Meera
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I really want to learn Croatian. That sounds a bit weird I guess, but I've seen so many beautiful pictures of Croatia and I'd love to learn the language and visit someday!
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian sound so amazing. I would love to learn them!
I don't if this counts as uncommon but I've been learning Bengali for two years and I have not met any other learner of Bengali and most people I know have never heard of it. But it's not really uncommon because it has over 200 million speakers. But it's funny because beside language enthusiasts no one knows what it is when I tell them about it.
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Are you looking for talk shows or music?
It's not live, but maybe you can try Japanaradio. It's a music station though so it's just playing Jpop continuously.
Talk and music are both good! And that music station is great. I love the songs!
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Thanks! That helped a lot. I will try to follow this when I am speaking next time. Is it safe to guess that words like sea,earth,rain are of feminine nature?
Not always, earth is feminine but समुद्र (samudra) sea is masculine, बारिश (barish) rain is feminine and भूमि (bhoomi) earth is also feminine. I think there are some different words for all of these things though.
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Check out your cable service provider too, sometimes they have optional international channels and if you're lucky NHK or some other general Japanese broadcasting channel might be available. I have Comcast and some Japanese channels were briefly made available shortly after the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami.
Thanks Banianna! Yeah I have Comcast, apparently they don't have TV Japan available in my area. They do NHK but it broadcasts entirely in English.
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Yes I am very interested in uncommon languages. I'd love to learn Armenian, which I think it uncommon. I'd also love to learn Assamese and Sindhi, which I think are also uncommon.
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Hey kandikal, although there are many exceptions there are some fast rules in learning gender. For the most part words ending in -i (ई ) are feminine and words ending in -a(अ ) are masculine. These are considered masculine and feminine type 1 nouns. Of course there are many expectations. For example many Sanskrit loanwords like भाषा (bhasha) language, आशा (asha ) hope are feminine. There are also many nouns they don't follow this like आदमी (aadmi) man is masculine. Basically if they don't follow the hard and fast rules you have to learn by memorization. I try to learn by putting the gender next to every new word I learn, and on flashcards.
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I loved English Vinglish and Tare Zameen Par.
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Hey everyone, this is a little off topic, but I didn't want to open another topic. I was wondering does anyone have any links for popular live radios in Japan? I googled but the ones I found usually don't work. Arigato in advance
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I think French and German might be useful for a polyglot, mainly because many language books are writing in French and German. For example I really wanted to learn French so I could use assimil books.
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The only reason I understand it is because most of Afghan TV and music is in the Afghan dialect of Persian. I have always been surrounded by Iranian Persian too because Afghans tend to watch Iranian movies and Iranian tv. We also listen to Iranian music. It's the same reason why a lot of us understand Hindi/Urdu also because of the movies, tv and music. Plus many Afghans live in both Iran and Pakistan.
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Here is a list of some colors in Hindi. Enjoy!
रंग (rang)- Color
नीला (nila) - blue
लाल (laal)- red
स्लेटी (sleti)- gray
पीला (pila)- yellow
भूरा (bhura)- brown
काला (kaala)- black
नारंगी (narangi)- orange
गुलाबी (gulaabi)- pink, गुलाब (gulaab) means rose.
हरा (hara)- green
सोना (sona)- gold a little fun fact is that when you are referring to a loved one in Hindi, you can say सोनिये (soniye) or सोनिया (Sonia), it means like golden one, you will hear it very commonly in love songs, it's probably more prevalent in Punjabi but is also in tons of Hindi songs.
बैंगनी (baingani)- purple
चांदी (chandi)- silver, चाँद (chand) means moon.
सफ़ेद (safed)- white
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Hey Hedonologist. I learned by wrote but I used many books to help me. Two books that were extremely helpful for me were these:
Both these books were extremely helpful. I started learning Hindi a long time ago, I think I was 14 or 15, and I am 23 now, so there was this site that had Hindi video lessons on how to write the script, but I cant't seem to find anymore. You can use this site though:
http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm
Now I mainly just read and write in it for practice. But if you are learning I suggest that you practice at least thirty minutes everyday and practice as much as you can. If you can get a course book with audio listen to it and try to read a long. The script is 100 percent phonetic and is easy. After a while you will get the hang off it. It's also a very useful script to learn because afterward you can read Marathi, Nepali and Sanskrit. It will also be useful if you want to learn Punjabi, Bengali or Gujurati because the scripts all work similarly. I really love how easy the Hindi script was, I'm trying to learn Hiragana and Katakana right now and I'm struggling with it, I think Devanagari is much easier. Anyway good luck and if you need any help or any more advice don't hesitate to ask.
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I can understand Persian pretty well, but I can't speak it that well. I really would love to learn it well. Anyway if anyone else is interested in it, here are some good links for it:
http://www.chaiandconversation.com/
(to learn spoken Persian, this podcast is the best! I highly recommend it)
http://shahriar.tripod.com/persian/titlepage.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/languages/persian/
http://sites.la.utexas.edu/persian_online_resources/culture-video/greetings/
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Hello guys! Is anyone here also interested in Turkish? I'm not very good in Turkish but I love the language and I love Turkish culture. I think it is a beautiful language! If I find some sources, I will post them here.
