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Hindi worksheets and exercises about place postpositions

tutonlineit@yahoo.it (Marged) — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:34:00 -0700

Whilst in English and many languages there are prepositions, Hindi has postpositions, that make the preceeding noun oblique. Many Western Hindi learners will find it difficult to switch to this kind of pattern so it is useful to start practiting it as soon as possible. In this lesson we will learn how to use Hindi place postpositions, those postpositions indicating where an object is in relation to another. My worksheet on place postpositions will help you visualize meanings, words and concepts better. For any question, feel free to comment on this post or contact me.

Hindi has two types of postpositions:

Simple place postpositions in Hindi

Compound place postpositions in Hindi

Some other Hindi compound place postpositions are के सामने (in front of, facing), के बाहर (out of), के भीतर (inside), के अंदर (inside), के पास (near)

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How to make the present tense in Hindi

tutonlineit@yahoo.it (Marged) — Mon, 8 Sep 2014 09:55:00 -0700

These are worksheets I made for Hindi students in order to teach the Hindi present tense. All verbs in Hindi come in the infinitive form in the dictionary, if you want to find the verb root you will need to see the infinitive form of the verb and take off the ending (-ना ).

Before learning how to form the present tense of any other verb you will need to learn the present tense of the Hindi verb 'to be' होना, which is irregular so you will need to learn its conjugation by heart. If you need to check the correct pronunciation you can listen to the audio file at the end of each worksheet.

Now that you know the present tense of 'होना', you can learn how to conjugate all other verbs in the present tense. As an example of the Hindi verb I used करना (to make/ to do) as a simple reference. You can select the full screen mode of the worksheet if you need to make it bigger or you can directly download the worksheet for your personal use. If you are a Hindi teacher and wish to use the worksheet as a teaching material you can do it and share or download the file, but please remeber to keep the copyright clear. Thanks.

For all your questions, please leave a comment.

If you wish you can also practice this conjugation here where I have posted another explaination of the Hindi present tense and you can click on the practicing quizzes. Enjoiy!

Flashcards - Hindi numbers 1-10

tutonlineit@yahoo.it (Marged) — Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:00:00 -0700

Hi all,

we have made for you some flashcards with Hindi numbers from 1 to 10, click on the image and you will reach the page. You can select 'study' and check all the numbers clicking on 'continue', later on you can decide to test yourself by clicking on 'study other side first'!

Learn and practice Hindi greetings and basic expressions!

tutonlineit@yahoo.it (Marged) — Sat, 2 May 2009 06:41:00 -0700

Here is a presentation I created for you to learn Hindi greetings and basic expressions. For those who don't want to learn Devanagari there is always a transcription after the Hindi script, where underdotted m stands for nazalisation. You can select the full screen option at the right bottom of the presentation to see the pages better! Enjoy!

Learn Hindi through Bollywood movie songs - Suraj hua maddham (lyrics and translation)

tutonlineit@yahoo.it (Marged) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:21:00 -0700

Hi everyone,

I'm posting a song from the Hindi movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham with transcription and translation. We had a fun online class on edufire about this one today and I'm posting the presentation and the video of the song. People seemed to like the choice and I enjoyed doing this a lot! Hope to see you all for the next classes!!

SūRaj Huā Maddham

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Learn and practice the days of the week in Hindi

tutonlineit@yahoo.it (Marged) — Sat, 1 Nov 2008 07:48:00 -0700

Here is a slideshow with audio comment made by Marged to help you learn and practice the days of the week in Hindi. Click on the tools at the bottom of the presentation to go in full screen mode and play. Enjoy!

Hindi-days of the week

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Learn Hindi through Bollywood movie songs - TAARE ZAMEEN PAR (lyrics and translation)

tutonlineit@yahoo.it (Marged) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:36:00 -0700

नमस्ते !
We're sorry for posting after so much time but we are fixing some issues. I think a very nice way to learn more about a language is through songs. I'm going to post a few popular Hindi songs and translate them for you from now on.

