A college in England has introduced a course in Hinglish for its students

Hinglishj is being offered as an 'official' coirse in Portsmouth college from September 2018.

From Jab We Met to Love Aaj Kal and Jab Harry met Sejal, Hinglsih has been a part of our everyday lingo. And now we can literally all clap our hands because well, in England has decided to offer a course in Hinglish. I mean we can never quite forget the impact of Hinglish in Delhi Belly and 'Bhag DK Bose' now, can we?So, keeping in mind that India is fast catching up everywhere, especially with the Hinglish, Portsmouth College launched a pilot programme of Hinglish.

"We were quite surprised to receive the interest and caseload when we launched the pilot project. Its feedback means that we will offer a longer duration course to all students in the next academic year from September," said James Watters, the head of curriculum at the college. (Hindustan Times)

It is being taught by Indian-origin teacher Viraj Shah. Most of the students planned to go on to universities for degree courses that include a year of placement, with the possibility of completing the year in India.

Bhag DK Bose became a cult anthem for its wordplay as did the movie Delhi Belly for having exclusive shows in Hinglish.Photo courtesy YouTube.

"It was really interesting to learn about a new culture and how businesses operate, particularly in the technology industry. I would like to visit India, particularly Mumbai. I have never seen a Bollywood film but some were suggested in the course," said student Evelyn Murray.

Watters said the idea was to offer the course, included in the college's modern business language and culture programme, to raise awareness of Hinglish and how it is used in society and business."The course's focus was on culture and reference to headlines and text in adverts, films and newspapers. Students learned some Hindi and practiced speaking during lesson time individually, in pairs and as a group," Watters said.Hinglish involves seamless code-switching between Hindi and English and it is not the same as Indian English.

An initial cohort of 18 students attended the Hinglish sessions on a regular basis, who are now being approached for their views on how the course could be further developed. It will then become a regular feature from the 2018-19 academic year as part of the Modern Business Language & Culture programme at Portsmouth College in Hampshire.

So what are some of the words they were being taught?

The title of Jab We Met is a clasic example of everyday Hinglish we use. Photo courtesy YouTube.

According to their analysis, Hinglish is easier to learn than Hindi because it is taught using Roman letters rather than the traditional Devanagari script. Some of the Hinglish words that the students were made familiar with include "prepone", or to bring forward, "airdash", or going somewhere in a hurry, and "timepass" or something that is a pastime.

The growing use of Hinglish has prompted linguists such as David Crystal to suggest that it may even outnumber the number of English-speaking people across the globe as India's influence increases on the world stage.

Wouldn't it be fun to have firangs going , "that toh I know, or "Do this "na", hai na?