"Originally from Marseilles, Columeau left France to study Hindi in India in 1993, but quickly grew disillusioned with the “clerical” form of the language he was being made to learn, and switched to Urdu two years later.
“I learnt it on my own – by then I was conversant in Hindi so there was a book which was about how to transliterate Urdu to Hindi,” he told AFP.
“Then I was practising my reading. After about one year I was able to read books,” he said.
He later moved to Pakistan with the International Committee of the Red Cross where he worked primarily as a translator in troubled areas."
Read carefully. He learnt both in India and later moved to pakistan.
