Hindi in the cities is interesting, it can turn into a 50-50 blend of English and Hindi, with English used for most nouns, and sentences strung together with Hindi otherwise.

Having said that, actual conversational skills in English were lacking even in Delhi. You can throw out words and hope there's enough of a shared vocabulary to get ideas across, but the majority of people aren't fluent, or even conversational in it. I've heard the Southern part is somewhat better though, as Hindi is less pervasive, and English is used more often as a second language if you travel out of state and the likes.

Different indeed. Every sentence sounds like a question with a small delay before the last word of the sentence.

I have no idea why this is, but you can see it in literally any Indian engineering lecture recording on YouTube.

Hmm, this is interesting. Never realized this was a thing. Care to submit a specimen link?

I find this quirk quite endearing for some reason.

> It definitely does not inspire confidence they know the topic they are teaching.

Only to people who judge competence based on diction.