Ukindia Learn to Read Hindi


Lesson 1


Hindi is spoken exactly as it is written so being a phonetic language it is very easy to learn to read . Write to let us know how you like these lessons and any other suggestions to ukindia.

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Letters S, N , M , K and R This is the Hindi letter S as in Surf

and this is the letter N as in NuN.

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If we join them together we get the word , can you guess what it might be ?

Yes it is Sun !!


Lets look at more letters.
This is the letter K as in stucK-note all Hindi letters have a line on top and only the short sound is pronounced ..
The next two letters are M and N.

M as in MuM


N as in NuN


To make a word we just join the letters together again so that the top line becomes continuous for eg mn (mind)
Now look at these four letters again

S


K


M


N

Sit back visualise these in your mind and say them aloud.
.....S ,...........K , ............M. , ......and .........N
Now for a real tough test to see if you can read your first word in Hindi
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(nmk--pronounced as namuk -salt)
If you got it right -well done . Award yourself a brownie point. Now learn another letter making the R sound as in Rum.
Lets read another word - to do - kr - .
Remember the five letters we have learnt

S

K

...

M

..

N

.. and

R

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Visualise all five again

...S, .........K , ............M. , ...........N ....and R....


Whats this word -die - .. yes it mr (murr) .

and this one ?

.....rm (Rum) and this is ....rn (Run)


Now see if you can read your first sentence in Hindi

...nmk km kr (namak kam kar) --- salt less do i.e. make it less salty!


Well done.

As a test see if you can match the follwoing words Sir , Run , Rum , Rusk , Musk ,. 1 point for each correct answer.

Answers Rusk .... Run... Sir .... Musk ... Rum


Many readers have pointed out that in the words in this lesson eg Sun the letter S is only half pronounced and should be written in its half form

That is true and we will introduce half letters in a future lesson. In the meantime for the time being just revise the above lesson as it is written. You have come to the end of Lesson 1 . Go over it again and again .Next week we introduce the vowels in Lesson 2.............Home Page.....................LAST PAGE