Sentences taken from the New York University Virtual
Hindi course to practice reading Devanagari script,
Hindi or Itrans.
Instructions
- To view this page as intended, your browser needs to support ECMAScript (Opera, Konqueror or Mozilla will do fine). In fact any graphical
browser which is W3C-compliant should
work.
- Look at a sentence first and try to read it.
- Move your mouse pointer over the sentence and watch the
English translation, I have provided two translations: a word for
word translation and a translation in natural English.
- Look in your status bar for the "modified" Itrans-for-Hindi-version of the
sentence,
the only modifications I made to real Itrans-for-Hindi are the brackets to
show
vowels which should not be pronounced.
- If you click on the phrase a little window will pop-up with extra
information concerning the vocabulary and grammar of the sentence.
- Click on the speaker icon to hear the sentence spoken.
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Thanks to
Avinash Chopde for developing Itrans, the people from the
Hindi yahoogroups, especially Amber, Vinay and Muurtikaar.
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