I Speak Hindi

 

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Let us ask Ajay about his wife, Richa.  This will illustrate some ways to talk about a third person.  Before we hear the interview, let us answer the review questions from last time.
Answer the following question with हाँ or नहीं.
1) क्या रीचा दिल्ली से हैं? 
(kyaa riichaa dillii se hain)
Is Richa from Delhi?
Answer:
नहीं। रीचा [...]

 

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In the last episode, we met Ajay.  Today we meet his wife Richa and ask her similar questions.  Before we go through that interview, let us make sure you got the answers to the last episode.
 
Answer the following questions with yes हाँ (haan) or no  नहीं (nahiin).
1)  क्या अजय मुर्गी खाता है?  (kyaa ajay murgii [...]

 

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Today we interview Ajay with many of the same questions that were part of Conversation 1 set of questions that we covered.
Let us first answer the review questions from last session:
Translate the following from Hindi into English:
1) मेज़ – table
2) पर – on
3) बिल्ली – cat
4) कुरसी  – chair
Translate the following from English into [...]

 

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Today we are going to learn the Hindi equivalent for the words “on” and “to”.  In the last episode, we mentioned that in Hindi we call these “postpositions” because they come “after” or “post” the noun that they show the relation to.  More about that after we give you the answer to the review questions [...]

 

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Today we are going to learn the Hindi words for “in”, “from”, and “up to” (में, से, तक).  In English, we would call these “prepositions”.  Because they tell us the relative “position” of something and it comes “before” or “pre” the word that it is related to.  For example, “in the house”.  The word “in” [...]