Learn Hindi (part 3, Sounds of Hindi: Vowels)

[IrisMG]

Perfect. Just what I needed. Thank you!

[mushmax]

Too good..

[LucretiaEv]

I think you've already received many comments about this...

but God in BrE it's the same sound as in pot (short o, NOT long, and lax)

The British English Long O is the one like in ought (very tense, lips very rounded)

The word Share is like ʃeə (BrE) and first of all, e: does not exist as an english vowel... The same with long ASH, because, in fact, ASH is long by default.

[mushmax]

Very comprehensive.

[feedsunj]

Hahahaha ey guy . .

I am learning hindi . . i must admit . . its a nice language .

But 'Very very scientific' ?????

Hahahahaha dood . who are you trying to brainwash ? Americans ?? what makes it scientific ??

Im an Arab (yes an learning hindi i know) . But What makes arabic 'nonscientific' ? You really think hindi is harder than Arabic ??

: )

Keep your science guy . . . .

Ps. Thank you for the video tho . Good job for the world on that behalf .

[AScotInAmerica]

This is great! I am an American and I laughed at how you said God in an American accent. Not because it was wrong - becuase it was correct, but made me feel kind of silly. ;)

However, did I miss when you covered the vowel ai?

[janado85]

it must be tough writing in all these symbols.

[ranjan2]

Well, windows XP has downloadable Hindi typewriter as software, and one can type the English alphabet and get the phonetically corresponding Hindi alphabet.

[drutgat2]

....Similarly, the long 'o' example (sore) is not close to what you are trying to get at. 'Sore' sounds like 'oar'; a more appropriate example would be the 'o' in 'hotel'.

Interesting to note that the short 'i' sound always has a bit of an 'ee' sound at the beginning when Hindi speakers give it as an example; this sound is not present in the English word 'tin' which you give as an example.

Thanks, once again

[ranjan2]

Yes, in standard dialects of English, the /o/ is a diphthong, and it has two vowels. Hindi /o/ is more like the French and German /o/. But the short /i/ is very much like the English, as far as I know.

[drutgat2]

Hi,

Thanks very much for this excellent series. I appreciate all of your effort here.

I would also like to suggest a couple of changes to clarify things for native English speakers such as myself.

I would suggest changing the example of the long 'e' vowel from 'share' to a shorter form of something like 'lay'. 'Share' actually sounds like 'air' and so is not appropriate as an example for this.

[rockmalai]

thanks. it is very helpful

[bahzodee]

thanks you this really cleared up the hindi vowels for me.

[rebelkilla]

finally i understand all the vowels. thanks. one question. under what conditions is "ai" pronounced like "ae" or "e"? i've never heard people pronounced hai like "hae", only "he".

[ranjan2]

Rebelkilla, the Romanized "ai" is pronounced as phonetic [ai] only when it follows a "y" sound, otherwise always [ɛː].

[champachamelee]

Mr Rajan.... I must say you did a wonderful job. I want to thank you for your tutorial material in Hindi Language.

[AKINAacacia]

namaste, thanks you so very muh for your tutorials. learning lots over here ^-^ also, you have a very CUTe accent must I add.

[thephilosopherkartik]

You left out on the ardha chandraakaar, the crescent added on top of an 'aa' to represent the 'o' as in 'hot'.

But anyway, great video nevertheless!

[croutonXetXmuselie]

these are tricky for canadians to learn

[inalaguys]

thank you so mach mr ranjan you r doing a good job god bless you

[multatuli100]

Namaste. Thank you so much for this video! It`s so clear. I am English and in addition to 4 other Western European languages I have been learning to read and write Japanese for about 12 years and Russian for about a year so I have got to grips with both writing systems (Japanese is of course the most difficult) but I have recently become fascinated with the Hindi writing system. Thanks for the clarity and comparison with English. I will do my best to try to learn your beautiful language!

[mizzsims]

Namste,

Thank you. UR a great teacher. I was trying to learn hindi from books, but its so hard when no one explains. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos.I am learning to write a few letters a week. lol

its gonna take a while to know all but i know i'll get there.

Shukria.

[irishdays]

Yeah ranjan... just ignore the ignorant prick!

and greatsneha... I´m sorry If I´m a cause of amusement and gave myself an embarrassing moment but English is not my native language...

And yes... he´s Indian and he´s sweet and gorgeous!

[AlinaAsmaa]

Hello, nice lessons u have here :) I had previously searched for other videos or sites, but ur videos are very clear and easy to understand. Great job!

