Lesson #60: Abhinav’s Introduction
To check your understanding and knowledge of all the things we have learnt recently here I have presented a short paragraph giving a full but breif introduction for a fictional person called Abhinav. Do you think you’re ready to try and understand it? This will use phrases from both the Conversational Section and the Beginners Grammar Section of this website, so revise over the lessons there if you struggle.
New words I use here are translated in the vocabulary section at the bottom. There’s also a few a comprehension questions at the end just to check you’ve understood, so please leave a comment with what you think the answers are and I’ll let you know how well you’ve done!
So here it is! Abhinav’s Introduction…
नमस्ते। तुम कैसे हो? मैं बहुत अच्छा हूँ।
मेरा नाम अभिनव है और मैं अठारह साल का हूँ। मैं हिन्दुस्तानी हूँ और मैं विद्यार्थी हूँ। मेरे पिताजी का नाम सुरेश है। वे भी हिन्दुस्तानी हैं और वे पैंतालीस साल के हैं।
मेरी माताजी अंग्रेज़ हैं और उनका नाम मेरी (Mary) है। वे हिन्दी सीख रही हैं। वे काफ़ी छोटी हैं। हमारा घर बड़ा और सफ़ेद है। मेरा कमरा छोटा है लेकिन यह बहुत अच्छा है।
फिर मिलेंगे।
namaste. tum kaise ho? main bahut acchaa hoon.
meraa naam abhivan hai aur main athaarah saal kaa hoon. main hindustaanee hoon aur main vidyaarthee hoon. mere pitaajee kaa naam suresh hai. ve bhee hindustaanee hain aur ve paintaalees saal ke hain.
meree maataajee angrez hain aur unkaa naam meree (Mary) hai. ve hindee seekh rahee hain. ve kaafee chotee hain. hamaaraa ghar baraa aur safed hai. meraa kamaraa chotaa hai lekin yeh bahut acchaa hai.
phir milenge
Here’s the new Vocabulary:
हिन्दुस्तानी hindustaanee Indian
विद्यार्थी vidyaarthee Student
पैंतालीस paintaalees Fourty Five
अंग्रेज़ angrez English (As in an English person)
काफ़ी kaafee Quite
लेकिन lekin But
One thing to note is that Abhinav uses plural pronouns (ie वे ve ) when talking about his mother or father, this is used to show respect. You should always remember to refer to someone older than you this way!
If you didn’t understand anything here then firstly check back over the Conversational Section and the Beginners Grammar Section of this website and then if you still dont understand please feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of this lesson.
Finally, can you answer these three questions on the text? Answer the first two in Hindi and the last in English.
क्या अभिनव अंग्रेज़ी है? kyaa abhinav angrezee hai?
अभिनव की उम्र क्या है? abhinav kee umr kyaa hai?
Who is Mary and what is she learning?
Why don’t you practice your Hindi by writing an introduction about yourself basing it on some of the same phrases we’ve used here, maybe you can even think of your own phrases to describe your life. Leave your introduction in a comment if you want me to check through it!
