Tips that help you learn Hindi alphabets quickly

Spoken by over 592 million people across the globe, Hindi is a language that originated from India and is extracted from the ancient language of Sanskrit. Hindi is the fourth most-spoken language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English. Although it isn’t India’s official language, yet it is spoken by about 40% of the entire Indian population. The Modern Standard Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in India. It is an official language in 9 States and 3 Union Territories and an additional official language in 3 other States. Hindi is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India.

Speaking Hindi has a lot of benefits. Apart from being the fourth most spoken language, it is also profitable for a business and anyone who wishes to pursue higher studies in India. The Indian economy is the second-fastest-growing economy in the world after China. It is also handy if you wish to explore the Hindu religion and Indian culture. Learning the alphabets of any language is the most important part of learning that language. Hindi is no stranger to that notion. But learning these alphabets can get a little tricky.

Prepare a Grid or a Planner

Preparing a grid or a planner will make your life extremely easy. It will help you memorize and identify each and every alphabet. While making the grid or planner you can also add their respective English sounds to help identify them better.  You can also add examples of words from that alphabet to memorize better.

Practice writing them

Practising writing the alphabets is the most important step on this list. Once you remember how to write the alphabets, you’re going to have a much easier time while memorizing each of them specifically. Familiarize yourself with the letter shapes and with the way the alphabet is used.

Understand the sounds

Another mode of identification of each alphabet is to memorize their specific sounds. Getting the aspirated and unaspirated consonants right is important. There are, non-aspirated stop, aspirated stop, vocalized, aspirated vocalized and nasal consonants and the vowels have long and short forms. If you combine this step with the first [making a grid or a planner], It will be much easier for you to memorize the alphabets.

Identify similarities and differences

Once you have made a grid, practised writing them understood the specific sounds, it is time to identify the similarities in the alphabets. This step is important in order to avoid mistaking alphabets that might seem similar but have different uses and have many different sounds or seem different while writing. For example, ‘ट’ is verbally pronounced as T and ‘त’ is verbally pronounced as T. They might seem similar but the difference here is that ‘ट’is pronounced with a strong sound with a motion of retroflex. On the other hand, ‘त’ with a much lighter sound and with a dental motion.

Read aloud

Once you’ve diligently followed all of the steps above, the final step is to read them all out loud. This will help you verbally get used to the sounds and understand each of the specific alphabets separately. Practice reading them aloud to get a hang of specific sounds and way of using them.

 

These are the five tips or steps that you can use while learning the Hindi alphabets. Incorporating these tips with your regular learning schedule should greatly aid you in your practice. These should help you master your Hindi alphabets in no time.