Let's start with a hit from the beautiful movie Tare Zameen Par by Amir Khan, titled माँ

TAARE ZAMEEN PAR Movie Songs LyricsMaa - Taare Zameen Par LyricsHindi Song Title: Maa - Taare Zameen Par : TAARE ZAMEEN PAR Singer(s): SHANKAR MAHADEVAN Cast(s): Aamir Khan , Tanay Chheda , Darsheel Safary , Tisca Chopra

मैं कभी बतलाता नहीं

पर अंधेरे से डरता हूँ मैं, माँ

यूँ तो मैं दिखलाता नहीं

तेरी परवाह करता हूं मैं माँ

तुझे सब है पता है ना माँ

तुझे सब है पता मेरी माँ

भीड़ में यूँ न छोड़ो मुझे

घर लौट के भी आ न पाऊँ माँ

भेज न इतना दूर मुझको तू

याद भी तुझको आ न पाऊँ माँ

क्या इतना बुरा हूँ मैं माँ

क्या इतना बुरा … मेरी माँ

जब भी कभी पापा मुझे

जो ज़ोर से झूला झूलाते हैं मां

मेरी नज़र ढूंढे तुझे

सोचूँ यहीं तू आ के थमेगी माँ

उनसे मैं यह कहता नहीं

पर मैं सहम जाता हूँ माँ

चेहरे पे आने देता नहीं

दिल ही दिल में घबराता हूँ माँ

तुझे सब है पता है ना माँ

तुझे सब है पता मेरी माँ

Translation by hindiboloblog.blogspot.com

I never show it, but I fear darkness, mom

even though I don’t give it away

I care about you, mom

You know it all, don’t you mom?
You know it all...my mom
Don’t leave me like this in the crowd

I won't be even able to come back home, mom

Don’t send me that far

you won't even be able to remember me, mom

Am I so naughty, mom?

Am I so naughty, my mom?

Whenever dad sometimes

swings my swing strongly

my eyes would search for you

I'll think you’ll come here and support me

I don’t tell him,

but I panic, mom,

I don’t let it show on my face

but from the bottom of my heart I am scared

you know it all, don’t you mom?
you know it all, my mom

I hope you liked this song, as you can see, in poetry and songs the language can be used a little more freely and some constructions are sligtly rearranged. Many people will argue that this language has many Urdu borrowings, and this is true, but this is also the language currently used in everyday conversation by Hindi speakers, so this can be regarded as Hindi.

I think that we can also learn some Hindi expressions by looking at these lyrics, for example, in Hindi
I fear darkness is expressed as मैं अंधेरेअंधेरे से डरता हूँसे डरता हूँ

thus, if I want to say that something scares me, I'll have to say that मैं x से डरता हूँ
for example she fears spiders ---> वह वह मकड़ियों से डरती है ।से डरती है
Another expression we see in the song is मैं तेरी परवाह करता हूँ
which means I care for you, so if we want to say that we care for someone in Hindi, we can use the expression परवाह परवाह करना
we care for our family---> हम अपनेहम अपने परिवार की परवाह करते हैं । परिवार की परवाह करते हैं
A very common expression is also तुझसब पतुझे सब है पताहै , you know everything
In Hindi there are a few ways to say I know, the most common one is मपता मुझे पता है ।है
they know who I am---> उनको पताउनको पता है कि मैं कौन हूँ । है कि मैं कौन हूँ

Another typical Hindi expression is याद तुझको आ न पाऊँ
in Hindi किसी को याद आना means to be missed by someone or to be remembered by someone
I'm missing my family a lot ----> (मुझे) मेरा परिवार बहुतमुझे परिवार बहुत याद यादआ रहा है।
This song is also very uselful to notice the use of the personal pronouns in Hindi. The kid refers to his mother in a very intimate way as तू whilst he refers to his father with the third plural person (respectful) as he is scared of him.

