Learn Hindi (part 2(a), Phonetics)

[pixusbubblejet]

hello. nice series. btw what is your career? are you in linguistics related job?

[ranjan2]

@pixusbubblejet Nopes, I am an aerospace engineer.

[asha1053]

Please tell me how to access your first video. I like your lessons.

[jdbrown371]

Are Hindi and Sanskrit pronounced the same way? By this I mean if one learns the Devanagari through Hindi and the sounds of Hindi, does one also learn to pronounce Sanskrit correctly?

[ranjan2]

@jdbrown371 Yes, almost 95 % of Hindi-Sanskrit pronunciation are the same, and they both use exactly the same script of course. There are some phonetic exceptions, eg, the syncopation (loss) of the neutral vowel 'a' in the last syllable and inside certain words, but otherwise, both are the same.

[hellokittydimaggio]

Truly, when i learn a language, i skip the phonetics LOL i'll learn by listening to words...ha. true story.........................­.....do you teach russian too?

[kittleboy]

I didn't learn even one word,

there is nothing in this video my friend

I believe, this is useless

hi,hello,goodbye, how are you,.....?! where are these?!

[kittleboy]

we want to learn hindi, not what is phonetic, pleaseeeeeee

don't do like this again

[856956sinewavetones]

Lets assume the following situation...suppose that the only thing we humans all went by was images of our places of articulation instead of writing (which is what i choose by the way). Yet if a person says a sentence while eating food then how can I know were the places of articulation are moving with all that food in the person's mouth? Wouldnt that be hard to find out was he was saying through his places of articulation during the time he was eating food?

[bubbly1996x]

namaste

[janado85]

thanks so much. i love learning languages. and since i like watching bollywood movies, i think it'll be interesting to be able to speak the language

[damianfors]

¿Por qué en el mundo no hablamos la misma lengua ?

Why we can't speak the same lenguage?

The spanish it's one of the most harder lenguages as I know, and I lear this just when I was a kid ¬¬' it's very easy =D of course for me =p but I know that for japanese and gemany is hard to learn spanish, and more hard is the spanish from Mexico =D I Love My Country, n_n I love you Mexico he he he sorry ¬¬'

[Ric9hardify]

Hola, como esta ? Namaste, kia hal he?

I am a gringo, but my wife is Mexican. Spanish for me does not come naturally. Hindi however comes easier to me. It could be because the sounds in Hindi are similar to the sounds you make in English. In Utah we have a large Spanish speaking minority, but lately I've been noticing more people from India. New Indian restaurants have opened up and there is even a Krishna temple in Utah county. Hindi is fun to learn because of the music and cinema. Spanish no.

[quoggermalinka]

why isnt the video available anymore?

i wanna learn hindi...

[scribbleish]

hmm....it's available.... Maybe try again? :)

[sscienceboy]

my dad is Indian and he didn't teach me Hindi, and I know he knows

[steve171274]

Thats a shame really, coz if you don't know a language then you can't really say that that is your home land coz u cant talk with the indiginous people there.

[1050HzSineWaveTone]

one more question, ranjan2. how come people's voices sound diffrent all over the world?

[ranjan2]

Because of the slight differences in structure of vocal cords and areas and volumes of mouth cavity.

[Milola98]

Hello. I was wondering. What does Jai Ho mean? I really want to learn hindi and thanks for your videos!

[pocketsofheaven]

So far this series seems more like a series of lessons on stuff I'm learning in linguistics, rather than learning hindi. :) good job thought. :D

[1050HzSineWaveTone]

so writing systems like Latin Alphabets, and all others in the world today are not the real language...the certian movements of a person's places of articulation such as the teeth, lungs, vocal cords, tounge, etc. inside his/her body is the real language.

yet some cultures like the australian aborignies communicate through sign and body languges

[ranjan2]

Yes true, writing is artificial. How can writing and script be real, when you can write English, French, Russian and even Hindi in the same Latin Alphabet? Writing is merely a tool.

[schrodingersplatte]

"Language is a spoken thing. Writing is artificial." <-- this strikes me as very wise.

[1050HzSineWaveTone]

yes because that's a true fact. archeology history indicates that spoken language, signs, sign languages, and all non-verbal communications came thousands and thousands of years before the world's very first writing system.

[gonzabaez]

Thank you very much, Rajan!  Keep up the good work! You are making a great contribution to your culture. Mari in Mexico

[deeptrancenow]

thank you Ranjan - well done :)

[alxfxmn]

very nice! you did a great job!

[pollykool]

this was very enlighting !!! i am a lot wiser in the science of voice generation. amazing all these years i didn't know about it and I am 52 !! thanks Rajan - you are doing a wonderful job !!!!

Salim (in London)

[Chhayavad]

Ranjan bhai , mai aapki parashansa karati hoon , aapake sachhe prayaton ke liye.

maine kuch saral hindi kavita youtube par rakhi hai. unhe bhi sune. Dhanyavad!

[chamach22]

Arre Bhai Sahib. Phonetics ke sath ye log kya kar sakte hain? Ek Bhasha sikhne ke liye sarale ciz ke sath shuru karna parega. Pronounciation comes with practice you can't teach people phonetics with this as your aim. Linguist to Linguist.

[ranjan2]

Noway!!!!! I am NOT going to teach in some old Victorian style still proudly used in Indian Convent schools. There is no compromise on the fundamentals. For a language which has so distinct phonology you need to learn phonetics first.

[schrodingersplatte]

What would you propose if not phonetics? Memorization of massive wordlists, like the way they used to teach latin?

...I don't think so. What ranjan and pimsleur do seem to work much better.

[kayohem2]

I love Bollywood movies and i have justed watch the movie 'Water' (which I don't think is bollywood) and while i was watching it, immediately fell in love with the soundtrack because of this, I'd now like to learn Hindi.

[baluba0]

I watched this video and I didn't learn anything about hindi! Am I stupid or what?

[kayohem2]

its supposed to be the basics of learning languages, not just hindi.

[chadsexinton]

lol.

[starkissedtulip]

Mr. Ranjan, thank you for giving an explanation about why something is important. It helps to actually know why you are learning something instead of just being told to do it.

[Kittyy23]

Mr. Ranjan, I would greatly appreciate if you can begin teaching the basics of hindi. Also if you can teach basic conversations needed to know while traveling to India. I know very little hindi from admiring bollywood, But I would very well like to converse in hindi as much as I can :)

Thank you very much.

[ranjan2]

Thanks a lot. I am very much in the process of adding more videos to the series which will soon start up with basic conversations. I will also invite vote on a bollywood song whose Hindi lyrics people wish to follow and understand.

[gforceram]

Now thats awesome. bahut achcha, I think thats how you say it.