Today was my Nepali lesson #28 with Eni-Guru. When we started a few weeks ago, I could not speak. She spoke to me in Nepali, explaining everything in Hindi whenever I signalled lack of understanding.
During our first five lessons, I was just listening to her speaking Nepali, tuning my brain into the frequency of the language. Then, I started to put some words together.
Now, we communicate entirely in Nepali, even though I still need much time to put words and grammar bits together to make my sentences. It's slow, but basically it seems to work.
And this was exactly the purpose of this "Nepali intensive month", namely to break the barrier between the gaze at written words and real life spoken communication.
धेरै धेरै धन्यवाद गुरुजी !!
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