Dreaming in Hindi

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Katherine Russell Rich was an unlikely candidate for a study-abroad program in India, but when she accepted a writing assignment there, she found herself drawn to the Hindi language and set out to master it. Her memoir of her experience moving to Udaipur, an ancient city in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, and studying Hindi, Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language, describes the transformative power of learning a new language.

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