Sarah is from the USA and has lived in north India since 2010. She owns a language education business that runs courses for people seeking to learn English or Hindi. Sarah loves seeing people connect to each other through language learning. She also loves fantasy novels and rainy afternoons. We talked about her Hindi learning process, her reasons for staying in India, and some tips for Hindi learning. Check out Sarah's work at hindigateway.com and osls.info
📝Episode Outline
(00:00) Intro & First Encounter of Delhi Airport/Flashmob & Step of Faith
(09:38) Lively India/Immersion Hindi Learning Program/Learn to Speak like Your Neighbors/
(17:53) Is Sanskrit still Alive?/Alphabetical Phonetics/Subject-Object-Verb Format/ 2 Genders for Nouns/Verb Conjugations/Post-noun Prepositions/Pronunciations/Accents
(28:05) Learning Strategies: Spend Time w/ People, Learn Words in Contexts/Languages & Cultures
(39:21) Vegetable Superstar/Linguistics & Intelligence/Swallow our Pride/Speaking Hindi or English?/Missing Cat & Dog/
(51:12) Challenges/Low Energy/Being an Introvert/Bloopers at the End!
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