I searched for a nonRussian squadron for so long . finally . <| sep |> The reason you understand Hindi because you know Urdu is that Hindi has borrowed a lot of words from languages like Urdu and English because of the the Mughal and British periods of history . Hindi essentially derives mostly from Sanskrit but most of those words called tatsam are colloquial and out of usage now . However their derivatives called tadbhav are the most popular once . Which means if you know Sanskrit you ' d understand a lot of Hindi . Now the other half of Hindi is comprised of words from folk languages and other languages called as deshaj and videshaj means ' of foreighn ' . This is the part that borrows heavily from Urdu and the reason that your knowledge of Urdu gives you an understanding of Hindi