Hindi 1: Lesson 1a

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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

• 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 a आ ā इ i ई ī उ u ऊ ū ऋ ṛ

ए e ऐ ai ओ o औ auअ aṃ

अ� aḥ  

क ka ख kha ग ga घ gha ङ ṅa    च ca छ cha ज ja झ jha ञ ña    ट ṭa ठ ṭha ड ḍa ढ ḍha ण ṇa    

त ta थ tha द daध dha न na    

प pa फ pha ब baभ bha म ma    

य ya र ra ल la व va      श śa ष ṣa स sa  ह ha      

Hindi (Devanagari) Characters

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.

• 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)