Katherine Russell Rich: Dreaming in Hindi
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- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Granta Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781846272622
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'I took up with Hindi at a time when it seemed my life had buckled out from under me — I no longer had the language to describe my own life. So I decided I'd borrow someone else's. ' Having survived a serious illness and now at an impasse in her career, Rich spontaneously accepts a freelance assignment to go to India, where she finds herself utterly overwhelmed by the place and the language. Before she knows it she is on her way to Udaipur, a city in Rajasthan, to live with a local family and join a special language school offering 'total immersion'. What follows is a year of linguistic adventure and cultural surprises in which Rich gradually sheds her foreignness, to discover a new country and a new way of communicating. Fascinated by the process, she seeks out linguistic experts around world to understand what goes in the brain as we pick up a new vocabulary. Both a clever, lucid and funny memoir, and a unique investigation into the science of language acquisition, Dreaming in Hindi offers an engrossing account of what learning a new language can teach us about distant worlds and, ultimately, ourselves.