Today, we recorded 5 vocabulary builders and 1 scenario session about buying a DVD at the store.

Got 2 sessions edited.  One for tomorrow.  And the other one I need to listen to again to be sure I cut out the mistakes and noises…  But that will be for the day after that.

Stacey has emailed me the Hindi text for most of the posts on the site.  I have gone through most of her updates.

I create a start of the “page of thanks” page I’m working on to acknowledge all the people that have helped with the site including my family, Stacey, Marty, and others.  It is going to take a while to get that up.  I am really worried about falling behind on the daily podcasts.. I would like to get setup with about a month or more lead time on the podcasts..

I have also been trying to recruit other speakers for the site.  I think you might be hearing some new voices soon.  If you speak Hindi or know someone that does, then please let me know.

Oh, I hope you got a chance to hear the interview with the CEO of LiveMocha.  I believe there are a lot of key areas that LiveMocha and ISpeakHindi.com could work on together such as a tutor market place for Hindi tutors, have common profiles of users on both sites, allow for ISpeakHindi.com listeners to get LiveMocha points by listening to podcasts and taking a test.  Once I make a lot more progress on the ISpeakHindi site, I hope to bring these things up to the LiveMocha team.  But that is probably 6 months from now.

The future is bright… but one step at a time…

I want to thank everyone that has, is, and will be contributing to this site. Every email, comment, rating, suggestion, etc. is very helpful. But I would like to thank point out some individuals.

First, my family, without Meena and Nariandas, there really would not be a program. And my wife, Sonia has been very helpful to. I hope to eventually get my children involved as well.

Stacey Yount has typed in most of the Hindi words you see on the site. So, when you are reading along with the podcast, be thankful to her. Here is some information about her:

Stacey Yount lives in Florida with her husband Jim and their cat Soniya. I began watching Bollywood films about 2 years ago and am totally hooked on the genre. After making many friends on Bollywood fan sites I decided I wanted to learn Hindi to be able to speak with them, understand when they wrote certain lyrics or lines in Hindi, I wanted to be able to listen to and understand a song or hopefully one day watch a movie without subtitles. I have been studying Hindi for over a year now and am eager to continue. One of my favorite things is that I can now read and write Devanagari. I just gotta work on building that vocabulary! I would love to be fluent in the beautiful language and hopefully Jim and I can one day go to India. I am journalist for Bollyspice magazine (www.bollyspice.com) an online magazine with news, reviews and articles on Bollywood.

Marty Ohl - After seeing my first attempts of creating a look and feel for the site, Marty took pity on me and created what you see now.

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Today’s ISpeakHindi podcast focuses on building vocabulary related to people at work including the Hindi words for carpenter, cook, dentist, diver, doctor, electrician, farmer, and fire-fighter. This is out of the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary” on page 54.

(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

Carpenter-बढई

Electrician-इलैक्ट्रीशीश्न

fire-fighter-आग बुझाने वाला 

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