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HINDI

READING BOOKLET

PIMSLEUR

SIMON & SCHUSTERS


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Graphic Design: Maia Kennedy

andRecorded Program 2006 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Reading Booklet 2006 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Pimsleuris an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio,

a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Mfg. in USA.

All rights reserved.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

HINDI

VOICES

English-Speaking Instructor ...................Ray Brown

Hindi-Speaking Instructor .................. Vivek Mathur

Female Hindi Speaker ............................Dolly Raja

Male Hindi Speaker ............................Bharat Singh

COURSEWRITERS

Dr. Jilani Warsi Christopher J. Gainty

EDITORS

Elizabeth Horber Beverly D. Heinle

REVIEWERS

Anoop Bhargava Dilnavaz Bamboat

EXECUTIVEPRODUCER

Beverly D. Heinle

PRODUCER& DIRECTOR

Sarah H. McInnis

RECORDINGENGINEERS

Peter S. Turpin Kelly Saux

Simon & Schuster Studios, Concord, MA

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Reading Lessons

Introduction ........................................................ 1

Devanagari Alphabet .......................................... 5

Lesson One ......................................................... 9

Lesson Two ........................................................ 10Lesson Three ...................................................... 11

Lesson Four ........................................................ 12

Lesson Five ........................................................ 13

Lesson Six .......................................................... 14

Lesson Seven ...................................................... 15Lesson Eight ....................................................... 16

Lesson Nine ....................................................... 17

Lesson Ten ......................................................... 18

Lesson Eleven .................................................... 19

Lesson Twelve .................................................... 20

Lesson Thirteen .................................................. 21Lesson Fourteen ................................................. 22

Lesson Fifteen .................................................... 23

Lesson Sixteen ................................................... 24

Lesson Seventeen ............................................... 25

Lesson Eighteen ................................................. 26Lesson Nineteen ................................................. 27

Lesson Twenty ................................................... 28

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HINDI

Introduction

Hindi is one of 23 official languages of India, and

is reported to be the second most commonly spoken

language in the world. (Only Mandarin Chinese has

a greater number of speakers.) Approximately 500

million people around the world speak a dialect ofHindi, and an even greater number have at least some

familiarity with it. Indias popular Bollywood films

have served to expose viewers in many parts of the

world to the sounds of Hindi.

However, included in those 500 million arespeakers of the many regional dialects of the language,

which are often quite different. Hindustani is the term

used to describe this closely related series of languages

or dialects, including Hindi and Urdu. In this course,

we teach Standard Hindi as spoken in New Delhi.While elsewhere in India other dialects are more

prevalent, the New Delhi dialect will be understood

by most people you will meet. And while there are 23

official languages, only Hindi and English are official

government languages of communication.The Hindi language actually shares some roots

with English, as both are considered descendants

of the Indo-European parent language spoken in

Central Asia approximately seven thousand years


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Introduction (continued)

ago. However, while English has its linguistic roots

in the West Germanic language family, Hindi is a

descendant of the classical Sanskrit of Central Asia

and belongs to the Indo-Iranian family. Today, most

Indians are multi-lingual, speaking Hindi, English(one of the main dialects of English, called Indian

English), and one or more regional dialects.

Hindi is a close relative of the Urdu language

spoken in Pakistan, and speakers of the two languages

can often understand one another, at least to someextent. Both languages are descendants of the collo-

quial Hindustani spoken in northern India in the ninth

and tenth centuries. (The name Hindi is of Persian

origin, and was first used by Persian-speaking Turks

who established the Delhi Sultanate in the eleventhcentury A.D.) That said, the marked cultural differ-

ences between India and Pakistan have caused the

Hindi and Urdu languages to develop along somewhat

different lines, so that they are no longer entirely

mutually comprehensible. Though extremely similar,the two are now considered separate languages. Urdu

is written in a Persian-Arabic script, while Hindi is

written in the Devanagari script.


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The written system of Hindi, known as

Devanagari, dates back to approximately the 11th

century A.D. There are also other languages,

such as Sanskrit, Marathi, and Nepali, which use

the Devanagari script. A noticeable feature ofDevanagari is the top horizontal line which is formed

when letters are combined. Hindi is read from left

to right and written with spaces between words.

However, the letters which make up a word often

combine and when the letters join together theysometimes change form. In Hindi there is a definite

correspondence between spelling and pronun-

ciation. There are a total of 11-14 vowels and

33 - 36 consonants, depending on the chart used.

There are no capital letters, but Hindi vowels

have a different appearance when they appear

independently or following another vowel than

they do when they appear in a word following a

consonant. In a word following a consonant, they

change to what is known as a maatraa form. As a

maatraa,a vowel can be placed before, after, above, orbelow a consonant. Devanagari also includes several

diacritical marks, the chandrabinduand bindu, which

nasalize the vowels.


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Since Hindi is written using the Devanagari

alphabet, you will need to learn to associate the

sounds with what is probably a new system of

symbols. A listing of the Devanagari alphabet can be

found beginning on page 5. This is for your referenceonly; you will not need the list to learn to read Hindi,

since all of the instruction is on the audio.


For more information, call

1-800-831-5497 or visit us

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Devanagari Alphabet Vowels

Transliteration Sound *Maatraa Letter

None aas in about a o aas infather aa

o ias in sit i o eeas in seem ee o uas input u o ooas inpool oo

o aas in late ei o aas in glad ae o oas in go ou

o

awas in saw au

None

rias in grip

This vowel occurs only in

words that are borrowed

from Sanskrit and is rarely

.used in Hindi

ri

Diacritical Marks

chandrabindu nasalizes vowels obindu nasalizes vowels o

*The circle represents a consonant and shows therelative position of the maatraato the consonant.


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Devanagari Alphabet Consonants

Transliteration Sound Letter

within a word or at the end of aword like the kin skit; sometimesin the beginning of words the gasin gold

k

breathy-kas in look-here kh gas in gate g breathy-gas indog-house gh ngas in swing n

chas in check ch breathy-chas in catch-him Chch jas inJune j breathy-jas in dodge-him jh

This sound does not exist inEnglish; most like then in unjust

combination of t andd as intrain /drain T

breathy-tas in ant-hill Th

das in date D

This sound does not exist inEnglish; most like an rfollowed bya quick d

Ra

breathy-dwith a very noticablebreath at the end Dh

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Devanagari Alphabet Consonants (continued)

breathy-Ra Rha

This sound does not exist inEnglish; most like thenin end N

soft tas in at,or at-the ta breathy-ta tha das in breadth da

breathy-da dha

nas in nameor anthem na p as inpun pa breathy-pas in top-hat pha bas in bun ba

breathy-bas in clubhouse bha mas in mug ma yas inyoung ya ras in serene ra

las in lunch la between an English vand w va shas in shell sh shas in German Schneider Sh

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Devanagari Alphabet Consonants (continued)


sas in sun Sa

has in head Ha

Borrowed Sounds Consonants


(ctas in section(Sanskrit ksha

(tr as intrishna (Sanskrit tra

(g-y combination (Sanskrit gy

. (k (Arabic qa

. (ch as inloch (Persian khha

. (g (Persian ghha

(zas inzone (English z

. (f as infin(English f

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Lesson Two

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Lesson Twelve

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Lesson Fifteen

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