Learning Hindi

The first step of any language is to learn its alphabet. We all started from A for Apple, B for Bat and C for Cat. The following table of content provides a list of all lessons on Hindi alphabet Hindi is written in Devanagari script. On a paper, it is written from left to right just like English. There are 12 vowels and 36 consonants in Hindi. Fear not, all have equivalent English pronunciations. Unlike Germans and Russians, who have pronunciation signs as well? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vowels: अ to ऊ: “ अ ” is a short vowel. It is pronounced like first A in America or U in utter or A in Afghanistan. 2. Hindi alphabets:  आ “ आ ” is a long vowel. It has the sound of “I” in  Ice or the sound of AA in grAAs. “ आ ” is made by drawing a straight line next to अ. This line is called “maatraa” in Hindi. 3. Hindi alphabets:  इ “ इ ” is a short vowel. It is pronoun...

what is Hindi? Well it’s one of the widest spoken languages in the world with around 500 million speakers. In fact that’s only outnumbered only by Mandarin Chinese, English and Spanish! It is mainly spoken in and around the areas of northern India but, of course, it is spoken by communities all over the world. Hindi is also a very powerful language in terms of global politics, with India being one the fastest growing economies in the world. It is also the main language of  Bollywood , the billion dollar film industry. Hindi is a member of what language experts call the Indo-European language family. You may be surprised to know English is a member of this family too! This doesn’t mean they’re that similar though. Hindi has evolved from a language called Sanskrit, much in the same way languages like Spanish and French evolved from Latin. Hindi is very closely related to the language of Pakistan, Urdu. They’re so close in fact that some linguist say they  are ...