Today we cover some basic words. We are basing our lessons on a book that was meant to teach Hindi speaking children English. So, they have selected some English words that have each of the English vowels, i.e. a, e, i, o, u. Today we are covering the words in the “a” and “e” section.

words is शब्द (shabd). Now in order to make sure it shows up correctly on everyone’s computer, and to make it bigger, I am also going to include the Hindi words as images. Please let me know what you think.

Words = (shabd)

hat = (pronounced “heit” in the transliteration scheme that we have been using, but the same as “hat” in English)

cat = (billii)

bat = (ballaa)

mat = (chataaii)

van = (motargaardii)

fan = (pankhaa)

bed = (palang)

net = (jaal)

leg = (taang)

pen = (kalam)

bell = (ghantaa)

hen = (murgii)

You will be able to understand these lessons more if you have the Kid’s Primer (http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/06/26/260-kids-primer-intro/)