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How to and learning tips

tutonlineit@yahoo.it (Marged) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:27:00 -0700

So you have decided you want to learn Hindi, or you have started on your own or with a course or teacher but you got stuck to a point where you feel you are no longer improving. I hope this resource will help you out in all this, because I've been a Hindi student just like you and I know the problems you can face.

First of all we're trying to provide a method which is tailored on an average student's needs, and not necessarily based on the method usually taught at school. We're willing to provide a learning source where you don't necessarily need to know the devanagari script (although I warmly recommend learning it because it makes the difference when it comes to pronuciation and it's fun also) as many of you expressed this desire. We're not willing to use transcription either as this could mislead someone on the correct pronunciation.

Later we will only provide scripts using the standard precise transcription with a reading note for those who may want to avoid the Hindi writing but would also like to have a script as a reminder. Most of the times we will provide exercises based on your listening ability, which is something rarely done from the start. This will help you develop faster a listening comprehension and articulation in the Hindi language making you more focused on the language itself.

Another aspect I'd like to point out is that according to my experience, the perfect recipe for effectively learning any langauge is having a knowledgeable personal guide who can show you the way and help you out, but remember they can never do the job for you... that is to say, the perfect combination is a knowledgeable personal guide who knows how to bring out the best in a single student and a student willing to invest a regular effort. Of course this will have to translate sooner or later in a practical use of the language in its natural environment, but it's not always true that you can only learn a language in the country where it's spoken.

This does not apply to Hindi specifically... Yes, in India most of the people speak English and they will use it with you as soon as they identify you as a foreigner. Even if you will try to use your Hindi, if you are not confident enough or haven't developed a speaking/listening ability, people will start using English as a medium again, even if you don't speak English well either... That is how I have seen many people who had learnt Hindi at school losing everything they had learnt even if they lived in India or went often there. I've noticed that most of the Westerners who learn Hindi at some point of their way, get stuck to the few same old words because they are not encouraged by the fact that knowing Hindi is not necessary to survive...

Keep in mind, anyway, that, on the other hand, speaking Hindi will give you a remarkable advantage, first of all you'll be able to communicate with people on the streets such as vendors, rickshawallahs, etc. who don't usually speak English and you will be considered on a different level compared to the average tourist by those Indians who can communicate in English. Moreover, you will be able to communicate with people also in small non touristic places and have access to a huge amount of interesting material such as literature, music (classical or not), movies (subtitles are useful but annoying and you won't find them in an Indian cinema anyway) and so on...

In fact, another effective way to improve your language knowledge is using interesting material, that is to say, if you like movies (not necessarily Bollywood, but why not it!) watch them in Hindi, I used to watch a scene with subtitles and then without them, or if you like cooking search for recipes in Hindi, and so on.

Listen to some spoken Hindi or read some Hindi each day, even if you don't understand it, this is really helpful believe me. You don't need to read a novel a day or watch two movies a day, a few lines and a 10 minutes recording (a movie scene, a podcast, radio news, etc.) will do a lot. Having a good dictionary also helps a lot (again, if you learn devanagari you will also be able to use this great tool), you can find two fairly good online dictionaries:

http://dict.hinkhoj.com/ this dictionary has a Hindi easy keyboard and gives you examples on how to use a word so it's easier to understand its context

http://www.shabdkosh.com/ this dictionary has an audio of the word and the gender specified which is vital to know in Hindi

These are other Hindi dictionaries you can find online:
http://www.lexilogos.com/english/hindi_dictionary.htm here you have different dictionaries you can choose from, including an online version of the Chaturvedi dictionary

http://hindicube.com/dictionary.aspx

You can start and use them once you'll get a good grasp of devanagari. If you want to go ahead and purchase a good one, my suggestion is getting the Oxford Hindi-English dictionary or the Chaturvedi/Tiwari (the one I personally use most), anyway there are some options even for those who don't want to learn devanagari and need transcription.