Hindi 1: Lesson 1a
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Today’s Program
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What languages do we know?
What is Hindi
What is in this Hindi subject?
Meeting and Greeting
First Character
First Dialogue
Greetings, How are you?
How many languages?
• divide into groups of four of five and find
out how many languages you know, then
appoint a spokesperson.
• One group after another will each tell the
teacher how many languages your group
knows and the teacher will write them on
the board.
• We will build up a list on the board of all
the languages we know in the class.
What is Hindi?
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World Languages
Indo-European Languages
Indian Languages
India’s 22 scheduled languages
Hindi: Dialects
Hindi: timeline
Hindi: official status
World Languages
Indo-European Languages
Indian Languages
22 scheduled Indian languages
Hindi Dialects
Hindi timeline
• ca. 1000, earliest Hindi attested
• ca. 1200, first Hindi works,
(Prithvi raj raso & Amir Khusrau’s songs)
• ca. 1500, popular Hindi literature,
(Kabir’s sayings, Surdas’s songs)
• ca. 1600, Hindi epic literature
(Tulsidas’s Ramcaritmanas)
• ca. 1800, early modern Hindi
(Lallu Lal’s Baital Pacchisi)
• ca. 1900, modern standard Hindi
(Premchand’s stories and novels)
Hindi: official status
What is in the module?
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Overview of the unit contents
What is in the LMS?
What is in the textbook?
Note you need to print the subject guide,
and other materials provided in soft copy
• Note that regular study is essential,
languages need constant study, and even
a brief holt in your studies will set you back
a lot longer than the break.
Meeting and Greeting
• Activity: walk around the room asking
each other what your names are and then
telling each other what your names are
First Character
• Look at the list on the (next) screen of
Hindi characters and their English sounds.
• Pick one that matches the first sound in
your name. For instance for ‘Peter’ I would
pick ‘pa’
• Try and write the character out, we will
show how to write some on the board and
circulate and help you write your
character.
Hindi (Devanagari) Characters
अa आā
इi ईī
एe
ऐ ai ओ o औ au
क ka ख kha ग ga घ gha
झ
च ca छ cha ज ja jha
ट ṭa ठ ṭha ड ḍa ढ ḍha
त ta थ tha द da ध dha
भ
प pa फ pha ब ba bha
उu ऊū ऋṛ
अं aṃ अः aḥ
ङ ṅa
ञ ña
ण ṇa
न na
म ma
Dialogue 1a
• Listening: the teacher will act out the first
dialogue 1a and lead students through
speaking the dialogue as a group.
• Practice: try out the dialogue as groups of
three in the class.
• Presentation: the teacher will call on some
of the groups to present their version of
the dialogue.
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we will talk about greetings and
levels of address, different ways of saying you
and asking questions like this:
• we will also talk about greetings and when
to use these greetings
Greetings
• Activity: walk around greeting each other:
• Then asking:
• Then replying:
(5 mins)