<p>I'm from india, so I'm naturally fluent in Hindi. Will the adcoms frown upon the fact that I didn't try to learn a 'new language' ? I'm taking a gap year so I have the time, but here's the thing. Only 3 people chose Hindi as their language in the last batch while the common ones like French, German were chosen by 30-40 people.
Will taking Hindi be advantageous as I'll be adding to the diversity of the class ? Or should I just stop being lazy and learn German instead ?</p>
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<p>So if you are from India and speak Hindi as your native language I assume you learned English which would be your foreign language? Unless you want to major in languages that’s two which is good I think??? Or if you were brought up in an English speaking country and learned Hindi for the sake of heritage that works too I think, as long as you can speak and write it. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>I think you are fine. I know a lot of Israeli-Americans who put Hebrew as their foreign language. Brush up on your English (American) though. A lot of Indians I know thought they had fluency in English until they board an American airline on their way to the US. They couldn’t understand a word the flight attendants said and no one understood their spoken English.</p>