Indian Fashion : Shawl

You do not need to be dressed up in a sari or in some other Indian dress to wear a shawl. It looks just as great on modern jeans or leggings and just as elegant on any simple tight t-shirt. You can make it more SPICY by adding a bindi and big or sparkly earrings.

Sari

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Shawl on leggings

Shawl on simple black tight t-shirt

Shawl styles

Shawl on a dress

Shawl on blue jeans

Indian kitchen?

So probably you have noticed Indians do not prepare food in the oven much or bake cakes in the oven. How come? Well, it is simple, their kitchens look a bit different. Here are some pictures of typical Indian kitchens, utensils and thing you can find in their kitchens.

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Indian woman preparing a meal

Indian woman cooking outside

Indian chef

Tandoor

Water purifier

Chakla and belan

Okhli

Pressure cooker

Thali plate

Thali plate

Indian Food

Here are some of the most famous dishes of India. From breads to cakes - delicious, mouthwatering and ... SPICY :)

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ROTI

Roti - Chapati

PURI

Puri

PAV BHAJI

Pav Bhaji

SAMOSE
Here is the full Samose recipe - Indian Cuisine: SAMOSE

Samose

BUTTER CHICKEN

Butter Chicken

EGG CURRY

Egg Curry

KULFI

Kulfi

GULAB JAMUN

Gulab Jamun

Building up your Hindi vocabulary!

Here are some tips on how to improve your Hindi vocabulary!

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Master Hindi Language Quickly

1. Bit by bit

- it is always better to revise often and slowly adding new ones than learn huge amount of words every now and then.

2. Use what you  have learned right away!

- whichever word or phrase you have just learnt - use it! Write a short essay, talk to your friends... just mention it in any way.

3. Visual dictionaries

- if you are a person who likes to learn by seeing the image the certain term represents, this is an awesome solution to you. These kind of dictionaries often put words in categories so you learn the context as well.

4. Memo cards vs notebooks

- instead of having a huge mess in the notebook, keep different cards within it. For example, title one card as "Sabji" (vegetable) and whenever you learn a new vegetable, write it down on that card. This is a great way to see how your vocabulary is improving and also a great way to keep track of the amount of the words you know of each category.

5. Indian friends!

- official languages of India are Hindi, English and any local language that has the status of  official language. Most of the Indians can speak in Hindi, even though it might not be their mother tongue. If you have Indian friends, practise with them! :)

6. Bollywood films
- watch Bollywood films. Try to hear out some words, check their meanings and write them down. What you hear in the film is most likely to be conversational Hindi and can be of great use!

Good Luck!

In this article you can learn more about the script in which Hindi is written DEVANAGARI while in the article Meet Hindi Language you can learn more about Hindi language in general if you are not familiar with it.

Meet Hindi Language

Hindi is an Indoeuropean language that is an official language of Republic of India. Today more than 200 MILLION people can speak Hindi. It is also the language of Bollywood films.

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It is commonly misunderstood that Hindi is a very difficult language to learn. Actually, if you are a native speaker of any of the Indoeuropean language, it should be easier than learning Chinese, Turkish or any other non-Indoeuropean language - even though it might sound very "exotic" to you. 

It has developed from Sanskrit - an ancient language such as Greek and Latin but, however, still has native speakers! So, you see - what is Latin to Spanish, exactly the same is Sanskrit to Hindi - a parent :) Native Hindi speakers will not have much problems with understanding Sanskrit as much as native speakers of Slavic languages will not have problems with understanding Old Slavonic and native speakers of Roman languages - Latin. If you are a native speaker of, for example, any of the Slavic languages and you had to learn Latin at school - you can understand Roman languages easier. The point is, Indoeuropean languages follow almost the same rules and their constructions will be somewhat very similar. There is no need to be scared of Hindi just because you do not have an opportunity to hear it on the TV very often - being an Indoeuropean language, it is already closer to your own mother tongue than other "exotic" languages.

Hindi is written in Devanagari script. A very old script whose tracks we can follow all the way to Aramaic script. Today it is officially used for writing Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit language. In this article you can learn more about this Indian Script : DEVANAGARI. It is really fun to learn! There are many tutorials on how to write and read Devanagari. Also there are many tutorials about Hindi understanding the Hindi grammar. There are not many, however, tutorials on building Hindi vocabulary so from time to time we will try to work on that topic over here as well :)

Let us know in the comments if you have already tried to learn Hindi and how did you like it! You can also LIKE Spicy Bhaarat on Facebook and Google+.

Here are some tips on how to build up your Hindi vocabulary - Building up your Hindi vocabulary!

Hindi Language