Learning Hindi from Bollywood Films
Carl Bromley from Nation Books tells me that these podcasts have been giving him “hours of pleasure.” Here’s a way to learn a language–or is it a culture?–from seventies-era Hindi films.
The podcasts are offered by Arun Krishnan who has a novel coming out soon.
A few years ago I bought the CD above. Carl, I recommend it highly.
P.S. Time Out Mumbai’s Naresh Fernandes sends us another link to Bombay grooves.
P.P.S. And still more.
Most of my desi friends in college were 1.5 or 2nd gen Gujrati, Punjabi, some combination of Southie, Fijian or Pakistani. I suppose Hindi comes pretty naturally to Pakistanis, but the rest of the kids never spoke anything so close to Hindi at home. When I asked how they still knew passable Hindi, they all said the same thing: Bollywood.
Comment by Shruti — December 16, 2007 @ 7:39 pm