http://www.ispeakhindi.com Learn Hindi Daily through a podcast. Sat, 17 May 2008 01:49:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Line2: नहर पर चल। कमल इधर रख। नहर पर टहल। नहर पर चल (nahar par chal) = Let's go to the stream. कमल इधर रख (kamal idhar rakh) = Keep the lotus here. नहर पर टहल (nahar par tahal) = walk to the stream. --- नहर (nahar) - stream पर (par) - to चल (chal) - go ... http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/16/reading-2-and-3-letter-words-passage-2-part-1-2/ Today we are going to start reading a passage that has 2 and 3 letter words. Line1: मटर चख।  बतख पकड़।  नकल मत कर। मटर चख (matar chakh) - taste the peas बतख पकड (batakh pakard) - catch the duck नकल मत कर (nakal mat kar) - Do not copy. --- मटर (matar) - peas चख (chakh) ... http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/15/reading-2-and-3-letter-words-passage-2-part-1/ The present tense of the word "to be" in Hindi does not change based upon the gender of the subject, but the past tense of "to be", i.e. "was" does.  Today we are going to cover the past tense of "to be". Nathan said (being male) "I was in India." in ... http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/14/was-the-past-tense-of-to-be/ जनवरी (janvari) - January फरवरी (farvari) - February मार्च (marc) - March अप्रैल (aprail) - April मई (mai) - May जून (jun) - June जुलाई (julai) - July अगस्त (agast) - August सितम्बर (sitambar) - September अक्तूबर (aktubar) - October नवम्बर (navambar) - November दिसम्बर (disambar) - December flashcards - Months of the Year flashcards - Months of the year - with pronounciations I ... http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/13/months-of-the-year-2/ At the beginning of each session, I want to start giving you the date in Hindi.  This will be a good chance to learn the day of the week, the numbers from 1-31 and the month in Hindi.  We have covered this before, but I thought it would be good ... http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/12/days-of-the-week-2/ Line 4:  चल बस पर चढ़।  मठ पर चल कर यज्ञ कर। जल भर कर खत पढ़। http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/11/learning-to-read-2-letter-words-part-4/ We continue with the reading exercise with only two letter words.  Today we study the third line: Line 3: छत पर मत चढ़। रथ पर मत चढ़। Let us look at each sentence. (devanagari) = (Romanized transliteration) = (translation) छत पर मत चढ़।  = chhat par mat chard = Don't climb on the roof. रथ ... http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/10/learning-to-read-2-letter-words-part-3/ We continue with the reading exercise with only two letter words.  Today we study the second line: Line 2: ऊन रख।  हठ नत कर। तन ढक कर। Let us look at each sentence. (devanagari) = (Romanized transliteration) = (translation) ऊन रख = oon rakh = keep the wool हठ मत कर = hath mat kar ... http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/09/learning-to-read-2-letter-words-part-2/ We are going to continue trying to read 2 letter words in another passage. Line 1:  हल रख।  लड़ मत। ईश भज। Let us break down each sentence. (devanagari) = (Romanized transliteration) = (translation) हल रख =  hal rakh = keep the plow (or plough if you are British) लड़ मत = lard mat = ... http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/08/learning-to-read-2-letter-words-part-1/ Today we are completing the reading sample that can be found on our wiki. line 11: इस बस पर चढ़ कर घर चल। is bus pur churd kur ghur chal line 12: खट खट मत कर। kut kut mut kur Vocabulary: इस (is) - this बस (bus) - bus पर (pur) - on चढ़ कर (churd kur) - climb घर ... http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/05/07/learn-to-read-hindi-two-letter-words-part-7-of-7/