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Lesson #8: Vowels Recap
Apologies everyone, I’ve been incredibly busy recently so haven’t had time to update the blog. Here’s the newly finished completely updated version of Lesson #8. Be sure to work through the Vowels Section first! Enjoy.
Phew! If you’ve been working all the way through the Vowels Section then I’ve got some great news; we’ve now covered every single Hindi vowel! This means you should be able to recognise every single vowel in written and spoken Hindi, that sounds good doesn’t it? Of course it does - but here’s the catch, can you remember everything we’ve covered?
It’s so important to keep revising everything you learn - otherwise it just drops out of your mind!
There we’re 11 vowels, do you think you can remember them all? Well if you think you’re a little a rusty then that’s great because today we’re going to quickly recap over everything we’ve seen in the last few lessons! Ready to get going?
So here we go, deep breath! In Lesson #2 we began by learning the first two Hindi vowels…
Anonymous asked: I admire your great effort and the joyful spirit, which can be felt in every lesson and every sentence in your blog. However, I am an elderly person and can’t sit at my PC for long. Therefore, would like to request your permission to print your lessons and bind them in a small booklet, which I can use in my bed or while sitting in a comfortable couch. It is going to be for my personal use only and will never be duplicated, so that it would never fall in wrong hands. Say “Yes” please!
Namaste! Thank you so much for such a lovely message. Honestly reading things like that make me so happy! Sorry for the slightly delayed reply, I hope you forgive me.
Nothing quite beats reading a physical book does it?
As for the answer to your question, of course you can! I would love to think that my readers are printing out lessons to read when they are away from the computer, so please feel free to print as much as you want.
If you are printing anything for your own personal use, then that’s yours - feel free to do whatever you want with it! You can scribble all over it add annotations, whatever.
But if you are ever printing notes for other people (which I do actually encourage!) then I kindly ask for you to do just three things for me; 1. clearly label each page of the printed notes with http://www.learning-hindi.com/, 2. do not edit the actual text in anyway and 3. absolutely do not sell the notes to anyone in anyway collecting any form of profit. (I’m not accusing you of doing these, so I hope you’re not offended, it’s just good to make sure the rules are completely clear to everyone).
I hope that helps you, best of luck with the rest of your Hindi learning journey! Please feel free to ask if you ever have any more questions! All the best.
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Lesson #126: Urdu Vowels Part 4: e
Remember the Urdu lessons are only for those interested in the language. Be sure to check out the Urdu Section if you haven’t already!
I do admit it’s unfortunately been a while since we last saw a lesson on Urdu, can you still remember everything we’ve covered so far? Let’s recap quickly then! We’ve seen six Urdu vowels; a and aa, i and ee and finally u and oo. We’ve also seen our first Urdu consonant; be. Be sure to head back to the respective lessons if you feel your memory is a little hazy! You should be able to recognise all the vowels in the word below (and only the vowels, we haven’t seen the consonants yet!) so go on give it a go…
duniyaa - The World
Feel free to head back to the older lessons if you got stuck a little! Anyway today we’re going to look at just one more Urdu vowel, e. How easy does that sound? Plus in the process we’ll learn a whole new letter of the Urdu alphabet! So are you all ready to get going? Great! Here goes…
Lesson #125: तो to - So, Then + Comparing
In today’s lesson we’re going to look at a very common little Hindi word, but a word that can often be quite tricky to understand and use correctly. The word is; तो to. Have you ever seen it before? You should have because for a start it came up last lesson! Anyway hopefully by the end of this lesson you should understand this word perfectly so are you ready to get into it?
तो to has two general uses, so let’s look at them one at a time. I mean, that would be the sensible thing right? Here’s an example sentence demonstrating the first use of तो to. Have a read of it a few times, then after I’ll explain…
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तो आप संजय हैं? to aap sanjay hain?
- So, you’re Sanjay?
That was quite straight forward yeah? Can you see what तो to has done to this sentence? That’s right, it’s real easy; starting the sentence with तो to is just like starting an English sentence with ‘so’. And that’s the first use of तो to. Easy hey! Let’s look at a few more examples…
semipolyglot asked: I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to type the कृपया in "kripaya". What is the letter that is conjoined with 'ka' to make it? I love these lessons! Thank you so much for posting them!
नमस्ते namaste and thanks for the question! So how do we type the Hindi word for please, कृपया kripayaa, using our Hindi keyboard?
Well firstly make sure you have a Hindi keyboard installed! For more info on this head over to Lesson #10. So then the next problem is this little ‘flick’ you mention that we have under the क ka. Just what is it?
Learning a language is never easy, so don’t worry we all come across our own personal problems and difficulties!
Rest assured I’m here to help! The flick under the क ka is actually the symbol for a vowel, and that vowel is ऋ ri. We learnt all about this vowel right at the start in Lesson #7 so be sure to hear over there to learn more about it! When typing in Hindi we add this vowel symbol to a consonant by typing ‘=’, and we get the vowel itself by typing ‘+’.
So altogether you simply type ‘k=h/e’ to give you कृपया kripayaa - Please. Does that help you? Be sure to ask if you have any more questions!
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