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Kritika Sharma
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2011
Hello! I'm a video creator in Washington DC with a passion for language, culture, dance and digital storytelling. Hope you stick around a while and of course, spread love :)
A Digital Diary from Southeast Asia (Story 3)
Hello! I recently went to Southeast Asia with my family and have been thinking about the memories that frame experiences. The memories that frame this trip for me are these little stories of learning about locals' lives and I wanted to share them along with the beautiful footage I was able to capture on this trip.
Kritika Sharma holds a B.A. in International Studies and Linguistics from the University of Washington and is currently pursuing avenues in video journalism, human rights work, public policy and research.
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Kritika Sharma holds a B.A. in International Studies and Linguistics from the University of Washington and is currently pursuing avenues in video journalism, human rights work, public policy and research.
★ Want to support my work? It would mean the world :) www.buymeacoffee.com/kritikasharma
★ MUSIC
All music is from Epidemic Sound.
★ FOLLOW ME!
Instagram: @_kritzsharma_
Subscribers: 676
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Do the 5 Love Languages Apply Across Cultures? | A Global Analysis of Giving & Receiving Love ❤️
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The Five Love Languages, a concept first coined by Gary Chapman in his book, are physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, acts of service, and receiving gifts. But are these love languages applicable across cultures and universally experienced? In today’s video, we are asking some of my friends how they express love in their cultures, digger deeper into the nuance of love languages, ...
Lost in Translation | The Cultural Nuances of Indian American Identity w/ @Kurien Thomas
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In this video, I sit down with my friend Kurien Thomas, a fellow South Asian content creator, as we discuss the nuances of our behavior that get lost in translation between Indian and American cultures. FIND KURIEN! www.serotunein.com/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serotunein/id1470187048 www.tiktok.com/@serotunein serotunein ★ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Introduction 00:48 - Money 02:35 ...
Croatia Was the Start of Something New... (Story 2)
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A digital diary of sorts on my trip to Florence, Italy and Croatia. ★ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Introduction 1:15 - Instincts or Anxiety? 2:34 - Abandon Expectations 3:30 - Trust Your Gut 4:41 - Listen to Your Body 5:37 - Your Mind is Your Greatest Companion 6:28 - Where I'm at Now... Kritika Sharma holds a B.A. in International Studies and Linguistics from the University of Washington and is currently...
Why You Couldn't Learn a Second Language in School | Problems w/ US Language Education
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This video is a bit of a part two two my last video which discussed the nitty gritty of perfecting your accent in French. In this video, we break down the the reasons why so many learners are unsuccessful at learning languages in American schools. Click the link below to watch the first part so you can see how language could potentially be taught to be more engaging, informative, and thorough. ...
THE SECRETS TO PERFECTING YOUR FRENCH ACCENT | Linguistic Pronunciation Tips No One Told You!
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Hi hello, in this video I share 10 secret tips to perfecting your French pronunciation that you were likely never taught in class. These tips are based in linguistics and will help you sound more like a native speaker. This isn’t about shaming anyone who does not have a perfect accent in French, but more to show you the building blocks that can actually help you try your best. ★ TIMESTAMPS 0:00...
To all those who struggle to define "home" (Story 1)
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Hi hello this is a bit of a heartfelt, digital storytelling piece on home. For all those who have never experienced homesickness, who don't connect with their hometown, or those who never really had one. I hope you'll find your own meaning of home through this video and learn to cherish it. Thank you to my friend Ryan for the drone shots! ★ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - What does home mean? 1:19 - I. Peace...
WHY ARE FRENCH SONGS SO GOOD? | The Linguistic Nuances of French Language Music
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Hi hello I'm back! I absolutely love French music and I've started noticing some patterns that I think make French songs objectively good. In this video, I go absolute language nerd and discuss the linguistic nuances in French language music. The artists I listen to primarily are Stromae, Angèle, Therapie TAXI, Suzane, and L.E.J, so these nuances may more strongly cater to their music. ★ TIMEST...
THINGS I LOVE ABOUT INDIAN CULTURE | A Deeper Look into Being Indian
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Hi hello long time no see... today we're talking about some of my favorite aspects of Indian culture and also talking about why culture is SUCH an important thing to consider in our conversations, relationships, and society. ★ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - #1 Never Return... 01:24 - #2 Storytime! 04:28 - #3 Always Thinking... 07:29 - #4 You Are Always... 09:29 - Responses from Instagr...
