Saturday, September 5, 2009

trying to learn

I'm learning how to read and write Hindi. I can read, but it's pretty slow. I'm still sounding out words and probably sound like a 1st grader trying to read out loud so I spare myself the embarrassment and generally try not to do this in public. When I'm writing out assignments, even though it takes 10 times longer, I've been pushing myself to do so in Hindi. A page from my notebook:

1 comment:

  1. Good luck. I find that languages themselves are ten times harder to learn now that I'm no longer 11 years old. Something changes about our capacity to process language as we get older. It's kind of sad.

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