Definite and Indefinite Articles If you can’t quite remember which are the articles in English, read this little refresher before preceding with Hindi and Amharic articles. Definite and Indefinite Articles in Hindi While on the subject of definite and indefinite articles, it should be addressed that the Hindi language does not have articles like the [...]
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Definite and Indefinite Articles in Hindi and Amharic
Posted in Amharic, Hindi, tagged definite and indefinite articles on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Devanagari Independent Vowels
Posted in Hindi, tagged Hindi script, Learning Hindi, typing Hindi on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So we touched briefly on the basic history of Devanagari and how the script works. Now let’s get down to looking at some of the actual letters, their pronunciation and how to type them. Independent Vowel Characters and their Pronunciation: अ – a as in about आ – ā as in father इ – i [...]
History of the Devanagari Script and Its Basics
Posted in Hindi, tagged Hindi script on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
History While Hindi and Urdu are very similar in grammatical structure, the languages from which much of their vocabulary draws from differs (Sanskrit for Hindi and Persian/Arabic for Urdu). However, the most noticeable difference comes when viewing the writing where Urdu has a distinctly Arabic look and Hindi has the Devanagari script. Devanagari, ‘script of [...]
Boy, Girl, Man and Woman in Hindi
Posted in Hindi, tagged Hindi Vocabulary on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now that we can see the Hindi script, we can start looking at some simple nouns so that we can practice talking about people. To start with we’ll talk about a boy, a girl, a man and a woman. Below are these four words typed out along with pronunciation and how they are spelled and [...]
Viewing Hindi on Your Computer
Posted in Hindi, tagged Hindi script on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are a lot of programs, both for purchase and available as freeware, that are supposed to allow you to type Hindi script. However, before you go downloading a bunch of programs, you should know that at least on Windows (and I’m assuming other operating systems as well) you do not need a program to [...]
Learning Hindi Script
Posted in Hindi, Language Learning Resources, tagged Hindi script, Learning Hindi on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For an English speaker, or a speaker of any other Latin character based alphabet, the most immediately apparent barrier to Hindi is of course the fact that it is not based off of those familiar Latin characters. The Hindi script is called Devanagari and it is one of the many things that attracts me to [...]
Where to Learn Hindi Online
Posted in Hindi, Language Learning Resources on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A well written language book is of course going to contain the largest wealth of information on any language – outside of directly interacting with speakers of the language of course. But what if you are learning a language and do not have access to a library or your library does not have books on [...]
