ACLHIU102
Elaborations
- building phonic awareness by recognising and experimenting with sounds and focusing on those that are new and initially difficult, for example, त, थ, ग, घ, ट, द, ध।
- learning how the Hindi sound system is conventionally represented in the Devanagari sound system by the use of 13 letters classified as vowels (अ-अः) and 33 consonants (क-ह and ड़-ढ़)
- recognising that a line on the top joins letters to make words in addition to leaving spaces between words बस, घर। अब घर चल।
- recognising the matra form of vowels, such as ि, ी, and distinguishing long and short vowel sounds such as ि, ी
- identifying and practising pronunciation of vowel sounds in conjunction with consonants कइ/कि, कई/की
- understanding the formation of conjunct consonants such as क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ
- imitating discrimination of unaspirated and aspirated sounds such as क-ख, द-ध।
- understanding that Hindi vowels can be pronounced with a nasal quality added to them which is represented by either a (चँद्रबिंदु) or (बिंदु) above the headstroke, for example, हाँ, मैं
- learning how the under-dotted characters क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, फ़ are used to represent loan sounds in Hindi from other languages such as English, Persian, Arabic, Turkish and Portuguese
- understanding conventions by which new loan words are written in Hindi, for example, the way in which English ‘t’ and ‘d’ sounds are represented normally as ट and ड, the replacement of English ‘th’ sounds by थ and the ways in which English vowels such as short ‘a’ sounds are replaced by Hindi vowel sounds such as in डॉलर versus डालर