Heh--I admit I've never thought Hindi sounded anything like German or English to me either, whenever I've heard it. But when S said, "My name is..." in Hindi it sounded almost like English! I think it's more just that it sounds more like English than a romantic language or an Asian one. I'm probably more used to hearing romantic languages so it stuck out. It also makes me think of something I read once on cathexys's lj once, where people were asking what languages sounded like to a non-speaker. When asked what English sounded like somebody said it sounded, "Like German, but with less spitting and a lisp."

The rest of them all know at least three Indian languages and one foreign one...I feel like such a loser sometimes :D

You have found a home on this lj, then. I just listen longingly to people who are multilingual here.:-) But now, when you say you speak English at home, are you in India or someplace else? Your family sounds positively dizzying to listen to, I have to admit. But also cool-I love the differences in the way different groups speak languages, like the kind of French you'd speak depending on where you were from. Ramble more!