see, I watch loads of Bollywood movies, but you don't need much Hindi to understand them because they switch into English every few sentences and that's enough for me to follow the plot
years ago as a Muslim I became used to the sound of Urdu and could understand bits of it when spoken to me (enough to understand instructions given to me in the mosque which was llike 90% Pakistanis), but never got as far as reading it or making the sentences myself and most of it was guessed through the similarity to Arabic, which I have a very rudimentary grounding in
