Learn Hindi (part 4(b), Sounds of Hindi: Consonants II)

This is the fourth part of my video series on learning Hindi. This sub-part (b) has the consonants of Hindi from dentals to dotted consonants, including the writing system (devanagari script). It concludes part 4 (a). Please watch the entire parts 2a to 2d on phonetics before this part. My use of images from Internet is intended to be consistent with US Fair Use laws.

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• Hindi
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• aspirated
• murmured

[NotPotable]

Why is there a cat crying in the background of this?

[ranjan2]

@NotPotable There might be a cat. At that time, the landlord at my place had two cats Tiger and Stella.

[skoroma]

I'm a bit confused. If hindi doesn't have alveolar consonants [t] and [d] like you said in 0:55, then what were the [t] and [d] consonants we learned in 4a?

[ranjan2]

One set was dental consonants, ie dental [t] and [d], and one set was retroflex consonants.

[beadvx]

Thank you so much for this video, it's been REALLY helpful, you are amazing!

[vaguelyhumanoid]

It's really hard for an English speaker to do the aspirated consonants right... this'll take some practice.

[NotPotable]

@ranjan2 Ahkay, thank you! It was distracting, I kept wondering why a cat was upset.

Thank you for these videos, by the way - I'm interested in Hindi but I have not found anyone to tutor me yet.

[nutherefurlong]

Whew. Hard to manage those consonants :)

[peachysnapples]

Great video :)

Can you explain a bit further though the difference between the two consonants that represent the "sh" sound at 5:36? They both sound the same!

[skoroma]

Thank you! are the retroflex versions used often?