What We Get WRONG About World Politics | Part 1
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In this video, I wanted to share four things about world politics that western narratives often miss, gloss over, or don't give enough importance to, and why these factors are so important to consider in policymaking, education, and understanding the world. ★ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 0:49 - Factor #1 2:37 - Factor #2 4:12 - Factor #3 5:32 - Factor #4 6:58 - Final Thoughts Kritika Sharma holds a ...
EXPAT VS IMMIGRANT || Distinction or Discrimination?
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In today's video, we'll be discussing the terms immigrant and expat or expatriate. In English, these two terms are distinct even though they describe a generally similar concept... so let's break that down. ★ TIMESTAMPS 00:46 - Who is an immigrant? 01:54 - Who is an expat? 02:14 - Compare & Contrast 2:37 - How are these words actually being used? 04:26 - Are these distinctions useful? 08:39 - B...
DOES EVERY LANGUAGE SAY THANK YOU? || Gratitude Across Cultures, Power Distance, and Friendships
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Hi hello welcome back! Today we're talking about the word thank you. Is thank you a concept that exists in all languages? Are the norms around when you say thank you, to whom, and for what similar across different tongues? As you probably guess... not exactly! So today we'll be diving into those nuances, as well as how differences in expressions of gratitude can affect your relationships and fr...
LET'S TALK ABOUT CULTURE PART 2 || The White Experience is NOT The Default...
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Hi hello in this video, we are talking about 5 ways our language and communication can be inherently white centered and can assume familiarity with the white experience. This video isn't meant to hate on white people but rather just bring some cultural cognizance into the way you as a white person might communicate that avoids making people from other cultures feel like the "other," featuring t...
MY JOURNEY AS A DANCER || Kritika Sharma
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Hi hello I’m a day late but I made this in honor of International Day of Dance. So many times as dancers, we believe we’ll love what we do our whole life, that we’ll unwaveringly stick to our art and that it’s a linear path of a life of dance. So little do people talk about how messy the journey can be even with something that you love. This video shares a small portion of my journey as a dance...
WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET? || Linguistics, the IPA, and its Applications
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Chitresh Das Institute | Aranya Katha - Vriksh ki Dhadkan EDF 2019
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Shes beautiful ❤
Hello I ‘m a 1.5 generation immigrant that moved to Canada in grade 3. During my school days I often felt a bit distant and had a hard time making friends since I felt really different from them . However , my connection with my culture remains strong since I speak my mother tongue at home with my parents and did singing and dancing performances at cultural events . Until grade 7 I always felt as though I was “ too Indian” and not Canadian enough like my sister . I found it hard to connect with my classmates because I never really watched the same shows or played the same games as them . I even tried to force myself to watch the movies and shows my friends liked . However around the time I reached grade 8, I made a best friend and I started to open up to her about my culture and have started to embrace my identity. Nowadays I no longer force myself to consume the western media that my friends consume but instead watch English self improvement TH-cam videos and people that inspire me . I also learned that I can be friends with anyone based on shared experiences and activities and respect each other’s differences instead of having to belong to the same culture .
Hello I ‘m a 1.5 generation immigrant that moved to Canada in grade 3. During my school days I often felt a bit distant and had a hard time making friends since I felt really different from them . However , my connection with my culture remains strong since I speak my mother tongue at home with my parents and did singing and dancing performances at cultural events . Until grade 7 I always felt as though I was “ too Indian” and not Canadian enough like my sister . I found it hard to connect with my classmates because I never really watched the same shows or played the same games as them . I even tried to force myself to watch the movies and shows my friends liked . However around the time I reached grade 8, I made a best friend and I started to open up to her about my culture and have started to embrace my identity. Nowadays I no longer force myself to consume the western media that my friends consume but instead watch English self improvement TH-cam videos and people that inspire me . I also learned that I can be friends with anyone based on shared experiences and activities and respect each other’s differences instead of having to belong to the same culture .
this is good 👍
SUPER helpful! Merci! 🙏
Great job 🎉🎉🎉
What a great topic to explore! It reminds me of getting to know a idioms of a culture gives you massive insights into their values.
Also people from Latin America and Africa and Asia also immigrated with money and degrees to North America not everyone from these continents is poor.
an expat is a glorfied tourists.
Honestly, a lot of people who consider themselves expats live in foreign countries full-time .
Hey Kritika, great video. I teach English to French speakers and this is super useful to understand what we Frenchies do unconsciously and how to modify it to sound more English. Thanks a lot!
