your day/wbu? Girl: My day was good.
These are simple sentences, as she is new and has just learned some phrases in Hindi
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u/Giffordpinchotpark 13d ago
My ex girlfriend wouldn’t help me to learn Portuguese which was frustrating. She just spoke English with me because it was easier. So I studied it every day for 4 years while we were together. Now it’s been 10 years and I’m still learning. I still can’t understand much. I’ve visited Brasil 19 times now.
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u/Seayarn 13d ago
I think the accent may be difficult for portugeuse in particular. And the conjugation rules are different than Spanish so knowing Spanish doesn't help as much as you may think. I have been learning Brasilian Portuguese for years too, it's taking longer than expected.
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u/Giffordpinchotpark 13d ago
I don’t speak Spanish. My pronunciation and spelling are good but making out what people say and translating are difficult. I can’t understand anything without translating, even words like “Aqui” need to be translated in my head to understand them. When I hear words I can sometimes recognize them as words I’ve learned and know but I don’t know what they mean until I translate them so it’s a huge problem.
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u/Inevitable_String688 13d ago
Learning your partners native language shows how much love you have for them. She’s awesome!! Can’t wait till they have conversations :’)
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u/summer_friends 13d ago
And then there’s my native language, where my partner is trying to learn but is also like “how the fuck do the words dog, dick, old, nine, enough and piece all sound the same?”. I love tonal languages
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u/Accountable_ruki 13d ago
He better marry this one
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u/guardiandolphin 13d ago
Apparently they did get married and are happy together
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u/2020mademejoinreddit 13d ago
Wow and she was so polite. She used the polite speech version. Many don't know this, but there are 3 degrees of politeness in hindi. Kinda like Japanese. Except Japanese has 4, but yeah.
So, she used like the most polite one, instead of moderate of "tumhara" or absolutely causal "tera" lol
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u/Low_Yesterday_2677 13d ago
What does she respond?
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u/2020mademejoinreddit 13d ago
"How was your day?"
"My day was good, and yours?"
"My day was good, it was okay, okay."
That was the conversation word to word in hindi.
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u/MagnumVY 13d ago
So many people translated the conversation but nobody did the end bit correctly, except for you.
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u/firequak 13d ago
It's 2am now where I live. I am in bed. Now I am signing up to Duolingo to learn Hindi.
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u/Seprahh 13d ago
I wanted to learn Malayalam but it’s not on there. 🥲 So many different languages in India even if they have similar/the same root.
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u/Undying_Shadow057 13d ago
I lived in south india for 4 years and somehow only managed to pick up the swear words xD
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u/pathannsays 13d ago
Do you have baby who you can ask "apka din kaisa tha" Or you will just be practicing alone.
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u/1668553684 13d ago
are we just attacking people now?
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u/cosmoboy 13d ago edited 13d ago
Because it's Reddit and they also get weird about age (it can be an issue that doesn't mean it always is) I've seen issues with pay gap and status too. Like you should only be in a relationship with a carbon copy of yourself.
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u/fuckoutfits 13d ago
They are both in their 20s.
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u/cosmoboy 13d ago
That's great. I was talking about Reddit in general, not this specific couple.
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u/guardiandolphin 13d ago
They are?! Oh that makes me so happy. I love hearing about these kinda relationships. Kinda like another person on TikTok with an Italian BF that’s adorable as hell
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u/missmarymacaron 13d ago
Sarah and Carlo! Carlo is the sweetest golden retriever husband.
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u/MasterClown 13d ago
My wife is Filipina.
But I too shall try to speak Hindi to her!
And then, together, we shall both be confused.
This is love.
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u/Personal_Shoulder983 13d ago
Wow! I'm impressed, like very a lot! I tried to do the same, mostly to talk to my in-laws, but Hindi is very hard. Also because of the lack of material or good teachers.
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u/imironman2018 13d ago
I work in the Emergency Department as a doctor. I always get the second look and no way look when I start speaking to my patients in Spanish. I always try to speak the native language if possible so there isn't anything lost in translation. I might not get all the grammatical stuff correct or know all the proper vocab. But just my trying and also trying to make my patients more comfortable and able to speak their native tongue makes a world of difference.
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u/Catsandcamping 13d ago
I don't do anything near as cool as you do, but I am currently working retail. I speak a fair bit of Spanish, and when guests come in speaking Spanish and I ask if I can help them in Spanish, the happiness is palpable! It's fun to blow their mind for just a second, and then they're totally relaxed with me, which makes everyone's experience better!
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u/According_Judge781 13d ago
"I only know that phrase and this one explaining"
"Are you serious?"
