Practicing the Letter र (ra)

We're still not quite ready to put the letters together. Let's just practice the letter र ra.

• रANDY रEALLY LIKE TO रEAD AND रITE HINDI. ☑ Answer
• रON TOरE HIS रAINCOAT ON THE TरAIN. ☑ Answer
• WILL YOU रUN TO THE रAILरOAD TरACKS NEAर THIS रOAD? ☑ Answer

In these first few lessons, we're bending the English equivalents of the Devanagari र (ra). You could say Randy and really in your best Indian accent (like you've seen in the movies), and you would come close to the sound of र (ra). But the r sound in tore and near is really not the correct sound of र (ra). They don't have that tapping sound that र (ra) represents.

I include these not-exactly-correct transliterations because the most important thing for you to learn right now is that र (ra) represents the r sound. You can work on your pronunciation later. For now, I want you to look at र think, ra.

You know by now that र (ra) replaces the wr in write because both of these letters together stand for the r sound.