Week 11

  This week's lesson focused on speaking. We learned the word for "my", which is "meraa" or "merii". Whether you use meraa or merii depends on whether the thing you own is masculine or feminine (not whether you yourself are a boy or a girl)

My grandmother is big = merii daadii baRii hai

My king is big = meraa raajaa baRaa hai

We then learned the words for "your":  "tumhaaraa" or "tumhaarii"

And the words for "our": "hamaaraa" or "hamaarii"

And the words for "his" and "her" (The same words are used for his and her):  "uskaa" or "uskii"

And finally the words for their: "unkaa" or "unkii"

Week 10

 Today we continued learning words with the "baRii u maatraa"  

1) Am ("hoon") हूँ

2) Potato ("aaloo") आलू

3) Prayer ("poojaa") पूजा

4) Bear ("bhaaloo") भालू

5) Sun ("sooraj") सूरज

Week 9

 Today we learned two new adjectives (both how to say them and how to write them):

New = nayaa   नया

Old = puraanaa   पुराना

    

   We then learned the next maatraa,  the "baRii u kii maatraa." This maatraa makes the long "oo" sound, like in the English words "pool" and "fool".

Compare: प + उ + ल = पुल (pronounced "pull") प + ऊ + ल = पूल (pronounced "pool")

Here are the other new words we learned today:

फूल (phool) (flower) चूहा (choohaa) (mouse) जूता (jootaa) (shoe) दूध (doodh) (milk)