India's northeastern states, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and the hill districts of Assam, are home to dozens of languages from the Tibeto-Burman family, as well as Khasi, which belongs to yet another family. These languages are unrelated to Hindi, Bengali or Tamil, and the English spoken by their speakers has been studied as a distinct variety of Indian English. What you will learn: • The region's languages in one minute • Consonant shifts • Vowel shifts • Rhythm and melody • Particles and discourse words • The decode routine: undo the shift • Practice: decode the sentence • Listening strategies • Self-check questions to test your ear Level: B1–B2. Self-study: listen, then take the quizzes. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.