Devanagari Lesson 2 Review

In this lesson you learned your first Devanagari letters. You also learned some more rules that govern how the letters create words in Hindi.

• क makes the ka sound.
• य makes the ya sound.
• र makes the ra sound.
• म makes the ma sound.
• Although each Devanagari letter forms a syllable of a word, the last letter is usually pronounced without the a sound.

Now that we've reviewed the what we've covered, let's read a (very) short dialogue (with characters from Snell). When pronouncing the Hindi names, don't forget the rules for Devanagari sounds using English letters we've chosen.

• Rām: HELLO, UमĀ. ☑ Answer
• Umā: HELLO, रĀम. HOW AरE यOU? ☑ Answer
• Rām: I Aम FINE, UमĀ. WHAT AरE यOU DOING? ☑ Answer
• Umā: I Aम मAकING A रESUमÉ. ☑ Answer

Note that the names may not have the same spelling you're used to. You may have seen the name Rām spelled Ram or even Raam. That's because, as we discussed earlier, there is no single correct representation of Hindi sounds. Here I've used the same rules for representation that I use throughout this tutorial for consistency and to remove ambiguity. Just be aware that, if you have a friend named Rām or Umā, they may spell their name differently in English than what you see here.