Tag Archives: Hindi Language
Conquering Hindi through Bollywood Music Posted by Rachael on Sep 19, 2016
This week, we’ll discuss a song from a movie mentioned in last week’s blog: Lagaan (in English: “tax” or “rent”). Listening to music in the target language is a fun and easy way to learn new words and phrases and will help you remember them longer. An added benefit of discussing this particular song (and all…
Learning Hindi through a Dangerously Addictive Show Posted by Rachael on Sep 12, 2016
नमस्ते सब लोग (Greetings, everyone)! मेरा नाम रेचल है (My name is Rachael). आजकल (these days), I’m a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and I study modern Hindi-Urdu and Bengali literature. I became enamored with Hindi and Indian culture when I was 13 through watching Hindi films. Of course, I watched plenty…
A Flavor of Hindi Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jul 30, 2015
Let me show you some of the slang words in Hindi that you may hear from some section of the society in India. These are not the taboo words, they are used by the illiterate masses and lower section of the society. These words are also sporadically used in Hindi films and literature, but rarely…
Colloquial Hindi Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jul 29, 2015
I have an important, yet an interesting topic for you. Let me show you the colloquial Hindi with some example. How colloquial form of Hindi is divert, twisted, turned from Standard Hindi. Of course, these are only some of the observations to keep this post short and crisp 🙂 Use of या (ya) Suffix Some of…