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September 26, 2010 | Hindi

Fifth Avenue

I run a race and mull over my Hindi strategy.

Today I ran the Fifth Avenue Mile. This is an amazing New York event, starting near the Metropolitan Museum of Art and heading south straight down Fifth Avenue. It draws quite an international crowd, of competitors as well as spectators.…

September 30, 2010 | Hindi

Namaste, Hindi

I work on my Hindi script while bemoaning my fragile conversational skills.

My final days of Hindi were relatively uneventful. I continued with Rosetta Stone and my favorite orange Teach Yourself Hindi book by Mohini Rao—and I returned to Pimsleur. Even though there were only 30 Pimsleur lessons available for Hindi, I…