Oh man. This is soo stressful. We are trying to make Jispa study her hindi. To teach first standard hindi we require Jasmine and me together. With jasmine teaching her the basic stuff that even I find difficult to understand. In the book there are words that have two alphabets. I don’t know the meaning of so many of them. Some of them even jasmine does not know the meaning. We were wondering what on earth they are. Words such as kharal, thanak, khag, phalak etc.
So while Jasmine is teaching Jispa, I am on the internet logging into a shabkosh. Hehe. A hindi into english dictionary. Man this shit is really tough. I would have never known these meanings. And instantly as I teach them, I forget them as they come. Some of them like dapat, even the online shabdkhosh does not have. यह शब्द (दपत) अभी हमारे डाटाबेस मे नही है.
On some words I thought I knew the meaning but Jasmine had to correct me. At some time I have decided I will merely let her learn this shit by rote. I have no clue on helping her. I might have failed her first standard hindi test. so now I am merely just taking her hindi reading. If she asks me for any meaning I am going to smash her to the ground.
hey there,
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of the time when my mother started crying while teaching me Hindi alphabets. We had just returned from Zambia, I could barely speak hindi, and my mum was worried I would fail. Anyway she started crying because I just wouldn't learn.
Just buy a lot of books in Hindi and leave them around. If she likes reading she will pick them up, and start reading. And learning words by association is better. In no time, she will be teaching you Hindi.
Believe me, I got 88 per cent in Hindi in my tenth grade: the last time ever I gave an exam in Hindi.
yup. i have bought quite a fewhindi and marathi books and left them in her cupboard. hopefully that should do the trick. i used to read them out to her from time to time. I guess i will restart that and hope she takes to them as she has taken to the others.
ReplyDeletethe key point is that i am refusing to take any stress on this. as of now... i am positioning myself as the creative writing specialist. :)
as far as your 88 in tenth... you are a superfreak. nobody gets 88 in hindi. wow. I barely managed to get enough not to murder my overall average.