I will be using the Hindi alphabet I wrote as an artifact. The Hindi alphabet is divided into three sections: vowels, consonants, and matras.
Knowing the alphabet is the key to knowing the Hindi language. The language is based on phonetics. Each Hindi letter has a sound and these letters/sounds put together create words. The thirty-three consonants have their own unique sounds. These letters can be combined with matras. The matras have their own unique sounds as well. The sounds of matras can be combined with consonants to create variety of sounds. For example, the consonant क can be put together with the matra of उ to create the sound कु. The consonant त combined with the matra of आ creates ता. कु and ता put together form कुता which means dog.
My artifact consist of four sheets of paper. These pages contain thirty-three consonants out together with ten matras. Writing and practicing this helped me accomplish numerous goals. First and foremost, it made me more familiar with the alphabet. Second, it allowed me to put together consonants and matras together to help me form more sounds. Doing so directly affected my ability to read Hindi and talk in the language.
Doing this artifact brought me one step closer to reaching my learning goal for this semester.
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