Now I want you to learn Hindi faster than I ever did. That's my goal.
So right now, I'm gonna take you over the 5 hurdles I had to overcome to learn Hindi.
If you focus on these 5 challenges, you will be learning Hindi and making Indians smile way faster than I ever did.
But first, I've gotta clear up a language learning myth and this is especially appropriate for Hindi.
There is no such thing as "Fluent in 3 months". It's just not possible. You can never be fluent in 3 months. Forget it.
Language learning is a really slow process, especially a language like Hindi where there are so many complexities for an English speaker.
There are not many similarities in English compared to, say, English to German or English to French or English to Dutch...
Any of those European languages..they are a little bit similar and at least you can use the same script.
Hindi has its own script. Hindi has all its own challenges. There is no "Fluent in 3 months". There is only commitment.
And spending long time of years learning Hindi.
Okay, so let's jump into the 5 challenges I faced while learning Hindi.
And unsurprisingly, the first two are pronunciations. Pronunciation is absolutely vital when you are learning any language..like..
what is more important than pronunciation? Than being able to pronounce a word properly.. there is nothing more important and you have to get it right.
Hindi has two issues here for English speakers.
So the first issue is.. Hindi has around 8 letters which kind of all sound the same. So Hindi has 4 Ts.
Listen to these 4 Ts and see if you can hear the difference.
Very difficult, right? These 4 D sounds as well so..
Did you hear the differences. I didn't at the beginning. And this is just because our ears aren't trained to hear these letters.
They are so similar to the English T and D. And it's four of them for us to distinguish between.
Secondly, Hindi has unaspirated and aspirated letters.
And what an aspirated letter is is... it's a puff of air that kind of comes at your mouth when you pronounce a letter.
It's a letter that's really stressed when you pronounce it. So I'll give you an example. There's the unaspirated
and the aspirated
I'll say them back to back now.
Can you hear the difference? That second one is aspirated and you can really..
I can feel a puff of air come out of my mouth when I pronounce second one.
Only a very very little bit of air came out when I pronounced that first one.
And if you don't pronounce these aspirated letters properly, you will be like..
what I did was.. I told someone I wanted a discount but I said that I wanted a **** and they just told me, "Do not say that word!"
Yeah.. that was embarrassing. So you have to learn aspirated and unaspirated pronunciations as well.
Thirdly, Hindi has around 137 letters including conjuncts and what a conjunct letter is is..
when two letters come together and they have a baby and it makes a litter that looks similar to both of them. They come together, right?
So an example of this is Dilli (Delhi).
There's a double L in the middle there. Or the word station. There's a S and T sound at the beginning of that word.
So those are the conjuncts. But the good is you don't have to learn every conjunct. There's only a few which are commonly used.
And the same goes for Hindi numbering. In Hindi, 1 to 100 are all unique words. There's no pattern like 21, 31, 41, 51..
They are all unique. But the good thing is you don't have to learn every single one of those numbers as well. There are tricks to this.
The Hindi language also has genders. Why I don't know.. Genders are such a waste of time.
So for example.. a table is feminine and a bed is masculine.
But there are a number of tricks you can use to guess the gender. You don't have to go memorizing genders. They will just stick in your head.
Hindi also has a completely different word order to English and a lot of times to us when we are learning it seems quite backwards.
English is subject-verb-object. Hindi is subject-object-verb. The verb comes at the end of the sentence.
So in English we say
And so the verb is in the middle there. I am "going". In Hindi, it's at the end. So it will be I am market going am.
Totally backwards for us, right? So you have to learn this sentence structure and think in it actually as well so you can make up Hindi sentences.
Don't let these things overwhelm you. I have let them overwhelm me in the past and they really slowed down my Hindi learning like..
I had to go away and learn how to overcome these hurdles. But the good thing is I'm here to help you overcome them.
And it's all in my new ebook, "Learn Hindi Faster than I Did", available exclusively at karlrock.com
I want you to overcome these hurdles and not go through all the pains that I went through learning Hindi.
In this book, I show you how to overcome those 5 challenges and especially know the pronunciation with diagrams.
And then I teach you how to learn Hindi, the way that I learnt Hindi.. how to learn Hindi effectively.
This book is gonna help you learn Hindi faster than I ever did.
It's like steroids for your Hindi learning except you don't need a prescription and it's totally legal, right? Trust me.
I'm also gonna help you learn Hindi this weekend with a livestream, come get this, a remote village in the middle of nowhere in the desert.. in the desert.
where I'm gonna share my Hindi learning experience and story and I want to answer your Hindi learning questions
So I've pinned a comment below. Put your Hindi learning questions there and I also want you to tell me why you are learning Hindi.
So your question and why you are learning Hindi, right? Did I mention karlrock.com?
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My friend brought one once and we opened it up and half the pages were missing.
They can't even use a photocopy properly. It was just blank pages and some texts and blank pages and text
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