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I started to learn Bengali, which is mostly spoken in some parts in north India. It took me a while to learn the alphabet and still I have difficulties to read and write the conjunct consonants. I...
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Tamil is a language mostly spoken in Tamil Nadu in south India. Although I have been there, I just learned one single sentence. For someone, who does not speak Tamil, one thing is very easy to...
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A DAAD scholarship for India is co-financed by the Indian government. The institution which takes care of all this, is called ICCR (Indian Council of Cultural Relations). So after passing the first...
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Each language in the world has some particular sounds which makes the distinguishable to foreign speakers. E.g. Tamil has the AaaA-ending, Bengali has lots of “Thik-Ache”, “Bhaaalo”, and “ache” and...
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In foreign languages names given to towns, states, persons, etc differ a lot from the names someone is used to. For Westerners it is quite easy to remember “Washington”, “Berlin” or “Steve”, “Paul” and...
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In “The Hindu” on 18/05/2012: A truly remarkable invention: A gas stove with a collator for waist oil. No matter how much you eat, the collator critically compares your current waist oil with probably...
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