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Americans taking to learning Hindi in a big way
Americans are taking to learning Hindi in a big way. Nearly 80-90 per cent of enrolments at graduate level language programme in US universities are Americans.
In first and second-year Hindi the percentage of white American students is 10-20 per cent but at the advanced levels the percentage is 80-90 per cent, mostly graduate students, Herman Van Olphen, Professor, Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin, said.
The heritage (Indian background) student percentage is higher at the lower levels because most of them take Hindi on the side while majoring in pre-med or other fields, he said.
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