Week 3

  We started this week with an oral lesson. Today we learned the words for:

1) This ("yeh")

2) That ("voh")

3) He/She (also "voh")

 As a reminder, here are the adjectives we learned in the first two weeks: clean, dirty, small, big, sweet, yellow, red, blue

This week we learned two new adjectives:

Hot = "garam"

Cold = "ThanDaa"

 We practiced saying sentences like: "This bus is yellow", "She is clean", "That hand is not dirty"

  Next we learned a few more words with the "aa" maatraa:

1) King = raajaa राजा

2) Song = gaanaa गाना

3) Mango = aam  आम

4) Carrot = gaajar   गाजर

5) Grandfather (father's side) = daadaa  दादा

6) Grandfather (mother's side) = naanaa  नाना

Week 2

 This week we learned our first maatraa: आ   When a word starts with आ then you simply write the whole letter. So, आ  + ग  = आग

    However, if the   sound is in the middle or at the end of the word then you write it as a "maatraa". The आ  maatraa is simply a vertical line.

So,  ल   + आ +  ल    =  लाल 

Today we learned the following words:

Fire = aag आग Hand = haath हाथ Nose = naak नाक Ear = kaan कान Four = chaar चार

Clean = saaf साफ़

Red = laal लाल 

Black = kaalaa काला 

Today = aaj आज

For our oral lesson today we learned two new adjectives:

saaf (clean) (we also learned how to read and write this word)

gandaa (dirty)

Last week we had learned how to say sentences such as "The bus is red"

Today we learned how to say sentences such as "The bus is not red"

In Hindi, the words would be re-arranged as follows:

The bus is not red --> bus red not is  (bus laaal nahiin hai)

We also learned how to say words in the format "I am ___". The word for "am" is "hoon"

I am red ---> I red am  (main laal hoon)

For an adjective that ends in "aa" such as "gandaa", a girl would say "main gandii hoon" whereas a boy would say "main gandaa hoon"

Week 1

 Welcome to Hindi 2. Here you will find a summary of what we learned during class:

1) We reviewed letters of the alphabet

2) We learned to read, write, and say the following words:

घर (house) बस (bus) दस (ten) फल (fruit) हम (us/we) कल (yesterday/tomorrow)

3) Oral.

We learned to say the following adjectives:

meeThaa (sweet) peelaa (yellow) neela (blue) chhoTaa (small)

baRaa (big)

laal (red)

We learned how to say sentences in the following format: The __(noun)___ is ___(adjective)___ For example let's look at the sentence: The house is big When you translate it into Hindi, the word "the" is dropped. THE is not used in the sentence. And then the order of the words is changed. "The house is big" becomes "house big is" The house is big = ghar baRaa hai