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Before you can say, “Be careful!  There’s ants!”, you need to know the word for “ant”.  Today we cover the Hindi words for common insects and related animals.  In today’s lesson we cover the Hindi words for insects, black ant, housefly, mosquito, butterfly, honeybee, cockroach, and spider.  We also cover the words for lizard, squirrel, snake, and mouse.

English	Hindi	Pronunciation
insects		kiirde-makorde
black ant		kaalaa ciintaa
housefly		makkhii
mosquito		macachar rdaans
butterfly		titlii
honeybee		madhumkkii
cockroach		tilacattaa
ant		chiintii
spider		makrdii
other animals		any pranii
mongoose		nevalaa
lizard		chipakalii
squirrel		giilharii
mouse		chuhaa
snake		saanp

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Here are the previous day’s lessons if you need to review or catch up:

• July 26, 2008 - #290 Wild Animals (tiger, elephant, lion, leopard, monkey, wolf, deer, and bear)
• July 25, 2008 - #289 Domesticated Animals (donkey, dog, puppy, goat, sheep, lamb, cow, buffalo, camel, horse, and related words)
• July 24, 2008 - #288 Birds (parrot, sparrow, crow, hen, pigeon, eagle, peacock)
• July 23, 2008 - #287 Vegetable (potato, onion, cauliflower, tomato, cabbage, eggplant, pumpkin, okra, peas, carrot, radish)
• July 22, 2008 - #286 Fruits (grapes, mango, banana, papaya, apple, sweet lime, guava, pineapple, pomegranate, orange)

And coming up, we will be covering the following topics.  If you are not already getting an email for each day’s lesson, you can sign up: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1132953&loc=en_US

• July 28, 2008 - #292 Water Animals
• July 29, 2008 - #293 Workers (helpers)
• July 30, 2008 - #294 Vehicles
• July 31, 2008 - #295 Electrical Appliances

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