I Speak Hindi

 

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Today’s ISpeakHindi podcast focuses on building vocabulary related to fantasy and imagination including the Hindi words for prince, princess, prison, queen, sword, treasure, witch. This is out of the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary” on pages 78.
Fantasy and Imagination – भावना तथा कल्पना
Prince – राजकुमार
Princess – राजकुमारी
Prison – कारावास
Queen – रानी
Sword – तलवार
Treasure – खज़ाना
Witch [...]

Ok.. Made a lot of progress today. I have decided to try to do a Hindi <-> English dictionary using the Wiki. And I’m going to link this to the words in the podcasts. You can see an example in Thursday’s posting:
Vocabulary Builder: Fantasy and Imagination
Click on the English word to be [...]

 

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Today’s ISpeakHindi podcast focuses on building vocabulary related to fantasy and imagination including the Hindi words for angel, cannon, castle, circus, clown, crown, dragon, ghost, giant, king, magician, monster, palace, and pirate. This is out of the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary” on pages 76-77.
Fantasy and Imagination – भावना तथा कल्पना
Angel-फ़रिश्ता
Cannon-तोप
Castle-किला
Circus-सर्कस
Clown-मस्रवरा
Crown-ताज
Dragon-अजगर
Ghost-भूत
Giant-जिन
King-राजा
Magician-जादूगर
Monster-राक्षस
Palace-महल
Pirate-समुन्द्री डाकू
(The book A [...]

Have you heard of Wikis? Maybe you have heard of wikipedia? It is this online encyclopedia that is being edited by people all over the world. In fact, you can go right there, right now and contribute. You can create new articles, edit existing ones… you don’t even have to log [...]

 

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Today’s ISpeakHindi podcast focuses on building vocabulary related to toys, games and musical instruments including the Hindi words for running, swimming, swing, tambourine, trombone, and trumpet. We also point out that the Hindi and English words are the same for roller boots, roundabout, rounders, seesaw, skipping-rope, slide, table tennis, tennis, violin, and xylophone. [...]