Download or read book Himglish and Femalese written by Jean Hannah Edelstein and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we tumble headlong into the second decade of the third millennium, we are in an era of unprecedented freedom to be whatever we want to be, in defiance of fusty old gender stereotypes. But while the women revel in ruling the boardroom, the men make magic in the kitchen, and everyone does rather unusual things in the bedroom, all of this freedom does have its downside: without understanding the fundamental differences between the genders, we're in for an era of dire confusion when it comes to living with the other half of humanity. But don't furrow your brow. Jean Hannah Edelstein is here to lead you through the perplexing questions of what it means to be a man or a woman in the twenty-first century. With a spectacular talent for unpicking social trends, Edelstein draws equally on experiential and anecdotal evidence, as well as the latest scientific studies, delivering a witty, edgy and definitive manual to understanding your partner/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend. Welcome a fresh new expert on men and women and the contradictory languages they speak.
Download or read book Unhinging Hinglish written by Nanette Hale and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learn Hindi A Hinglish Handbook for Everyday Conversation written by Kriti Sinha and published by Book Bazooka Publication. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindi is one of the official languages of India and a guide to using Hindi in everyday conversations is a must when it comes to experiencing the rich culture of India. This book will help the learners to indulge in basic conversations with the locals by using simple yet efficient Hindi. The pattern in which this book is written aids in easy understanding of words, its pronunciation and association with other languages. Prioritizing situational conversations along with the usage of slangs, this book provides th learners with better acknowledgment of native India. The initial chapters revolve around the overall view of Hindi alphabets with their pronunciation and the fundamental phrases used in introduction and expression. The majority chunk of the book consists of situational conversations like, when travelling in a Taxi/Cab or buying groceries from a supermarket. This is followed by a small section comprising of the usage of 'Ji' to show respect; common slangs often incorporated in everyday speech and a glossary. Lastly, the tips for pronunciation is given in the book with a hope of being helpful in strengthening the learners’ efficiency in spoken Hindi.
Download or read book Vachan Hinglish Version written by Swati Sandeep and published by Runi Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Hinglish Version of Book2- Oberoi Series. More than 40% book is written in Hinglish (Hindi dialogues in English.) The second novel of the Oberoi Brothers Saga finds the Oberoi siblings standing together to support a troubled teenager—a boy who carries their father's name, to honor a Vachan (promise) made on their father's deathbed. Calm, composed, and introverted, Anirudh Oberoi is a modest man who keeps his heart in a cage. Despite his fame in the art world, he chooses to live a reclusive life. When his brother's promise to their dying father brings a troubled teenager home, Anirudh finds himself at a crossroads. Aditya’s presence stirred emotions within Anirudh—memories of his mother’s pain and tears resurfaced. Yet, he couldn’t turn away. The boy’s vulnerability tugged at his heartstrings, and compassion bloomed. But acceptance? That was a different battle—one fought against the ghosts of the past. Gorgeous, reserved, and proper to a fault, Dr. Sanjana Mehra's life revolves around her patients. She helped countless young adults, yet none tugged at her heartstrings like Aditya Oberoi. Her mission to aid the boy brings her into contact with a man she finds both attractive and infuriating. When a custody battle turns ugly, Sanjana and Anirudh must unite to support Aditya. As they navigate the legal system and confront their inner demons, they discover that love can bloom in the most unexpected places….
Download or read book The Upside Down Tree written by Richard D. Connerney and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "India's future will be determined not only by economic development, but also by a dynamic traditional culture that continues to develop along its own lines -- sometimes in concert, and sometimes in conflict with material enrichment. India develops not, as one writer has suggested, "in spite of the gods." Rather, the seed for the creation and the fuel for the sustenance of IndiaÂ's economic boom lay in its traditions, and, I will argue, the animating spirit of its future lies there as well. I have neither the expertise nor the access to operate as a political correspondent, nor the desire to posture as a political pundit. During eighteen years of research, however, I have seen what I perceived as a pervasive misrepresentation of recent developments in Indian politics. More specifically, a number of recent books consistently paint the Hindu right wing in India as essentially fascist or theocratic. My observations show that these claims are untenable and misrepresent a positive development in the history of Indian democracy. To think clearly about the changes in today's India we require a new model: the bi-directional banyan tree, a symbol borrowed, ironically, from ancient Sanskrit verses. Pindar claimed, "Custom is King of all," and this serves as a succinct expression of the central thesis of this book."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book The Queen s Hinglish written by B. K. Mahal and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2006 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a light-hearted look at 'Hinglish', a variety of English combined with elements of Southern Asian languages. This book features the best-loved and familiar terms, such as pukka and chuddies. It includes intriguing facts and stories and is illustrated throughout.
Download or read book Feminism and Female Writers written by Bhasker A. Shukla and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism, with its thrust on gender and sexuality, has played a vital role in studying the constructions of masculine and femine identities and the constructions of hetegrogeneous sexuality,homosexuality, bisexuality and the erotic sensibility. The study is founded on the various perspectives from biology, sociology, linguistics and psychoanalysis. This anthology covers a detailed study on feminism and its various aspects. The volume examines feminist female writes like Kamala Markandaya, Toni Morrison, Shobha de', Shashi Deshpande, Alice Walker and the Post-colonial Indian female giants-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Arundhati Roy and Bharati Mukherjee.
