 Mac and Cheese in Hindi, doodh!
About a year ago I spent a month travelling through India with my wife and 3-1/2 year-old son. Very quickly it was established that my son, Ivan, had an intense distaste for Indian food. While we were busy devouring things like bhel puri, undhiyu, and mustard-y Bengali fish dishes, we also had to make sure there were kid staples like grilled cheese sandwiches or chicken fingers close at hand. Not always easy.
The last leg of our trip was in Mumbai where we stayed with my wife's extended family. By that time Ivan was so desperate for pasta that I went out scouring neighborhood stores for a package of macaroni and cheese.
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Go Online!
One of the greatest ways to explore a new language, at least without actually going to a place where people speak that language, is to explore the internet. Even when you're sitting at your desk, you're never more than a few clicks away from online newspapers, magazines, reference materials, travel and cultural sites, radio stations, songs, and much more. In fact, our Living Language Online courses are designed with "discovery activities" that encourage students to put their new language - even just a little bit of it - to practical use in the real (virtual!) world.
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Ideas sprout like mushrooms after the rain; one of these good ideas, that has finally generated quite a few mushrooms in the last several years, is the awareness that at least 50% (some say 90%) of the world's 7,000 or so languages are about to die in the course of our century and the realization that we should do something to save them.
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Also on the blog this month:
But is it still legal to parse? Brasilia bans the gerund.
To hyphenate or not to hyphenate? The death of the hyphen.
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 Pain au chocolat
It's no secret that pastry is one of France's most popular cultural ambassadors. In fact, it's hard to pass by a coffee shop, bakery or any sort of store that sells baked goods in the United States without encountering that crucial French pastry: the chocolate croissant. However, don't start practicing your pronunciation of chocolat croissant just yet. The actual phrase for a chocolate croissant in French doesn't use the word croissant at all.
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