[irishdays]

I recently met this beautiful gorgeous man... and he´s hindi...

I want to surprise him by learning...

I´m watching every video, taking notes and practicing!!!!

THANKS!!!! Keep it up!!!

(I´m from Tijuana, México)

[greatsneha]

Oh also, he can't "be" Hindi xD That's a language, lol. He is either Hindu or just Indian xP

[guauSarah]

I'm watching all of your videos and taking notes :) Thanks teacher!

[juliecranford]

Thanks!  This is most helpful!

[tutonline]

can I ask you something? If you wanted to use phonetics and the IPA transcription, why are you now using old examples with English sounds?

[ranjan2]

Because most people don't know IPA / phonetics. And the medium is English, so I am using English sounds.

[sundriedt0mat0]

wow you are great.

[vivaharshad]

hindi doesn't have the equivalent of the a in the word fan. The horizonal half crescent on top of the character is present in marathi whch gives the sound of 'a' in fan. The word 'bank', in hindi, is pronounced as 'baiink'!

2 corrections in vowel sounds

Its 'aye' n 'aii'

And 'o' n 'aaoo'

[ranjan2]

No no no, Hindi does have the vowel of "a" as in fan, which is monophthong [ae]. We are learning Standard Western Hindi and you are talking about Sanskrit and Eastern Hindi. Marathi has Marathi phonology, Hindi has Hindi phonology. So it is not [ai] and [ao] in Standard Western Hindi.

[dawood180]

hidi do have vowels like, kill for killing muslims in haiderabad and cheristens in other and tamil in south.

thirsty cop piss drinkers.

[ranjan2]

dawood, I am absolutely sure that you are a retarded asshole. Your comments have nothing to do with the subject of my videos. Fuck off from my videos.

[dawood180]

you have to stop voilating the moral behaviour we need to follow. Whereever hindism comes you pick up guns and strat killing us. you are drunk with hindufobia and stop killin kashmi people and behave to respect I know there are too many urine drinkers comming to US these days but we cannot teach you how to behave with a pakistani. so behave or keep your hole SHUT, bcz it smells like cow (hindu GOD) ass hole.

[greatsneha]

Stop being a hater. It does no good to be mean and say mean things. You just sound and look horrible. In the case of the India and Pakistan debates, neither is completely wrong or right. Grow a brain and realize this.

[ChiaBrain]

What the hell kind of unintelligible crap are you spewing? Shut up and listen to teacher or go sit in time-out!

[ChiaBrain]

sorry, this was meant as a reply to dawood180 post below

[oliho]

Namaste, Ranjan.

Just ignore those rude guys. They duno how to respect others.

I am learning Hindi now, and I found out that your videos are very useful.

I am chinese, from Hong Kong.

[misfitsfiend69]

india is one of the most peaceful countries i've ever seen. the only problem i've seen so far is between both pakistan and india at kashmir and indira ghandi's poor planning with operation bluestar which she personally paid for in the end. so whatever your problem with india is. don't take it out on someone like ranjan who is trying to do something good.

[tutonline]

I think it will also depend on how someone pronounces 'fan', there isn't an actual English standard pronunciation (see US and British English)and probably this could lead to some confusion. I also agree with you on sticking to the standar Hindi pronunciation of ai/au

[wirtual24]

I think it's very helpful video. Śukriya :)

[julnar2021]

dhanyawaad ranjan2Ji:)

[kayohem2]

I'm teaching myself hindi and basic phonetics and your videos are a great help.

[tlcollier2]

I am also teaching myself Hindi(mostly from books). Hearing the sounds pronounced is an immense help! I appreciate your time and effort.

[ruwan77777]

thanks for your video .I like it very much.I,m from sri lanka.

[RunnaChick625]

Ranjan I am so glad I found this video! I'm teaching myself, and I've been looking for a video/audio clip to actually hear the alphabet, it was so hard before just trying to make something make sense off of paper but now I have this resource to guide me. shukriya:)))

[ranjan2]

Thank you for appreciating, Runnachick and razzigirl.

[Roy3802]

Ranjan, i want to ask you, is there any different the letters in Hindi and Sanskrit? I looks same.. how about the pronounciation? same as well?

[ranjan2]

There are minor differences between Sanskrit and Hindi pronunciation. In alphabet, Hindi uses dotted consonants for [f], [z], etc. which are absent in Sanskrit.

[razzigirl]

this is a very good video. thanks. i'm teaching myself hindi and i have difficulty with pronunciation. keep these videos coming.