Hindi

Hindi feedback: St. Patrick's Day

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Here's the deal. I'm taking a Hindi class once a week. I've been doing this for about six weeks now. I know a few nouns and adjectives and verbs. My big weakness: creating sentences. It is so much easier to decode a sentence than to create one.

My Hindi teacher gives me an assignment every week. I am supposed to prepare a monologue -- that is, my job is just to talk about me for a while. It sounds easy, but I'm still no good with sentences, so anything beyond subject-object-verb isn't very good.

I'm going to bother you guys for help. I'd like to practice with you so that I can learn to make better sentences. The sentences are simple and stupid, but that's all I know now. Here is a sample:

What do I need help with? Simple: tell me what is wrong with this paragraph. Do not be nice. If it's wrong, please tell me. I like criticism.

Hindi: Fricative Consonants: श, ष, स, ह

The seventh and final group of consonants -- श, ष, स, ह -- is the fricative consonants (Wikipedia Fricative consonants). As an aerospace engineer, fricatives are easy for me to understand. Fricatives are formed by forcing the air from your lungs into a tight channel and causing turbulence in the air flow; it's like placing a model in a wind tunnel.


śa, /ɕ,ʃ/


ṣa, /ʂ/