Firstly, this is an excellent video, and I appreciate the perspectives! I think what you shown here is that the love languages ARE applicable across multiple cultures. The trickiness is in interpretation. For example, while physical touch, to me, is an extremely important love language - whether it’s a hug or having my back scratched, or my shoulders rubbed - I would be very weirded out if a stranger come up and did any of these things for me/to me, and would never offer any of those things to another person, unless I was sure that the other person was receptive to it. Regarding the question at the end of the video, personally, I would group spending time in community as quality time (especially if it’s with people you love), which IS one of the love languages. Similarly, I would group the “speaking section” in with Words of Affirmation. Glad to dialogue with anyone more some time. Again, great video!
I also touched up on this subject. Here's part 1 of that video. th-cam.com/video/bKgqCy-Gn9w/w-d-xo.html
I'm not a second generation immigrant, but I'm a 1.5 generation immigrant (which means I moved as a child) and I still relate to this :)
my neighbor always offers to oil my hair bc her kids wont let her do it to them, and it makes my hair so soft
I just started learning French and I was so shocked at how much I like French music specifically French Pop, and I don’t even understand anything! But it sounds so airy and light like a lullaby.. maybe it’s the style of singing from the artist or the just French language? 🤣But I’m so motivated to continue learning!!
What’s linguistics discrimination
Nice
Thank you so much for making this video, I have beeb practicing yoga and spirituality, even I just finished my yoga teacher training in India, I still couldn't pronounce Mantra and Chakra correctly until now, please keep on making this! You are so good at identifying the differences.
We have a new dr where I work her last name is Thakkar. How would an American pronounce this? She has tried to help me but due to her accent I just can’t get it, but really want to get outside my box of English or American only lol. Thanks
This is so helpful and interesting but I'm always nervous my attempts to pronounce things correctly will seem like mocking.
As an Indian person, I always get so excited when people try to pronounce things correctly :). But you're right, in many cases, it can feel like someone will make fun of you - I experience the same thing with French! It's an interesting line to tow and I don't have an exact answer for why people are like this regarding language.
This would be much more helpful if you a) slowed down and b) stopped ridiculing people who don't say words in your language correctly. I teach about university academic writing to approx. 60% international students, many of whom are from India, especially this year. I would not think of ridiculing them for the way they speak English. They are, at least, trying. I do ask them, because I believe pronunciation is important, especially when using their names, how to pronounce them. It's respectful. Perhaps, instead of correcting "trendy Indian words," demonstrate more of the phonetics, such as you did on the "kk" part. That was helpful. I know the w sounds like a v, but what about dh or gh and the j at the beginning and end of a word. That's more helpful.
If you're not an immigrant, why do you always go through immigration? Touché
fancy words are racist. got it.
I'm really glad I found your channel before starting the journey of learning the French language. Thank you!!!
Love it ❤
Great video
Can you please pronounce (Sweta)?
Love hearing your insight as always 💗 thanks for the beautiful video 💗💗 love from the train back to New York 🗽
Aw thank you!
Love hearing your insight as always 💗 thanks for the beautiful video 💗💗 love from the train back to New York 🗽
Truly touching stories and very very beautifully put together!
Thank youu!
So interesting! I love that you brought up trying to find your identity in speaking different languages...definitely something I've pondered and would love to chat about more :)
I'm so excited to have been a part of this! (Also, the Loons content!) Miss you so much, roomie.
Oh my gosh Kritika!! This video is an absolute masterpiece 🤩🤩🤩I love the way it was put together. ✨💛 please post more like this! I’m obsessed!! 😍
Thank you so much Cherie!! More to come :)
This video is so well done and frames the love language idea in a totally new light! I would say Midwest culture (and maybe more broadly American in general) values expressing love through food (like giving your friends the leftovers when they come over for dinner). There’s nothing like a Tupperware of thanksgiving leftovers from grandmas house lol
Thank you!! Yess the food in Tupperware is such a global experience I love that 🤗
Just my 2 cents. Most expats are coming to another country with an already established work contract from either the company sending them or the company receiving them. 90 something % of those contracts come with generous wages, better housing and an included car. That separates them from the immigrant mass to a better status, that of an expat. Summing up, an expat is an immigrant with better status and benefits.
Thank you! It's a classist word that is annoying, especially in Europe where Northern Europeans call themselves "Expats" but label Southern And Eastern Europeans as "immigrants" those Brits retirees in Spain are just as immigrant as a Spaniard who works in the UK
I love your video... I'm Costarican but I grew up in the States where my whole life I was referred to as an immigrant and when I moved down here to Costa Rica I ran into a lot of mostly Americans who considered themselves Expats, I'd never heard of the term since the only word I was ever pretty much taught or called for someone out of their own country was immigrant, I experienced a lot of arrogance from not all but from a lot of people that consider themselves Expats, like yes I live in your country but I'm better then you, not all I must clarify and not most either but a lot of them, so growing up in the states where I experienced such hate and racism I've decided to do research on the word and I came around your video, thank you for the explanation from now on everyone is going to be called an immigrant in my book..😅😅
I’m so happy you found this video useful!
