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Aug 2023
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Learn Hindi: Criticizing a Bad Movie

Language Learning Accelerator
About this episode

This episode exposes you to phrases, repeated in English and Hindi, to improve your Hindi vocabulary and help you to express yourself in Hindi.

These episodes are meant to accompany and accelerate your existing Hindi language studies, whether you're using an app like DuoLingo, or you're enrolled in a more formal Hindi class. The more you expose your brain to Hindi audio, the faster you'll learn.

All episodes have subtitles available (if your podcast app supports subtitles).

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View the full list of English and Hindi phrases in this episode.

Phrases in this episode:

  • When symbolism drowns the plot.
  • Archetypes gone rogue.
  • Dialogues from a philosophy undergrad’s diary.
  • It’s a narrative Möbius strip; endlessly confusing.
  • What dimension did this plot come from?
  • Flashbacks? I can barely follow the present!
  • A kaleidoscope of tropes and clichés.
  • So many bullets, so little logic.
  • Ah, explosions as character development!
  • Why are they whispering? They just blew up a building!
  • Where's this guy finding all these helicopters?
  • They punched logic right in the face!
  • So we're ignoring physics now?
  • So we're friends with aliens now?
  • So we're just ending it there?

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