This article published on 26th Nov 2006 says that Americans are now started learning Hindi. Nearly 80-90 per cent of enrolments at graduate level language programme in US universities are Americans. Quite intersting...
Also Chinese are also showing some intrest in learning Hindi. Few days back I was surfing through different channels on my TV, I saw a Chinse guy on one news channel. As a chinese learner I thought to try to understand what he was saying. But to my surprise he was talking in Hindi. Though at first it sounded more like chinese then hindi ;-), but it was infact hindi.
Many westners are now intrested in Indo & Asian languages, and vice versa. I think we are hiding towards a new globalized world, what do you say.. ????
But yes.. globalization is definately occuring!