Hindi Language Books
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Night Song List Price: $16.98 Sale Price: $17.57  |
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Canadian experimental guitarist Brook and the late, "shining star of Qawwal" come together for a second time to bring the music of Pakistan into a creative new realm. If you are a traditionalist who wants nothing but Pakistani music, stay away... |
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American Indian Christmas List Price: $18.98 Sale Price: $18.34 |
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Monsoon Wedding List Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $4.50 |
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Monsoon Wedding is a return to form for Mira Nair, director of 1988's Salaam Bombay! Nair's gift for observation of the everyday and her love for her characters make for a delightful film, which spins a web of family relationships that knit and break during a wedding at a perfect pace... |
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Secrets of Body Language List Price: $24.95 Sale Price: $12.49 |
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Did you know that 93% of human communication occurs through body language? This fascinating documentary examines how our gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, and body movements speak volumes about our hidden feelings, hopes and desires... |
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (English dubbed) Sale Price: $2.99 |
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Ectaco EHi900 Grand Hindi & English Bidirectional Talking Electronic Translator Dictionary & PhraseBook with OCR C-Pen Scanner & GPS Navigation System List Price: $679.95 Sale Price: $629.95 |
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Large 3.5" color LCD screen. 70,000 English explanations with the WordNet Princeton English Dictionary. Unique User's Dictionary lets you create personalized word lists. Advanced Speech Recognition. True Voice human pronunciation for words and phrases... |
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ECTACO iTRAVL NTL-2Hi Hindi - English - Hindi speech-to-speech phrase translator talking dictionary and Ultimate Travel Tool plus the downloadable LingvoSoft Hindi Translation Software Platinum pack ($200 value) as a Free gift! List Price: $479.95 Sale Price: $379.95 |
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English Hindi electronic speech-to-speech translator talking dictionary and Ultimate Travel Tool ECTACO iTRAVL NTL-2Hi * 308 035 words English Hindi bidirectional talking dictionary English voice only * Travel Voice PhraseBook translates and speaks 14 000 phrases using native-speaker voice narration in English and Hindi * The worlds most sophisticated Speech Recognition that understands exactly what you say and provides instant translation of words and phrases * iHELP pronounces emergency or frequently used phrases instantly * Indispensable travel resources that include Fodor Travel Guide CIA World Factbook and Travel AudioBooks * 70 000 WordNet English explanatory dictionary * Hands free voice navigation and hi-res touch screen for easy access to information * Extended functionality and responsiveness powered by Windows CE * Mp3 player games calculator metric converter and word time clock utilities Detailed maps with destination advice and addresses will help you find your way around in no time... |
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Hindi Learning Magnetic Varnamala Set List Price: $25.00 Sale Price: $25.00 |
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Beautiful, Soft and colorful magnetic Hindi alphabets in a bag. |
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The Modern Kama Sutra: The Ultimate Guide to the Secrets of Erotic Pleasure List Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $11.33 |
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The 2,000-year-old Kama Sutra is widely regarded as the most famous work on erotic pleasure ever created. This original new interpretation of the Hindu sex classic features 40 easy-to-follow explicit positions, each beautifully illustrated by stunning color photographs, step-by-step instructions, difficulty ratings, and relevant quotes from the original text... |
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Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth List Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $3.62 |
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Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself... |
Learn the History of Linguistics and Its Development Into Modern Languages
Modern linguistics is a fairly young form of discipline as compared to history or philosophy. Linguistics' modern field dates only as far back as the 19th century. It is regarded, though, that Ancient India and Greece both played remarkable roles on the formation of grammatical traditions. The literary and rhetoric analysis of the workings of human languages also dates back to both these ancient civilizations. In 1786, a major discovery has been made as it has been observed that languages have evolved separately but their sounds still correspond to their modern meanings.
A concrete example of similarities in sound is that of the English word father. The Latin form of this word is pater while the Sanskrit format is pitar. Another example is the word- for in English is spoken and written as per in Latin and pari in Sanskrit. Based on these examples, it can be said that languages remain similar in some aspects.
Scholars who have made this amazing discovery have also pointed out that there are thousands of words with the same similarities. This only proves that languages, no matter how numerous they are, have a single ancestor.
Nineteenth century linguistics focused on studying the nature of this mother language which was believed to be spoken 6,000 years ago. Modern linguistics also points out the role of Proto-Indo-European language which has evolved into Modern English, Hindi, Russian and other contemporary languages. Historical linguistics remains an active field of study nowadays and linguists have managed to group languages into families and a parent language.
Language Structure Studied
The beginning of the 20th century signaled the shift of attention from mere language changes to structural changes as well. At this century, the study has become more systematic and governed by principles and rules. Grammar has become the focus of linguists' studies, also the sound structures and internal makeup of sentences and words.
By 1920s, Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure has come up with sophisticated methods of analyzing grammar-and so structural linguistics was finally born. The 1920s also proved to be the period of intensified language studies. With these studies, the theory that there was only a single language that parented all other languages has been intensified.
Noam Chomsky, a linguist in 1950s, has initiated the theory that the human brain has been programmed to certain grammatical properties thus there are limitations when it comes to the development of human languages. Numerous linguistic researches have been done to either prove or disprove this theory. There are various books and journals that focus on this controversial claim by Chomsky.
The Social Aspect of Languages
In the past half century, attention has been focused to the social and mental sides of a language. The sociolinguistics sub-field has been conceptualized mainly due to the social movements after the Second World War. Third World countries have been widely observed after the said war as these nations have staged liberations movements.
With these movements, it was questioned whether the language that these people then used would continue to be their major language; or shall it be a language that has evolved. This is also true with present-day Chicano Spanish and African-American slang.
Numerous scholars have studied the languages of such nations and are still on the process of pointing out the relevance of aspects such as gender and geography to the development of these countries' modern tongues. This only proves that linguistics would be a continuous study of language; and also of people and events that may have an effect on its evolution.
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