"दीवारें देख रही हैं।"
Translation:The walls are watching.
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As someone who spoke Hindi at home, this is idiomatic, but extremely awkward. It basically means the house is haunted or someone has cast some evil eye on it, very weird to put in a language course, but ok. Don't kill me duo
It actually makes complete sense to me; I think the idiom is universally understood.
No it's not, because "the walls have eyes" means something completely different in English.
In the Armenian language we have an expression "The walls have ears", meaning "someone might be listening to us". Perhaps दीवारें देख रही हैं means "Someone might be watching us".
In Hindi as well. The expression 'दीवारों के भी कान होते हैं'-'Even walls have ears' is quite common.
I have never heard the idiom about walls watching you before.
We use that one in English too; at least, it's a common saying around my workplace
In Russian too, but there it can be both, one can use either ears, or eyes.
In Persian there is a proverb says the wall has mouse and the mouse has ear
In Pushto, it is more like English's "The Wall", where it is called "Dewal".
I think this course can be a trouble for (only-)English speakers as there is no exact match for phrases and structures. For other languages it may make sense with exact translation or by close analogy.
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As English speakers we can find the close meaning of awkward-sounding sentences. Expecting precise English translation is what creates frustration. I'm grateful for this generous course. I do intend to supplement it with further Hindi courses that teach me to better speak the language.
Vijairampe1, did you find other Hindi courses? If yes, pls, share with me. I have reached level 25 of this course in Duo, and am interested in further developing my Hindi language skills through other courses.
Its like .. I am a fish.. Issue is construction of words or sentence correctly ..right due? Even it may not have correct meaning.