Could you help me pronounce Aarayna and Aarana these are indian girls names and i know i'm getting it wrong, Please! Thank you!
I could not agree more with this! Ethnocentrism is killing language learning. The lack of integrity deteriorates the ability to speak with confidence.
Madam ji sinj croatia kesa aera hai
Absolutely amazing getting to do this podcast with you. This video is so well done, and I’m looking forward to more convos like this in the future!
Thanks so much Kurien! It was so fun doing this conversation with you and I’d love to create more in the future!
A good idea and a good format. Keep doing the good!
Thank you!
There’s definitely a divide with class and ethnicity when it comes to using the word expat and immigrant. I noticed that expat is commonly used more by western Europeans (mostly English & Irish) people and Americans…. Usually white people. I moved from Croatia to Germany and only plan on staying here for a year. A man on in a reddit group stated he was a (white) American expat in Germany who will stay there for a few years. Ok what’s the difference? Seems like there is none. One of my life goals is to move to either Finland or the US and live there permanently. Moving to the US has been a very difficult process and I still consider myself a migrant/immigrant. In Croatia I met an Australian couple who referred to themselves as expats but had pretty much the same difficulties relocating, yet still called themselves expats. So an expat is someone who doesn’t want to be part of another culture just live there while an immigrant does? I would disagree. Living in Germany for a few months I have encountered soo many immigrants who do not care about German culture or even have desire to learn the language. They are simply there for financial benefits. This wasn’t my intention when moving to Germany but since Croatia is a poorer country I am viewed as the immigrant while people from the US or UK who are already financially stable are expats…. Even if they don’t care abut the culture or language. In American culture in particular an immigrant is almost always considered a non white person usually from a poorer country moving to the US for financial gain. I have many friends in America and when I referred to myself as an immigrant they were confused as to why I would label myself that? Because in their eyes a white European moving at his own leisure is not an immigrant. In Europe I am still considered an Immigrant for moving from a poorer county to a more less poorer country, regardless of reasons why I moved. In my own conclusion: An expat is an immigrant. Usually a snobby white person middle or upper class who is too scared to refer to themselves as an immigrant because in their own culture that word is commonly reserved for poor people and/or people of color.
Hey, I will be in Sudan soon, you are welcome to visit. I am not sure what Sudan offers but should have a lot of culture and history with a civilization that dates to 20k - 30k bce! Again a very thought-out video. Will be waiting for more and see you in Khartoum!!
Loved your experience and narration! Waiting for your next:-)
Thank you!!
Peep the new editing skills! Nice text bubbles!! And stinky baby made a surprise cameo!
Thanks so much!!
The narrative flows really well. Great work!!
Thank you!
It's really a very wonderful experience being a nomad ☺
I hope to do it some day!
Wow. I love this video, really needed to see it actually. I was gonna quote something but really everything from 6:10 on hit me so deeply. Really though, letting go of the expectation that one place is going to cradle me perfectly, as you put it. And embracing all the little things that are my home. Kids laughing, the crackling of fire in a wood stove, the sound of a stream, walking through a forest, rain on a metal roof, just taking a walk by myself down the road… all things that remind me of home. But i want to be more aware of the daily things that feel like home to me, and this video sparked that for me. Thanks :)
Thank you so much Rowan! Love that you shared your little things - I'm so happy you resonated with this video
I do not intend to come across as negative, you seem to be a positive and thoughtful young woman. But, you might expand the variety of references you use for this type of discussion. I reference Thomas Sowell, he has covered this subject extensively. For example, Ebonics is used by a small number of African Americans, almost exclusively poor and poorly educated, not many African American Doctors, Lawyers, or Engineers communicate using ebonics on the job, or in their personal lives. Ebonics, is a form of language that did not, repeat did not, originate anywhere on the African continent. It is way of speaking that was brought to North America from Britain in the 17th century, it is the language of poor whites first in Britain by the poor and uneducated, then in the antebellum south, that enslaved African Americans picked up, most have opted to speak using better English, few have decided not to. I could go on, but I do not match Thomas Sowell for clarity, or brilliance. The question is, do you seek truth, or affirmation in a certain echo chamber?