Download or read book Eastwards Westwards written by Clara Sarmento and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastwards / Westwards: Which Direction for Gender Studies in the XXIst Century? is a collection of essays which focus on themes and methods that characterize the current research on gender in Asian countries in general, under a comparative approach that tries to cut across the boundaries of time and space. In this collection, ideas derived from Gender Studies as they are practised all over the world have been subjected to scrutiny for their utility in helping to describe and understand regional phenomena. But the concepts of â ~localâ (TM) and â ~globalâ (TM)â "with their discoursive productionsâ "have not functioned here as a binary opposition: localism and globalism are mutually constitutive and the authors have interrogated those spaces of interaction between the â ~selfâ (TM) and the â ~otherâ (TM), bearing in mind their own embeddedness in social and cultural structures and their own historical memory. Eastwards / Westwards: Which Direction for Gender Studies in the XXIst Century? provides a critical transnational perspective on some of the complex effects of the dynamics of cultural globalization, by exploring the relation between gender and education, politics, economics, anthropology, linguistics, historiography, sociology, literature, and popular culture, as agents of the (re)invention of old and new, male and female identities, their conversion into concepts and their circulation through time and space.
Download or read book Chutnefying English written by Rita Kothari and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles."Something has happened to English; and something has happened to Hindi. These two languages, widely spoken across India, need to be understood anew through their 'hybridization' into Hinglish -- a mixture of Hindi and English that has begun to make itself heard everywhere -- from daily conversation to news, films, advertisements and blogs. How did this popular form of urban communication evolve? Is this language the new and trendy idiom of a youthful population no longer competent in either English or Hindi? Or is it an Indianized version of a once-colonial language, claiming its legitimate place alongside India's many bhashas? Chutnefying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish, the first book on the subject, takes a serious look at this widespread phenomenon of our times which has pervaded every aspect of our daily lives. It addresses the questions that many speakers of both languages ask time and again: should Hinglish be spurned as the bastard offspring of its two parent languages, or welcomed as the natural and legitimate result of their long-term cohabitation? Leading scholars from literature, cultural studies, translation, cinema and new media come together to offer a collection of essays that is refreshingly new in thought and content."--Page 2 of cover.
Download or read book A Cleft Stick written by John Oxenford and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Babel written by Gaston Dorren and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don’t have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it’s just so much fun to read.” —NPR English is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn’t speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s people in their mother tongues, you’d need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In Babel, he sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Whisking readers along on a delightful journey, he traces how these languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and shows how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics, elegant but complicated writing scripts, or mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like nations: each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as self-evident to those born into it as they are surprising to outsiders. Babel reveals why modern Turks can’t read books that are a mere 75 years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate “dialects” for men and women. Dorren also shares his experiences studying Vietnamese in Hanoi, debunks ten myths about Chinese characters, and discovers the region where Swahili became the lingua franca. Witty and utterly fascinating, Babel will change how you look at and listen to the world. “Word nerds of every strain will enjoy this wildly entertaining linguistic study.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Download or read book You Can Be the Happiest Woman in the World written by Aid al-Qarni and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to be happy? We are all looking for an escape from worry, stress and depression, and for ways to find happiness. This book presents the route to happiness in a nutshell, drawing on Islamic teachings and the voices of experts both western and eastern. So sit back, relax and read it from cover to cover, or dip into it a page or two at a time in between other activities in a busy life as a wife, mother, student or worker.
Download or read book Who Owns English written by Vineeta Chand and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Himglish and Femalese written by Jean Hannah Edelstein and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we tumble headlong into the second decade of the third millennium, we are in an era of unprecedented freedom to be whatever we want to be, in defiance of fusty old gender stereotypes. But while the women revel in ruling the boardroom, the men make magic in the kitchen, and everyone does rather unusual things in the bedroom, all of this freedom does have its downside: without understanding the fundamental differences between the genders, we're in for an era of dire confusion when it comes to living with the other half of humanity. But don't furrow your brow. Jean Hannah Edelstein is here to lead you through the perplexing questions of what it means to be a man or a woman in the twenty-first century. With a spectacular talent for unpicking social trends, Edelstein draws equally on experiential and anecdotal evidence, as well as the latest scientific studies, delivering a witty, edgy and definitive manual to understanding your partner/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend. Welcome a fresh new expert on men and women and the contradictory languages they speak.
Download or read book From Highland Hills to an Emperor s Tomb written by Charles H. Collins and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lingo written by Gaston Dorren and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal). Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent’s ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today’s remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word “you.” “In this bubbly linguistic endeavor, journalist and polyglot Dorren thoughtfully walks readers through the weird evolution of languages” (Publishers Weekly), and not just the usual suspects—French, German, Yiddish, irish, and Spanish, Here, too are the esoteric—Manx, Ossetian, Esperanto, Gagauz, and Sami, and that global headache called English. In its sixty bite-sized chapters, Dorret offers quirky and hilarious tidbits of illuminating facts, and also dispels long-held lingual misconceptions (no, Eskimos do not have 100 words for snow). Guaranteed to change the way you think about language, Lingo is a “lively and insightful . . . unique, page-turning book” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
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