I Speak Hindi

First off, I wanted to let you know about a site that Simione Messier and her daughter created. They have been listening to the program, their site is about their travels to India, and we both thought you might enjoy it. It is called “Roam with OM”. You can find it at http://www.RoamWithOM.com.

Also, we have started using a different WordPress theme for http://www.ISpeakHindi.com. It shows more of the entries on the front page, allows for you to navigate the previous entries using a calendar, and shows you categories. If there is a WordPress theme that you think would be good for ISpeakHindi.com, please email me at nathan@IspeakHindi.com. We are trying to come up with a list of categories and tags to associate to the sessions to help you find the ones you are interested in. If you have some suggestions, please let me know. We have also installed a plugin to hide the ads on recent podcasts for our repeat visitors. Hopefully this will make your visits to ISpeakHindi.com more enjoyable. Let me know if you have further suggestions on improving the site.

The Wiki is back up at http://www.ISpeakHindi.com/wiki. There is still a lot of spam, but apparently that is not what Google had de-listed us for. Someone apparently had hacked into the main page of ISpeakHindi.com and put some hidden links to other sites. This is what had violated Google’s terms. However, the spam on the wiki still needs to be taken care of. If you are familiar with MediaWiki and have some suggestions on confronting this problem, then please let me know.

I am also looking at using Moodle to run the ISpeakHindi site. It is meant for online schools. It allows for you to have quizzes, assignments, discussion boards, and many other things. I was thinking it would be very useful to have quizzes that you could take after each podcast to test what you had learned. If you have some experience with Moodle or other software like it and have some advice, please let me know.

Hello Everyone,

Namaste नमस्ते

Good morning to all of you, I am Shipra Gupta from India. I am an online tutor who takes Hindi lessons online. I am very thankful to all the listeners for such a great response and for sending me all your queries.

So let’s start the work for today. It is – little- thoda- थोडा

The spelling in English is little- thoda- थोडा

The sentence is, little money-thode paise- थोडे पैसे

I am sure everyone is able to understand it clearly

See you all tomorrow.

bye n अलविदा

 

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Hello Everyone,

Namaste नमस्ते

Good morning to all of you, I am Shipra Gupta from India. I am an online tutor who takes Hindi lessons online. I am very thankful to all the listeners for such a great response and for sending me all your queries.

So let’s start the work for today. It is inside–भीतर

The spelling in English is bheetar भीतर

The sentence is –come inside— भीतर आ जाओ

I am sure everyone is able to understand it clearly

See you all tomorrow.

bye n अलविदा

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I want to thank everyone that has, is, and will be contributing to this site. Every email, comment, rating, suggestion, etc. is very helpful. But I would like to thank point out some individuals.

First, my family, without Meena and Nariandas, there really would not be a program. And my wife, Sonia has been very helpful to. I hope to eventually get my children involved as well.

Stacey Yount has typed in most of the Hindi words you see on the site. So, when you are reading along with the podcast, be thankful to her. Here is some information about her:

Stacey Yount lives in Florida with her husband Jim and their cat Soniya. I began watching Bollywood films about 2 years ago and am totally hooked on the genre. After making many friends on Bollywood fan sites I decided I wanted to learn Hindi to be able to speak with them, understand when they wrote certain lyrics or lines in Hindi, I wanted to be able to listen to and understand a song or hopefully one day watch a movie without subtitles. I have been studying Hindi for over a year now and am eager to continue. One of my favorite things is that I can now read and write Devanagari. I just gotta work on building that vocabulary! I would love to be fluent in the beautiful language and hopefully Jim and I can one day go to India. I am journalist for Bollyspice magazine (www.bollyspice.com) an online magazine with news, reviews and articles on Bollywood.

Marty Ohl - After seeing my first attempts of creating a look and feel for the site, Marty took pity on me and created what you see now.

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Welcome to the ISpeakHindi Home page.

Google Labs has a “indic transliterator” which will take Latin characters such as “namaste” and turn it into नमस्ते.  Here is the link:

http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/

More information:

http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/about.html

Also, this is being used in Blogger to let you blog in Hindi:

https://www.blogger.com/hindi

How to enable Hindi in your OS/Browser:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts

Mapping of Latin to Devanagri that is used for the transliteration:

http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/about_mappings.html

This was done by Google Labs in India.  You can see their other public projects here:

http://labs.google.co.in/

Such as the Indic language on screen keyboard:

http://labs.google.co.in/indic.html

And you can discuss these and other ideas you have on the Google Labs India discussion board:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-India-Labs

How long does the movie last?

The movie lasts for 3 hours.

What time is the movie over?

The movie is over at 10:30 PM.

 

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http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/is/courses.asp

Fall 2007

Elementary Hindi

• Course number: ILAS 1597
• Section number: 14679
• Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Intermediate Hindi

• Course number: ILAS 2398
• Section number: 09619
• Monday and Wednesday, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

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