Language Partner Meeting #2
Goal for the semester: My goal for this semester is achieve the “elementary” level of Hindi, i.e. read, write, and speak.
Week: 9/17/12 – 9/23/12
Date: September 22, 2012
Goal for the day: Get familiar with the Hindi alphabets and use them to learn days of the week and numbers
My meeting with Sanya started with writing and pronouncing the Hindi alphabet. We orally went over the vowels, consonants and matras multiple times. This form of repetition helped me get comfortable with pronunciation of letters and it also helped me remember the letters. As we continued on with this for about fifteen minutes, Sanya helped me put vowels and consonants with matras in order to form proper words.
Doing so directly led us to Hindi vocabulary. Hindi language is based on phonetics. Sanya recited numerous words for me, to evaluate if I could recall Hindi. I was surprised at how much I remembered. After we established this, I started spelling the basic words in Hindi. I spelled nineteen words.
After this we moved on to days of the week. First Sanya introduced me to the words and I found them closely related with Gujarati. I tired spelling these words on my own and I succeeded with the exception of a few words.
Then we moved on to numbers. The numbers in Hindi are written differently than the English numbers. I learned how to write them first followed by spelling them.
Overall, I really enjoyed this session. I was able to focus on the alphabet and yet simultaneously learn days of the week and the Hindi numbers.
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