This is how I’m spending all my free time these days:
Yep, I’m still learning Hindi. As the screenshot shows, I’m currently at the top of the uppermost league in the system: the Diamond League!
It’s going to be a hard fought battle tomorrow between me and Ráski as to who finishes on top, but being as he/she (anyone here from Hungary who can tell me a gender from a name?) goes to bed an hour before me, I think I have a good chance.
Hope I haven’t put a goat in my mouth by saying this.
Good luck! It’s an interesting language!
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Yes it is! But a rather frustrating one too. Someone once told me that you have to translate the whole sentence as a whole rather than try to get the meaning from translating each individual word. I’m struggling with that, but I’m sure I’ll get it with practice.
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Definitely!! I struggled with Hindi at school and relied heavily on Google Translate which wasn’t a good idea😂
It’s quite a bit like English in that manner. You have to understand what it means from the context it is being used in rather than the word-by-word meaning. I watched cartoons to get the hang of it 😂
Hope it works out for you!!
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Cartoons. That’s genius! Can you recommend me a good Hindi cartoon (preferably with English subtitles) that I can use to improve my understanding of Hindi?
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I used to watch them on a local channel and they didn’t have subtitles. I used to watch Doraemon in Hindi, it was a bit boring but I still got some learning done.
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Okay, I’ve decided that you’re a prodigy of some sort. There, doesn’t it feel good to be put in a box by some guy living 6,321 miles away. 😀
Okay, okay – I’m sorry. Kinda.
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I’m just an average teen😂
It never feels good to be put into a box. But since I (and a lot of other kids) have been put into one box after the other throughout my life, I’ve grown accustomed to it.
No worries!!
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Tell me about these boxes of which you speak. That actually sounds really interesting!
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It’s much like what you said. They’re mainly assumptions, expectations or misunderstandings. People just have to categorise everyone into certain categories to judge them or get to know them better.
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Specifics please. I need concrete examples (which is different from examples of concrete). 😀
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Like how teachers just expect something from a student, without knowing the student well. The student is then put into this teacher’s box of expectations.
It’s fine for teachers to want good results but the students shouldn’t feel stressed to live upto her wishes.
That’s the simplest concrete example I can think of😂
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Nah, that’s not an example, that’s still a general description.
Here’s a description: books are wonderful things.
Here’s an example: I read a book called Sense and Sensibility and the power of observation of the author blew me away with regard to her insightful dissection of the relationship between people and their pets.
See? One talks about all books generally and the other talks about a specific book and says something meaningful about it.
I’ll shut up now. 😉
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That’s a great example!! But I don’t know how to give an example like that.
Besides, unlike a book, these boxes are figurative and everyone would have slightly differing definitions of them.
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Oh, you can’t be throwing words like ‘figurative’ around and expect anyone around here to understand them! I have to look stuff like that up on the internet! 🙂 And I have a first class education!!
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All the best, Robert. Keep up the good Hindi.
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Thanks, Kamal. I’m trying my best. 🙂
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Great 👌☺️☺️☺️. Welcome Robert
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Happy that your happy. 😉
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Thank you so much Robert.
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Impressive!
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I’m sure that you have a more languages than English that you’re fluent in, Cindy. Care to share? 🙂
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Yes, of course Robert. Spanglish.. lol. 🤣
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Ha – perhaps I’m reading more into Georgakas than I should. 😂
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शुभकामनाएँ!!!
xD
All the best, hope you get hang of it soon, then we can chat in it
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Oh, it’ll be a good while before I can chat in Hindi. Two problems: every single phrase I know goes straight out of my head as soon as I get the opportunity, and: I just don’t know how to say the important stuff in Hindi, such as: ‘Holy crap, why are you speaking so fast!’ or ‘Could you repeat that please but say it as if you’re talking to a retarded turtle.’ 😀
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All the best Robert! 😀
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Thanks!
I ended up topping the Diamond League and so your best wishes worked. 😉
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Best wishes👍🙏
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Hey, thanks so much. Your best wishes were so good that I finished top of the Diamond League! 😀
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Thanks to u also…nice complement for me😁
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My Mum speaks Hindi and it is not an easy language to learn, but it seems like you are doing well so all the best for it!
Feel free to read some of my blogs 🙂
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Thanks, Niraj – it’s nice of you to visit my humble blog. Hope that you’re able to come back again soon.
Do you speak Hindi too?
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Keep moving..take a PHD in Hindi👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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Just finished a Masters in Creative Writing and so my wife is not authorising any expenditure for education as yet. 🙂
But maybe later.
What is your PhD in?
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Nonoo Robert, I just told like you can take a PHD in Hindi..
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Let me practice it for a few decades and then we’ll see how I feel. 😀
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Goodness! It is pretty hard to get the hang off!
Learnt it some time back, such a wonderful language it is. 😀
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Do you get much chance to use it? 🙂
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Oh yes! A lot of my friends speak Hindi so it’s easier to understand then chatter away!
Then of course the Bollywood movies. My favourite part though is understanding hindi songs. They’re like really good.
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I still don’t get how they can all burst into song half way through an epic battle-scene in Bollywood movies. Doesn’t anyone in India find that to be a trifle incongruous?
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