Beginner Hindi #002 - Consonants - Part 1
Mastered the vowels already? That was quick. Time to move on to the consonants… but lets start small. Lets learn the first line of consonants, the first 5. Press “Play” below to hear the podcast or use the one of the other play options.
क ख ग घ ङ
Now, each consonant already has the first vowel sound as part of it. But you can add each of the other vowels to produce different sounds. This is what it looks like for the first consonants क.
क + आ = का
क + इ = कि
क + ई = की
क + उ = कु
क + ऊ = कू
क + ए = के
क + ऐ = कै
क + ओ = को
क + औ = कौ
It is the same pattern for the other consonants.
dsada said,
September 24, 2007 @ 8:43 am
Nice Site!
kevin said,
July 31, 2008 @ 8:54 am
Nathan-ji,
vahan site bohut sahi hai! Sukriyah tumhari site liye. One thing, though: could you put the roman translations here for the letters as well?
kevin said,
July 31, 2008 @ 9:00 am
…oops. Tumhare. I’ve been on and off on hindi for a bit. Thanks to you and a few good site recommendations, I am looking to be more consistent. I’d aim to master, but mastery takes a life time. Still, keep up the good work!
admin said,
August 1, 2008 @ 5:42 am
We have the transliteration on the most of the new lessons. Here is one with the Hindi sounds:
http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/06/30/264-hindi-sounds-part-1/
Also, we are working on documenting our transliteration scheme on the wiki, you can see that here:
http://www.ispeakhindi.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hindi_transliteration