A Contextual Translation of Chamkila’s Naram Kalja
Looking for a well researched translation of the song Naram Kalja from the 2024 Imtiaz Ali film Amar Singh Chamkila? Find it here!
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Connecting Nouns and Verbs: Understanding Postpositions or Kaarak in Hindi
How do nouns and verbs connect in Hindi? Using the 8 types of postpositions, called kaarak, vibhakti, or parsarg. This post explains it all!
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Different Ways of Using Question Words in Mandarin Chinese
Wondering how to correctly use interrogative pronouns to construct complex sentences in Chinese? Here is an explainer, backreferenced to the HSK books!
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Video Calls and Zoom Meetings in Mandarin Chinese
Doing a lot of video calls and zoom meetings with your Chinese colleagues or friends? Here are some nifty and useful phrases to smoothen the conversation!
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Using Common Chinese Place Suffixes to Build Place Names
Mandarin Chinese is a language replete with markers, which can be combined with other words to form a variety of meaningful compound words. Here are some of the markers, along with their base meaning, and some compound words that they are used in.
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Weather Vocabulary in Mandarin Chinese
Learn weather related vocabulary in Mandarin Chinese, and the many different ways that weather phenomena can be expressed.
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