Learn how to introduce yourself
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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 will be surprised at how far a little Hindi will go. |
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Lesson focus |
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| Survival Phrases lesson 52 |
| Introducing yourself in Hindi |
| Whatever the reason for travelling to India, you won't leave the country without having met people. Therefore, it's necessary to learn how to introduce yourself and how to respond to people introducing themselves. |
| As you know, there are formal and informal levels in conversation. Let's cover the formal version first. |
| In Hindi, "How do you do?" is Aap kaise hai? |
| Aap kaise hai? |
| Let's break it down by syllable and hear it one more time: Aap kaise hai? |
| Aap kaise hai? |
| The first word, aap, means "you" in the formal version. Next, kaise means "how." |
| kaise. |
| kaise. |
| Then we have hai, which in English translates to "is" or "are". |
| All together, we have Aap kaise hai? This means, "How do you do?" |
| After Aap kaise hai, we will cover "My name is...," and we will use my name this time. Therefore, "My name is Manasee" is Mera nam Manasee hai. |
| Let's break it down by syllable: Mera nam Manasee hai. |
| Now, let's hear it once again: Mera nam Manasee hai. |
| The first word mera means, "my." And we follow it with nam, which in English is "name." |
| nam |
| nam |
| To recap here, we have mera nam, which means "my name." Then we have the name, which in this case is Manasee. And next is hai, meaning "is." |
| All together, we have Mera nam Manasee hai, which literally means, "My name is Manasee." |
| After that, we will cover "Nice to meet you," which in Hindi is Aapse milkar achcha laga. |
| Aapse milkar achcha laga |
| Let's break it down and hear it one more time: Aapse milkar achcha laga |
| Aapse milkar achcha laga |
| The first word, aapse, means "you," and is formal. Next is milkar, which in English is "to meet." |
| And then is achcha, which means, "pleasure." |
| Let us see it one more time: achcha |
| achcha. |
| And then, we have laga, which in English is "to feel." |
| So, altogether, achcha laga means "feel nice." |
| So, we have here, Aapse milkar achcha laga, which means "Nice to meet you." |
| So here, we have Aapse milkar achcha laga, which means "Nice to meet you." |
| Let's look over the informal level now. It's very straightforward because you need to change just a few things. |
| Aap kaise hai, or "How do you do?" becomes Ti kanis. Since you are now using the second person singular in place of the third person plural of the formal level, the second part doesn't change at all. In fact, we also use here Mera nam Manasee hai in the informal level, meaning "My name is Manasee." |
| In place of Aapse milkar achcha laga, in the informal level, instead we have Tumse milkar achchaa lagaa. This is very simple and useful. |
| Tumse milkar achchaa lagaa |
| Tumse milkar achchaa lagaa |
Outro |
| Okay, to close out today's lesson, we'd like for you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you're responsible for saying it aloud. You'll have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so गुड लक! (guud Lak!), which means "good luck" in Hindi. |
| "How do you do?" - Aap kaise hai? |
| Aap kaise hai? |
| Aap kaise hai? |
| "How do you do?" (informal) - Tum kaise ho? |
| Tum kaise ho? |
| Tum kaise ho? |
| "My name is Manasee." - Mera nam Manasee hai. |
| Mera nam Manasee hai. |
| Mera nam Manasee hai. |
| "Nice to meet you." - Aapse milkar achcha laga. |
| Aapse milkar achcha laga |
| Aapse milkar achcha laga |
| "Nice to meet you." (informal) - Tumse milkar achchaa lagaa |
| Tumse milkar achchaa lagaa |
| Tumse milkar achchaa lagaa |
| All right. That’s is 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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