Consonant Aspirations

I saw this comic on xkcd last week ( link ): (Or a cabbage, for that matter. The goat makes sense. Goats are fine.) Too true. Anyway,...

The past two week I've been receiving messages from an Assamese guy who used to work at the guest house I was staying in in Guwahati. (...

One of the first things I learn to say in a foreign language is how to say, "I'm from..." or "I come from...", mainl...

Most language learning textbooks these days include a dialogue (or two) in each chapter, along with a vocabulary list, followed by some disc...

I remember a small incident from the year I spent on exchange in France. I was in Lourdes for a few days and I recall I was looking for a ce...

This is something that has been bugging me a little bit since I was in Nepal back in October last year. It concerns the orthographic represe...

To commemorate my 100th post on this blog (yes, it's been a hundred) and the fact that I'm learning some Assamese here in Guwahati, ...