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An Indo-European or Indo-Aryan language, Hindi is spoken widely in the central and northern part of India. The language, or its dialects, is spoken by about 41 percent of the people of India. Several hundred languages are spoken by the people of India. The estimated number of language used is 415. In terms of language groups, the Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by about 74 percent of the population while the Dravidian languages are spoken by 24 percent, the Austro-Asiatic (Munda) by 1.2 percent and the Tibeto-Burman by 0.6 percent of the population. Some languages spoken by sections of people living in the Himalayas are not yet classified.

Hindi is the official language of India besides English. There are 22 scheduled languages in India and Hindi is one of them. Fiji, where some 48 percent speak dialects of Hindi, has Hindi as one of its official language. The origin of Hindi is said to be Prakrit. It developed local dialects like Braj and Awadhi and evolved into Khari Boli later in the tenth century. Khari Boli, the dialect spoken in the Delhi region, got Sanskritised to become Hindi. It also got Persianised to become Urdu. The persianisation was over a period of a thousand years when the region was ruled by the Mughal kings whose official language was Persian. The neighboring countries of Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan also understand Hindi. Some sections of people in Uganda, South Africa and Singapore also speak the language. After Mandarin (Chinese), Hindi-Urdu is ranked second in terms of the most spoken language, spoken by about 429 million people. A broad variety of Hindi languages including Bundeli, Brij Bhasha, Khari Boli, Kannauji, Awadhi, Maithili, Marwari, Bhojpuri, Magadhi and Bihari languages together is considered to constitute the Hindi language.

Hindi language has been standardized for teaching in the schools across the country. The English, Persian and Arabic words have been removed from Hindi and the language further Sanskritised to develop and promote the official Hindi by the government. But the Hindi used by the media is more neutralized. The government of India has the official policy of encouraging people to learn to speak Hindi.

Hindi and Urdu were two standardized form of what is actually one language in the early 19^th century with Hindi being identified with the Devanagari script while Urdu was identified with the Perso-Arabic script. Devanagari script was originally used to write Sanskrit. It was only later that Hindi and Urdu began to be treated as separate languages.

Body language is non-verbal language. People also communicate to others using gestures, postures and other physiologic signs. The non-verbal language is continuously being sent out by humans to communicate specific and definite messages such as aloofness with crossing his or her arms across the chest, hostility with blank or harsh facial expressions, attention with consistent eye contact, disbelief with scratching the chin or averted gaze or touching the ear, boredom with tilted head or unfocused eye contact, interest with extended eye contact, and lying with excessive blinking. The body language is also interpreted with such meanings. However, these are at best an observed pattern that is indicative. The body language when combined with gestures and verbal language can mean something different.

Messages are communicated by both hands and legs. Readiness is communicated by putting hands on the knees. Impatience is shown with hands on the hips. Self-control is indicated by locking hands behind back. Confidence is expressed by locking hands behind head. Indifference is shown by putting leg over the arm of the chair. Crossing arms shows submissiveness. An interest in a direction is indicated by pointing legs and arms in that particular direction.

The extent of non-verbal communication within all types of human communication is not precisely concluded. Opinions differ. Some say that it is as high as 80 percent of all communication while some put it between 50 to 65 percent. Attitudes as well as feelings, it is believed, are best expressed with body language. Putting together the words, the tone of the words spoken and the body language together could give a better understanding of what the person is communicating. There are many gestures that are natural, unintentional and spontaneous. These include such gestures a finger lock, an eye rub, a nose itch, a chin rest, a lip touch, an ear scratch, and a head scratch. Whether these have any meaning is what many are trying to find out. Serious attempts to read body language are going on in the form of intensive and extensive research.

There are many benefits from using the knowledge about body language. It makes it possible to better read and understand another person. It could assist in confidence building. Communication skills can be sharply improved. It has potential use in the diagnosis as well as treatment of metal health problems.

Learning Spanish can be done even over the internet, through various chat rooms where you can talk to others. This type of learning will be completed with other learning types, like real life courses or multimedia lessons. There are some websites that even support direct chatting where you can hear the other participants through headphones and can speak to them with the help of a microphone.

The advantage of Spanish chat rooms is that they let you experience everyday conversations directly from native speakers. It’s very useful when you want to exercise you already gained Spanish skills. Still, no matter how nice a conversations should turn up to be, don’t give phone numbers and address to strangers from these chat rooms. When you feel that a conversation has taken a wrong turn you can immediately close the chat window. Despite all these precautions, you can have real fun during a learning Spanish chat and at the same time practice the language.

Across the internet, you can find various chat rooms that are especially designed for such purposes. Here there are many people that want to find English natives while being Spanish native speakers. Native speakers of a certain language will look for their appropriate chat room and wait to be contacted by speakers of the target language. Despite popular believe, in these chat room you won’t be finding any young people. The age range varies a lot here and browsing through various internet location will surely lead you to your conversation partner. The great thing is that you will learn even when all you have to talk about is your new baby and her Combi Shuttle car seat.

The best thing about learning a language in internet chat room is that there’s no embarrassment reason, no matter where you might be at that moment. This educative chats are unfortunately not enough and they will only improve communication skills, for grammar and accent rules you will have to take some special courses. Pronuncation is better understood when you are speaking to people that already know it. In these chat rooms you will also be able to learn a little bit about Spanish culture and traditions next to learning the language. If you can introduce yourself in some Spanish social environments you will sooner be able to speak the language fluently.