Hi! I’m looking for someone to help me with Hindi and Telugu!

I go by HG, I’m a 21 year old woman in the US and I work in healthcare research. I have been with my partner, who is from India, for 4 years now and would like to put sincere effort to learning the languages he and his family know. I took some Hindi classes in university so I have a basic knowledge of that but no experience in Telugu.

I’m looking for conversational skills - I don’t need to learn the writing system for Telugu (I already can read and write in Hindi/Devanagari). I mostly want to be able to participate in the chatter at the table when I’m with the family haha Oh, and I don’t want my boyfriend to know haha he teased me too much when I was learning Hindi two years ago (I learned the double meaning of dhakkan the hard way)

I have extensive experience in tutoring, though not ESL explicitly. I can offer American English in return for your guidance. Of course I don’t mind being friends either (: Or if you weirdly want to chat about cell biology haha :p

Regarding correspondence, I’m comfortable with Discord to begin with. I’d like to get to know you first over text and then maybe voice messages/voice calls scheduled after that. I work during the week so that may be something we’d have to work around depending on our availability.

Thank you very much in advance!