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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 – जादूगरनी

Wizard – जादूगर

(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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Also, you can look and contribute to the Wiki page for this episode. You can find it here. And if you want to look at the wiki pages for the other episodes, upcoming episodes, or contribute to the ideas for episodes, then look here.

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 taken to a wiki page that has nothing more than the word association.  You can click on the Hindi word on that wiki page, or the Hindi word in the podcast post and it takes you to a more detailed looking page.  There is not much details there, but you can see the outline of what I have planned.

Also, this is a good time/place for you to enter any information about these words that you know.  Just click the edit button and add away!

Also, on the home page you will see a way that you can subscribe to the daily podcast via email.  This can be a good way for you stay on top of your Hindi learning!

And I have added a little video with a link from the front page to explain how to use the site.   “Click here to watch a short video overview on how to use the site.“  I will be adding more videos about how to use the Wiki.

Plus, Sonia and I recorded an episode to be published from Friday.  I still have to edit it and post it.  So it might be late on Friday before it actually gets out there.

Well, with all that, I think things are coming along.  It is amazing to think of how far we have come with this project.  Still so much to do and learn…  Well at least I have a great group of people to do it with!

BTW, thank you all for rating the podcasts, sending the emails, and leaving comments.

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

Click the play button below to hear the podcast. After you listen to the podcast, please rate it by click the stars below. Also, if there is something that you really liked about the podcast or something you thought that should have been done different, then leave us a comment.

Also, you can look and contribute to the Wiki page for this episode. You can find it here. And if you want to look at the wiki pages for the other episodes, upcoming episodes, or contribute to the ideas for episodes, then look here.

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 in.. (at least the last time I checked you didn’t)

Anyway, the software behind that marvel is MediaWiki. And it is freely available, just like WordPress (which you are looking at right now!)… Anyway, I have setup a Wiki for the ISpeakHindi site.

We can make this a good resource about Hindi and Hindi learning. But we can also use it to create the scripts and ideas behind our daily podcast.

Several pages you need to check out. The main page: http://www.ispeakhindi.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Then I have created ones for sessions, both present and future. And ideas for sessions that haven’t been written yet. You can see that here:

http://www.ispeakhindi.com/wiki/index.php?title=ISpeakHindi_Sessions

Also, I have a list of all the December 2007 episodes on one page:

http://www.ispeakhindi.com/wiki/index.php?title=December_2007_Podcasts

And I have the episodes that are still coming up for the month here:

http://www.ispeakhindi.com/wiki/index.php?title=December_2007_Upcoming_Podcasts

Now how can you help? Glad you asked :-)

Probably the most important thing is to improve the quality of the daily podcasts. I think having well thought out and rehearsed scripts would be the best way to do that. So, please click on one of the upcoming episodes and help me create some compelling dialog:

http://www.ispeakhindi.com/wiki/index.php?title=December_2007_Upcoming_Podcasts

Ok, looking for something a little less mind intensive?

Well, a lot of people have emailed me saying that we need an easier way to get to past episodes. (Apparently people don’t like click the “previous” link a million times… I don’t like it either…)

Well, I have created a page for all the December 2007 episodes:

http://www.ispeakhindi.com/wiki/index.php?title=December_2007_Podcasts

Can you be a dear and create a similar page for the other months?

http://www.ispeakhindi.com/wiki/index.php?title=ISpeakHindi_Sessions

Ok.. so, that doesn’t suit you either? hummm. How about add some ideas for future sessions to the bottom of this page:

http://www.ispeakhindi.com/wiki/index.php?title=ISpeakHindi_Sessions

Ok, well, I hope that you all will help me out here. We can really get a good thing going.

However, remember that anyone, and I mean ANYONE, can edit these pages. that means we are going to have people posting spam, and other craziness. So, when you see this, look at the history tab, and roll back to a better version.. Or just delete the bad stuff. This is one thing that I am really concerned about. and if you have experience on how to fight it, just let me know.

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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. This is out of the book “A First Bilingual Dictionary” on pages 74-75.

Toys, Games and Muscial Instruments – खिलोने खेलें तथा संगीत साज़
Roller boots-रोलर बूटस
Roundabout-राऊंड अबाऊट
Rounders-राऊडंर्ज़
Running-दोड़ना
Seesaw-सीसॉ
Skipping-rope-स्किोपिंग रोप
Slide-स्लाईड
Swimming-तैरना
Swing-पींग
Table tennis-टेबल टैनिस
Tambourine-डफ़ली
Tennis-टैनिस
Trombone-तुरहा
Trumpet-तुरही
Violin-वॉयलिन
Xylophone-ज़ाईलोफ़ोन

(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.)

Click the play button below to hear the podcast. After you listen to the podcast, please rate it by click the stars below. Also, if there is something that you really liked about the podcast or something you thought that should have been done different, then leave us a comment.

Also, you can look and contribute to the Wiki page for this episode. You can find it here. And if you want to look at the wiki pages for the other episodes, upcoming episodes, or contribute to the ideas for episodes, then look here.