Hindi 1: Lesson 1a http://curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=798003

Today’s Program

• 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?

1. World Languages 2. Indo-European Languages 3. Indian Languages 4.

India’s 22 scheduled languages 5. Hindi: Dialects 6. Hindi: timeline 7. 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?

• 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

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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.

अ ए क प य a e ka च ca ट

ṭ

a त ta pa ya Hindi (Devanagari) Characters आ

ā

ऐ ai ख फ र kha pha ra इ i ओ o ग ब ल ga छ cha ठ

ṭ

ha थ tha ज ja ड

ḍ

a द da ba la ई

ī

औ au घ gha झ jha ढ

ḍ

ha ध dha भ bha व va उ u अं a

ṃ

ङ

ṅ

a ञ ña ण

ṇ

a न na म ma ऊ

ū

अः a

ḥ

ऋ

ṛ

Dialogue 1a

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Listening

: the teacher will act out the first dialogue 1a and lead students through speaking the dialogue as a group.

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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.

• 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

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Activity:

walk around greeting each other: • Then asking: • Then replying: (5 mins)