I think you made a mistake. When your child was scared of Hindi, instead of making him comfortable and find a way to create interest in Hindi, you switched over to french. Thus multiplying his fear, which forever haunts him. The moment he hears "Hindi " he shrieks and shudders with fear as if he has seen a night mare.
Nah.. I don't know Hindi.. I can teach him French. I made my decisions based on both our comfort levels. He is not the only one to say the truth 3/4 of his class has shifted to French when the option was offered.
That is not my point, my point is inculcate a love for Indian languages.. not make the syllabus heavy and scare children.. its a language.. speak it, get them to love it. This is where we seem to fail.
Hindi being my native language so I am more comfortable in expressing in it than in any other language.
It depends on which place you live at. If you live in a metropolitan city with many non Hindi speaking people, you will get habituated to English.
I live in Delhi where most of the people know Hindi but that's true people get habituated according to the environment.
Then, your Job is easy. Living in Delhi is an advantage for you. Delhi is a Mini India. You can have all types of people from Kanyakumai to to Kashmir.
You love a language the more you get acquainted with it. Speaking a language is the only way to get comfortable with it. I agree it is easier where everyone speaks the same language.
Mother tongue is for household communications, English is for earning bread and butter and Hindi for communication with outsiders. Additional language learning depends on some real good reason because it is not easy to take extra burden. Learning a foreign language at the cost ofa an Indian language is again a economical decision