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romba nandri
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It took me about a week, only because I didn't do it enough. But I agree I think the Arabic script could be learnt within two days.
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Bollywood is my favorite subject
I'm obsessed with Bollywood. I'm not sure which type of movies you like, but I will give you some of the Bollywood films that newbies to it seem to like the most. Bollywood films usually have a lot of dancing and singing are quite different from Hollywood films. Here are some of my favorites:
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai - This is a 90's movie and was very popular in India. It has Shahrukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji in it.
Devdas also starring Shahrukh Khan, with Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit. This film is amazing, it has tons of big dance numbers and beautiful color! It's based off of the Bengali novel of the same name.
Jab We Meet- A cute romantic comedy starring Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor. This is one of my personal favorites. It has really nice songs also.
Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham This is the same director as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. It also has some big song dance numbers, beautiful costumes and a cute story.
Band Bajaa Baraat This is a romantic comedy movie and it stars Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh. This is one of my favorites because it's very light and cute.
Kahaani Starring Vidya Balan, this movie is very different from traditional Bollywood and doesn't have any singing or dancing. It is about a pregnant woman looking for her husband in Calcutta.
Lootera A romance movie starring Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer Singh. This movie is also quite different from traditional Hindi cinema, but it is made well and has great acting.
Udaan Another social drama film that focuses on child abuse. It's a heavy movie, but well directed and written.
Bunty aur Babli- A comedy about two robbers. A really cute light hearted movie.
Chennai Express A funny movie starring Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. It's about a North Indian falling in love with a South Indian. It's very cute.
English Vinglish This stars Sridevi as a middle aged woman who goes to America to learn English. It's a wonderful film and even showed at the Toronto film festival.
Omkara A film based on Shahkesphere's Othello starring Ajay Devgan and Kareena Kapoor.
Saathiya Starring Rani Mukerji and Vivek Oberoi, is another romance movie, but is also very cute.
Paheli Starring Rani Mukerji and Shahrukh Khan about a ghost who takes over a man's body. (It's not a horror movie though.)
If you like older movies, these are some good ones:
Mughaal E Azaam- A classic starring Madhubala, about a Mughal prince who falls in love with a court dancer.
Umrao Jaan- based of an Urdu novel it follows the life of a courtesan.
Silsila
Sholay
Don
Awaara
I tried to recommend a variety of different films. If you have Netflix you can stream many of them with English subtitles. If you would like anymore recommendations feel free to ask!
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Sounds beautiful!
It's very interesting to me how different languages have different forms of words/phrases depending on who is saying it, and who they are saying it to. When you say "honorific", does that mean you are speaking to someone out of respect/older/of higher status? I'm thinking this might be equivalent to the Spanish "usted". I like how some languages include this differentiation as part of their language structure and overall culture. It's a little sad that English is not one of those.
Yes, the Aap forms are used when speaking to someone older, respect or of higher status. There are three of these in Hindi, Aap, Tum and Tu. Tum is used with close friends and people of equal status. Tu is used for people below you, or is very very intimate. To be on the safe side you shouldn't use tu because it can be derogatory. I would use Aap with everyone until I know it's okay to use Tum.
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You've asked for Indo-European links in your topic (although your post talks about Hindi), so I will take the liberty to choose from any Indian language.
Because Hindi is part of the Indo-European language family like Hindi. Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada are all Dravidian languages. Linguistically Hindi and English are related but not related to the Dravidian languages. That is why he asked for Hindi specifically. These aren't modern loanwords but words that have the same route in the Indo-European family.
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I watch the American version of it, but I will definitely check out the Japanese version.
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This list of words is great! Thanks guys :grin: Tagalog is a very pretty language!
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Hello Cookiesandcream, Sanskrit and Hindi are completely different languages. Sanskrit is the classical language that Hindi is based off of, kind of like of how French is based of off Latin. Hindi is more spoken than Sanskrit, and Sanskrit is really used more of a religious language than a spoken one. Hindi is much easier to learn than Sanskrit. Sanskrit has three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), it also has seven cases. Hindi only has two genders and three cases. If you wanted to learn one, unless you are learning for the sake of religion or want to read Sanskrit literature, than learn Hindi. Hindi is way more spoken (Sanskrit is considered dead although it has been revived in some villages), and Hindi is much more accessible and once you learnt Hindi it will make learning Sanskrit easier.
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I love the script! It's so beautiful. I'd be more than happy to learn the scripts, could you please provide the links for it?
Sure cookiesandcream! I'm glad you have an interest in it.
It's not very hard, and it is fun to learn. If you have any questions feel free to ask me, and I'll help you the best I can. This site is probably the best:
http://www.avashy.com/hindiscripttutor.htm
It teaches the alphabet with audio and has the stoke order.
http://learn-hindi-online.com/hindi-alphabet/
This site is good too but it just has the letter with sound.
There are some great videos on youtube for the script as well, maybe I will make a thread for it? Also if you can afford it, I'd recommend getting this book:
It's very simple and the lessons are clear. But the first site I gave is good too
I hope this helped and you enjoy learning Hindi.
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Unfortunately I haven't experienced this yet. But I think it'd be a great way to learn a language!