obálka: DREAMING IN HINDI

DREAMING IN HINDI (2009)

Autor: Rich Katherine Russell
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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.



Podrobnosti

  • Počet strán: 360
  • Formát: 135 × 215 mm
  • Väzba: brožovaná
  • Rok vydania: 2009
  • Jazyk: anglický
  • EAN: 9781846272615