As the trip gets closer, I am more and more aware of my need to learn at least a few more phrases in Hindi. I just don't seem to get past remembering much more than the 3 phrases that I learned the first day of Hindi class. Luckily, I do recognize more words when I hear them, but I am having great difficulty still putting together phrases or remembering more than a handful of common phrases. After just a basic google search, I found this list of helpful phrases,
http://www.linguanaut.com/english_hindi.htm and decided to make myself some powerpoint flashcards with phrase and picture. So far I have tried learning Hindi by a class that was taught using the immersion method http://www.thegln.org/, watching Hindi movies, and of course practicing with Abhijeet. I do feel like I have more comfort and familiarity with the the language than I have in Chinese (I studied for one year), but I still am stuck only speaking the same few phrases. As a language teacher, this is frustrating and humbling.
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