Learn how to ask "How do you read it?"
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Namaste! Hello and welcome to Hindi Survival Phrases brought to you by HindiPod101.com. This course is designed to equip you with the language skills and knowledge to enable you to get the most out of your visit to India. You'll be surprised at how far a little Hindi will go. |
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Lesson focus |
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| Survival Phrases Lesson 36 |
| Read Hindi Instantly, No Knowledge of Hindi Required |
| In the previous lessons, we introduced you to some phrases you can use when in India. And this is the last lesson of the series we dedicate to learning from people around you. |
| In this lesson, we are going to cover, "How do you read this?" |
| In Hindi, "How do you read this?" is yah kaise paDHTe hain? |
| yah kaise paDHTe hain? |
| Let's break it down by syllable: yah kaise paDHTe hain? |
| Now, let's hear it once again: yah kaise paDHTe hain? |
| The first word, yah, means "this," followed by kaise, which means "how." |
| Let's break down this word and hear it one more time: kaise |
| kaise |
| Next, we have paDHTe, which, in English, literally means "read." The second person form of the verb paDHna, which means "to read," is paDHTe. |
| Finally, here we have hain, which means "is." |
| And altogether, we have Yah kaise paDHTe hain? Literally, this means "How is this read?" |
| If you are pointing at something, probably in a book, a newspaper, or simply a street sign, you might also like to ask, "How do you pronounce this?" or Yah kaise uCHCHaraN karTe hain? |
| Yah kaise uCHCHaraN karTe hain? |
| The word for "this" is yah, and kaise means "how." |
| Next is uCHCHaraN, the verb meaning "to pronounce." karTe hain is, as we already know, "to do." |
| Let's break it down by syllable: Yah kaise uCHCHaraN karTe hain? |
| Let's hear it once again: Yah kaise uCHCHaraN karTe hain? |
| After you have learned the reading and pronunciation, you will probably want to know about the meaning. So why don't you try to ask kya maTlab? |
| kya maTlab? |
| Or "What does it mean?" |
| Let's break it down by syllable: kya maTlab? |
| Here it is once again: kya maTlab? |
| The first word, kya, means "what." |
| Let's hear it one more time: kya |
| Next, we have maTlab, which, in English, means "means." So altogether, we have kya maTlab? Literally, this means "What does it mean?" |
Outro |
| Okay. To close out this lesson, we'd like you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrases, and you're responsible for shouting it out loud. You have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so गुड लक! (guud Lak!), which means "good luck" in Hindi. |
| "How do you read this?" - yah kaise paDHTe hain? |
| yah kaise paDHTe hain? |
| yah kaise paDHTe hain? |
| "How do you pronounce this?" - Yah kaise uCHCHaraN karTe hain? |
| Yah kaise uCHCHaraN karTe hain? |
| Yah kaise uCHCHaraN karTe hain? |
| "What does it mean?" - kya maTlab? |
| kya maTlab? |
| kya maTlab? |
| All right. That’s going to do it for today. Remember to stop by HindiPod101.com and pick up the accompanying PDF. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. |
| फिर मिलेंगे (phir milenge). Goodbye! |
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