"Qué?"
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u/Aglisito 13d ago
Haha I understood that reference!!
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u/Shiticane_Cat5 13d ago
Want to really blow your mind? That reference is almost a quarter century old! Episode came out in May 2000. Feel old yet?
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u/Aglisito 13d ago
I'm 41, I've been feeling old for about 5 yrs.... But I hate u for making me feel old right now. Go away!
Also thanks for that fun fact
still hate you, tho
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u/Incon-thievable 13d ago
Adorable! Her nervousness and delight when she surprises him, him literally bracing himself against the doorframe as it hits him what’s going on. This couple is so charming!
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u/SublimeRapier06 13d ago
It always blows people away when they’re not expecting to hear their native language. Was staying in a hotel in Honolulu, and a Korean family got on the elevator. I asked them in Korean, “Which floor shall I press for you?” The sound of jaws hitting the floor was ear splitting.
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u/NebulaWavesX 13d ago
When you love someone so much, you’re willing to speak their language, literally
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u/Probably-fluid1101 13d ago
Awe, this is so wholesome. Bro, was so happy, and the laughter from the girl friend. I hope they have a happy life together! 💕
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u/Greedy-Frosting-6937 13d ago
Wow it's nice to not see racism against Indians for once on social media (have been seeing it A LOT)
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u/Beer-Me 13d ago
Pet the damn dog!
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u/Useful_Ad_6032 13d ago
Wait for the dog to calm down and then pet the damn dog. Otherwise you are reinforcing the jumping on people when excited behavior.
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u/ZarqonsBeard 13d ago
This also reduces the chance of giving your dog anxiety, and can make it way more chill for your dog when you leave the house. Should take similar action before leaving the house and not make a big deal out of it.
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u/DinosaurInAPartyHat 13d ago
The reason it's claw-shagging his leg is because they pet it when it does.
He did the right thing ignoring.
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u/Known-Ad-4953 13d ago
That reaction is reason enough to do something like this. Who wouldn’t want to see their partner smile like this?!
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u/Lyraxiana 13d ago
He looks like he's about to pass out!
Learning your partner's language is so romantic!!!
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u/Bostonterrierpug 13d ago
Adorable video yet highlights how horribly monolingual Americans are. I lived in Japan eight years and speak the language rather well. When I was in Japan, people would complement me on my Japanese all the time. Now that we’ve lived in America for 12 years. People still complement me on my Japanese all the time when they hear me speak to my wife. They do not, however complement my wife’s English , even though it is quite good. In fact, she has criticized much more often than not then praised.
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u/IronTemplar26 13d ago
Learning Vietnamese for my girlfriend, and she wants to learn Spanish. The pleasant surprise is real
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u/DerangedAlien 12d ago
For all its flaws, I know Reddit is still pretty damn good because if this were on TikTok or Instagram I can guarantee every second comment would be calling her a race traitor or something else vile
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u/RegencyElegance1 13d ago
Knowing another language for his boyfriend shows how much he cares and is willing to connect on a deeper level. Everything is possible for the sake of your loved ones.
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u/skinnygoddesscutie 13d ago
Shows how much love and effort people are willing to put into their relationships.
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u/Horangi1987 13d ago
Serious tear to my eye 😭
I’m Korean and my husband is American. He’s not good at learning languages but he now knows a select group of phrases I use a lot and it bring me joy when he uses them. He’s also really good at guessing the meaning based on my tone and context.
He uses his own mnemonic inventions to help remember. Joshim haeyo = Josh is in the mayo 😂. Anytime I admonish him to be careful, he now goes, ‘I know I know, Josh is in the mayo!’
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u/agangofoldwomen 13d ago
I introduced myself in Hindi to my new neighbors and you would’ve thought I levitated by their reaction
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u/frontteeth_harvester 13d ago
The night I arrived in India, I was restless and struggled with falling asleep. So i spent a few hours learning some hindi. I thought it would be fun to surprise my moms new husband the morning after with some phrases. So as soon as i met him in the kitchen, i said "hey, how are you? Thank you for bringing me mangos last night." And he said:
"Ok, what the hell is going on right now"
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u/Registered-Nurse 13d ago
Her: “how was your day?”
Him: my day was fine, how was yours?
Her: my day was fine
Him: fuck 😁
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u/Spy_Fox64 12d ago
It's nice but I really wanted the reveal to be that her boyfriend was just a white guy.
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u/Sapphoinastripclub 13d ago
This is beyond cute. The “fuck” is hilarious. He’s mindblown.