Hindi

Conan O'Brien Welcomes the Oscars' International Audience

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A clip from the Oscars 2025, where host Conan O'Brien greets the Spanish-speaking audience, wishes the Indian audience an enjoyable breakfast, and then begs the Chinese audience to hire him and help him out of his financial debt (I think... between myself and three native speakers we could not figure out what exactly he's trying to say).

Posted by Arianne Lin on March 3, 2025

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Hindi;
Mandarin Chinese;
Spanish;
Politics and Policy

Code-switching in the song "Exotic"

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This artifact is the song “Exotic” by Priyanka Chopra ft. Pitbull, and this is an example of code-switching because they sing in Hindi and English, which is because of Priyanka Chopra and her Indian roots and her attempt to add some of her culture and language to this song. The song also mentions various cities/countries around the world. Thus, the song’s use of Hindi and English expresses code-switching and shows her reaching out to a larger and more diverse audience.

Posted by Millie Shah on July 28, 2021

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Code-switching;
Globalization;
Multilingualism;
Hindi