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exscribere
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Message 17 of 18

19 June 2011 at 5:11am | IP Logged

Jeffers wrote:

exscribere wrote:

Soldiering away with Anki flashcards. Debating on being an incredible
masochist and creating a flashcard for every biconsonantal conjunct. Since, if memory serves, there are over
1000 of them... I'm probably going to start with the most-used 100 and add from there, in the event I decide I'm
having recognition issues. It's daunting, to say the least, but after putting in a run of the consonants + a single
run of the vowel diacritics, I can look at The Little Prince and recognize what vowels are where.

I just looked over this again, and I have to ask: why do you need to learn the conjuncts separately? Most of them
simply lose the stem from the first consonant. There are a few exceptions of course, but they aren't hard to
learn. In fact, reading Hindi was the easiest part for me to learn.

I can also touch type in Hindi, but that's a different story!

I didn't need to--but I chose to, because things are different, and certain aspects seemed daunting. A year later,
and after being here for 8 months, reading isn't an issue, I can speak decently if not fluently, and I'm getting in
my daily practise with the real people.

I've also learned to touch type in Hindi. It's all simply experience.
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Message 18 of 18

19 June 2011 at 7:12pm | IP Logged

The only problem with typing in Hindi... my Hindi handwriting has gone to seed. Same with English though.
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