I Speak Hindi

Today’s ISpeakHindi podcast focuses on building vocabulary related to people at work including the Hindi words for acrobat, artist, baker, builder, businessman, and butcher. This is out of the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary” on page 53.

(The book A First Bilingual Dictionary: English / Hindi (First Bilingual Dictionaries) is currently out of print. However, you can sometimes find used copies on Amazon.)

People at work  काम पर लोग

Acrobat-बाज़ीगर

Butcher-कसाई

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Today, we have an interview with  Shirish Nadkarni, the CEO of LiveMocha. This is an innovative way to learn several languages including Hindi. The LiveMocha.com service makes learning Hindi fun by helping you to connect with other people learning the language and people that already know the language. LiveMocha keeps you motivated by tracking your progress and adding an element of friendly competition to keep you encouraged and engaged.

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Today’s ISpeakHindi podcast focuses on building vocabulary related to Space including the Hindi words for comet, Earth, moon, rocket, satellite and stars. This is out of the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary” on page 52.(The book A First Bilingual Dictionary: English / Hindi (First Bilingual Dictionaries) is currently out of print. However, you can sometimes find used copies on Amazon.)

Space-अन्तर

Comet-कोमट

Earth-पृथ्वी

Moon-चान्द

Rocket -राकेट

satellite –सैटेलाईट

Stars-तारे

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Today’s ISpeakHindi podcast focuses on building vocabulary related to Natural Features (प्राकतिक लश्रण) covering the words below out of the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary” on page 51. (The book A First Bilingual Dictionary: English / Hindi (First Bilingual Dictionaries) is currently out of print. However, you can sometimes find used copies on Amazon.)

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We recorded three sessions today.  Meena and Nariandas will be in India from the end of November till February.  Therefore, it might be very difficult to stay on top of the daily schedule without them here.  So, we are attempting to record ahead until February.  And then I will augment this with other sessions that I am able to get from Sonia and others.  Also, I will be going to Dubai in November, so I hope to get a of material from that.  But just in case, I am trying to record 120 sessions over the next 3 weeks.  This is going to be a crazy schedule.

Today, we went to the Hindu temple in Pearland.  It is a south Indian temple, so very few people spoke Hindi.   But I got some material that might be useful for a future session.  Also, I think South Indians might find ISpeakHindi.com useful.

I have added the Hindi words and pronunciation  for the session tomorrow.  I am trying to improve the sessions a little each day.  But I am getting squeezed between a lot of things right now, so that is very difficult.

Unfortunately, with all this work on ISpeakHindi.com, I am actually having trouble finding time to study Hindi myself.  So, I am afraid that I am not seeing my Hindi improving.

Well, that is all for today….

Today’s ISpeakHindi podcast focuses on building vocabulary related to Natural Features (प्राकतिक लश्रण) including the Hindi words for cave (गुफ़ा), cliff (चट्टान), desert (मारूथल), earthquake (भूचांल), island (टापू) and lake (झील).  This is out of the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary” on page 50.

(The book A First Bilingual Dictionary: English / Hindi (First Bilingual Dictionaries) is currently out of print.  However, you can sometimes find used copies on Amazon.)

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Today’s podcast will have a list of words covered in English and Hindi. And the Hindi words will be linked to a sound file for that word. So, by clicking on the Hindi word, you should be able to hear it.

Not much other than that has changed with the site. But I am trying to improve the daily postings to make them more useful to you.

Also, Stacey has sent me a lot of the Devanagari text for some of the previous podcasts. I will be adding them shortly.

In today’s ISpeakHindi podcast, we continue to build vocabulary using the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary.” Today, we learn words related to Weather and Seasons (pg. 49) including the Hindi words for sky, snow, spring, storm, summer, sun, wind and winter.

Weather and Seasons  - मोसम तथा ऋतुऐं
Sky-आकाश
Snow-बर्फ़
Spring-बहार
Storm-तूफ़ान
Summer-गर्मीआं
Sunshine-सूर्य
Wind-हवा
Winter-सर्दिआं

(The book A First Bilingual Dictionary: English / Hindi (First Bilingual Dictionaries) is currently out of print. However, you can sometimes find used copies on Amazon.)

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This has been a very busy and interesting week.  I got an email from a “Community Manager” at LiveMocha.  This site offers language instruction in several languages including Hindi.  It appears to be well done.  It is free.  But there are two additional components that help to set it apart.  It overs a “scoring” system that is displayed in your profile that shows how many sections of the material you have completed.  Also, it is hooked into Facebook.  And provides a way for you to interact with other people that know the language you are learning or people that are also are learning.  It looks like we might have a special interview with the CEO of LiveMocha next week.  That could provide us all a chance to hear, first hand, how LiveMocha can help us to learn Hindi.

This week, ISpeakHindi.com received its first $10 donation.  Earlier this week, I signed up for a PayPal account and put the sidebar link that says “Please consider supporting this site.  A $10 donation would go a long way.”  This can only be found on the front page.  Well, a listener decided that this program was worthy and donated.  I think I would like to have a “page of thanks” so I can list out all the people that have helped put this site together.  The people that help to write the text on the site, record the program, and make the site better.  As well as those that contribute by giving money.  So, please consider supporting this site if you find it useful.

The donation has really made me reconsider pursuing ad revenue.  It only brings in about $20/month.  I don’t like ads.  I think they are distracting.  And I want people coming to the site because they find the content helpful.  I do not want to have people coming to the site just to send them some place else.  So, I am planning to remove the ads from all the site except for the “list of sites” pages and the “site search” page.  I figure the ads makes sense on both of these pages because the visitor is already looking to go some place else.  So, I have removed the ads from the front page.  And I will remove them from the other pages over time.  It may take a little while to remove them from the entire site, because I do not plan to make changes to the “non-WordPress” pages.  Instead, I intend to integrate all the content into WordPress, and have it use the same template files.  So, it may be many months before you see it removed from some of the secondary pages.

Also, a friend of mind was looking at the podcast listed on the front page.  He pointed out a lot of things that did not make sense.  This has led me to change the title of the podcasts and the descriptions.  I really want to get more of the Hindi content out there with some quizzes and exercises.  But we have to make small steps each day.  It might be many years before we get this site to a point that we really want.  But we have begun the journey, and we will continue the journey.  And eventually I and you will be very comfortable in Hindi.

Well, that’s all for today.

In today’s ISpeakHindi podcast, we continue to build vocabulary using the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary.” Today, we learn words related to Weather and Seasons (pg. 48) including the Hindi words for autumn, cloud, flood, fog, rain and rainbow.

(The book A First Bilingual Dictionary: English / Hindi (First Bilingual Dictionaries) is currently out of print. However, you can sometimes find used copies on Amazon.)

Weather and Seasons  - मोसम तथा ऋतुऐं
Autumn-पतझड़
Cloud-बादल

flood-बाढ
Fog-धुन्ध
Rain-वर्षा
Rainbow-इन्द्रधनूष

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