Hindi

Sep 30 • 10
Namaste, Hindi

I work on my Hindi script while bemoaning my fragile conversational skills.

Sep 26 • 10
Fifth Avenue

I run a race and mull over my Hindi strategy.

Sep 24 • 10
I Don’t Know How to Be Polite

When you study languages on your own, strange omissions occur.

Sep 22 • 10
A Computer Is a Computer Is a Computer

Certain words sound the same from one language to the next.

Sep 19 • 10
Software Can Be Frustrating

Sometimes voice-recognition software is persnickety.

Sep 18 • 10
Multilingual Metropolis

In which I am grateful for New York.

Sep 17 • 10
Rosetta Stone Party (Er, Press Event)

In which I hang out in SoHo with TOTALe folks.

Sep 13 • 10
Ghosts of Languages Past

Memories of previous languages studied haunt my current language (in a good way).

Sep 11 • 10
Gender Is Not Convenient

Gender blocks the path of language learners. My path anyway.

Sep 8 • 10
Self-Consciousness in Language Learning

It helps to be an extrovert when you are learning a new language.

Sep 7 • 10
Hindi Writing Lessons

On Hindi writing hurdles.

Sep 5 • 10
74th Street, Queens

A field trip to Little India.

Sep 3 • 10
Look-Alike Letters

Quite a few Hindi letters bear a strong resemblance to other Hindi letters.

Sep 2 • 10
Relative Clauses and German Sausage

I learn to construct relative clauses in Hindi and discover I can still read German menus.

Sep 1 • 10
On Families and Noses

Two interesting features of Hindi: (1) a robust vocabulary to describe family members and (2) nasalized vowels.

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