Hindi Soup

A slow cooking language journey - add a handful of grammar, three cups of vocabulary, a pinch of sarcasm, and salt to taste. Let simmer on low heat until aromatic. बॉन एपेतीत! My side blog is: @spoonshadowsymphony

[blogbyameera]

In English they say :

How lucky are those people who see you everyday

But in Urdu we say :

Jinko asaani se deedar muyasar hai tera , woh kahan baagh mei phoolon ki taraf dekhte hain

[hindisoup]

[aryannesque]

𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙝 𝙗𝙝𝙞 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡 𝙧𝙖𝙝𝙞, 𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙚𝙞𝙣

𝙏𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙞 𝙥𝙖𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙚 𝙜𝙪𝙯𝙖𝙧 𝙜𝙖𝙮𝙚, 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙠𝙝𝙮𝙖𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙚𝙞𝙣

- wajid sheikh

[hindisoup]

[languagelvlup]

Was just talking to my friend the other day, the one who started studying Japanese for her trip to japan in November

Despite never studying before, she found she already knew a LOT from anime. she knew how to say “happy birthday” and “it’s hot” and “it’s cold” and “that’s amazing” and “ahh, I see”

On the other hand, her partner…didn’t. Even though he also watched a lot of anime, he didn’t remember as many of the words or phrases

I asked why she thought that might be. She said she wasn’t sure, since she didn’t actively study.

She said “I mean, I like to repeat what the characters say sometimes” and I said “oh, we call that shadowing.” She said “I like to look up the song lyrics and then check what the words mean in English, just for fun.” I said “nice. sounds like vocabulary study.” She said yeah and then me and my friend used to joke around by quoting the shows, like バカ！and ごめん and かわいい and…like, 元気ですか？and, uh, あついですね！and i was like “so…conversation practice”

Don’t get me wrong, maybe some people really do just watch a few TV shows on repeat and the language somehow sticks. But a lot of people who “don’t study” just don’t realize they’re studying, or they naturally did some language acquisition things that you had to actively learn how to do

[hindisoup]

[aryannesque]

𝙋𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙝𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙖𝙩 𝙣𝙖𝙝𝙞

𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙣 𝙠𝙞 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙝 𝙧𝙖𝙠𝙝𝙣𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙝𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙞

[hindisoup]

[chaandkideewani]

some urdu insults I learned today <3

dard-e-sar, namoona-e-khurafat, zehni khalal, badshah-e-fasaad, aazmaish-e-rooh, qayamat-e-khaas"

[bheege-naina]

Main Hoon Na | SRK & Sushmita

[moonsandpetals-deactivated20251]

"mere dekhne ka hunar hi jab maand ho jaae, tab chaahe vo falak ka chaand ho jae, mujhe kya..."

when my ability to see fades away, then even if they become the moon in the sky, why would i care...

~ abhidubey | moonsandpetals

[pyaariposting]

Veer goes to pakistan at a single call of zara’s friend. He goes straight in front of her family where all of them were at a Dargah and he stood infront of them while “aaya tere dar pr deewana” plays in the background.

“Jo bandishein thi zamaane ki Todd aaya hoon

Maiñ tere waaste Duniya ko chhod aaya hoon”

this is MAN in love.

[nirmiti]

tum sabko khone se darte ho, par tumhe khone se kon darta hai?

[southasiansource]

YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI (2013) dir. Ayan Mukerji

[lafilledanslaville]

learning a language is fun until you realize you have no idea how your native language really works

[herpsandbirds]

Indian Black Earth Snake (Melanophidium wynaudense), family Uropletidae, endemic to the Western Ghats of Southern India

photos: Gowdagirishc & Vedansh Pandey

[hindisoup]

Since I’m working at the university now, I quite often hear some random snippets of Hindi or Urdu from students that pass me by on the corridors. Not trying to eavesdrop but just a simple “अच्छा अच्छा” can make me smile.