Week 3

  Today we started learning words with the आ  (aah) sound in them. When a word starts with आ , the full letter आ  is used.
For example:

आज (aaj) (today)
आग (aag) (fire)

 However, when the "aah" sound is used in either the middle or the end of the word, then it is written as a "maatraa". You drop the "अ " part of the letter, and keep the "ा " part.

 So क+आ+न would be written as कान 
ल+आ+ल would be written as लाल 

Here are the 10 words we learned today:

आज (aaj) (today)
आग (aag) (fire)
लाल (laal) (red)
काला (kaala) (black)
बाल (baal) (hair)
हाथ (haath) (hand)
दाल (daal) 
कान (kaan) (ear)
नाक (naak) (nose)
चार (chaar) (four)

We practiced  making sentences with the above words in the format:
The __(noun)___ is ___(adjective)___
The __(noun___ isn't ___(adjective)___

For homework this week, show your child the following pictures, and ask them to tell you what the picture is in Hindi. Then ask speak a basic sentence with the word.

Week 2

  We spent the first half of the class playing games that helped us review the nouns we learned last week.
  We then added a few more adjectives to our oral repertoire:
Pink (gulaabii)
White (safed)
Hot (garam)
Cold (ThanDaa)
Good (achhaa)
Bad (buraa / kharaab)
Clean (saaf)
Dirty (gandaa)

We then practiced saying sentences such as:

The house is dirty
(ghar gandaa hai)

The fruit is cold
(phal ThanDaa hai)

** Next we learned how to say sentences in the following format: 
The (noun) is not (adjective).
For example: The house is not big.
In Hindi, the words get rearranged in the following fashion:
House big not is.
Remember, "the" gets dropped, and "is" always goes at the end. "Not" goes right before "is." The word for "not" is the same word as the word in Hindi for "no": "nahii"

Example:
The house is big = ghar baRaa hai
The house is not big = ghar baRaa nahii hai

For homework this week, please do the following:

1) Practice writing the following Hindi words twice. Know their definitions (see Week 1 blog):

कल  
फल 
घर 
बस 
दस

2) Say the following sentences in Hindi (answers are in the video embedded below)

 - The house is big
 - The house is not small
 - The fruit is good
 - The fruit is not dirty
 - The bus is clean
 - The bus is not bad

Next week, we will start learning words with our first maatraa.

Week 1

Welcome everyone to Hindi-2!
Here you will find a summary of the week's lesson, along with homework. 

We started off playing a game that involved recognizing letters that were written on the board. The kids were rusty, but that is to be expected after a long summer break! So that brings us to homework, part 1. Please show your child the following letters, and see if they recognize them:

ल 

स 

क 

घ 

फ 

ब 

Next we learned how to put three sounds together to make two-letter words:
For example, k + uh + l  (क + अ + ल )
When you write the word in Hindi, the middle अ is dropped, so you basically write the two consonants in succession.
क + अ + ल = कल 
घ + अ  + र  = घर 

We learned the following 5 words:

कल  (yesterday/tomorrow)
फल (fruit)
घर (house/home)
बस (bus)
दस (ten)

Homework part 2: please have your child practice writing the 5 words above. Once by having them copy the word as they see it, and the 2nd time by telling them the word in English and asking them to write it in Hindi (that will probably be tough for now)

Finally the students, came up with adjectives in order to form basic sentences with the above words. These are the adjectives that we have learned so far:
black ("kaalaa")
yellow ("peelaa")
red ("laal")
green ("haraa")
big ("baRaa")
small ("ChhoTaa")
round ("gol")

For the speaking part of the lesson, we explored how to say sentences in the following format:
The ____ is ____
In Hindi, the word "the" is not used, and then the order of the last two words is flipped.
The English sentence "The bus is yellow" would turn into "bus yellow is" when it is translated into Hindi.
The English sentence "The house is red" would turn into "house red is".

Homework part 3. Please have your child try to say the following sentences in Hindi:

The fruit is small
The house is big
The bus is red

Here is what that would sound like in Hindi: