What Vowels did we cover last time? Yeah that’s right, we saw the slightly tricky vowels ए e and ऐ ai. Can you remember? Have a read over Lesson #5 again if you’ve forgot! Today we’re going to cover two more vowels and then we’ll only have one left and then you’ll know all the vowels of Hindi, are you excited?

Ready to start learning our new vowels for today? Great here goes! The first vowel for today is…

 o  

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This is the letter ओ o. Remember to click the play button to hear the letter pronounced!

This is pronounced just like the ‘o’ in the English word domain or like the french 'eau’ and not like the 'o’ in hotel. Be sure to keep listneing What does this letter look like? It looks very similar to the vowel आ aa that we learnt in Lesson #2 just it has a little flick on the top, can you see the difference? ओ o and आ aa , आ aa and ओ o. Got it?

When we want to add the vowel ओ o to a consonant we use the symbol  ो.

The verb 'To Sleep’ in Hindi is सोना sonaa. Can you see the letter ओ o here? See the symbol ो on the letter स sa at the start giving us सो so. Remember that सो so does not sound like the English word 'so’ as in 'it was so difficult’. Have a listen to these sample words by clicking play just below!

दो do is the number 'two’ in Hindi. The Hindi word for 'doors’ is दरवाज़े darvaaze. So if we wanted to say 'two doors’ it would simply be; दो दरवाज़े do darvaaze - two doors! Don’t forget to keep listening to the word by clicking the play button just next to the doors! 

Have you got that? Well done. So are you ready to move on to our next vowel? Great! Here goes…

 au 

This is the vowel औ au. What does it look like? Well it’s similar to ओ o just औ au has two flicks on the top. औ au is the only vowel in Hindi that has two flicks at the top (when not attached to a consonant) so it’s easy to remember! How do we pronounce it then? It’s pronounced just like 'aw’ in awesome or awful, make sure you listen to it plenty of times! Got it? 

Ready to learn a few sample words using this letter? The first word is; और aur means 'and’ or 'more’ in Hindi. This word is (quite expectedly) very common, you’ll be hearing it loads so it’s a real good idea to learn it! Have a listen to it just below!

When we want to add the vowel औ au to a consonant we simply use the symbol ौ. So let’s look at an example…

कौन kaun means 'who?’ in Hindi. You can hear it by clicking play just above! Here’s a useful little Hindi sentence you might want to know - वह कौन है? voh kaun hai? - Who is that? 

Phew, that’s it for another lesson! We’ve learnt two more vowels today, ओ o and औ au which means there’s only one vowel left for us to learn! Make sure you go over everything a few time to ensure you remember it! We’ll done for sticking with it this far! बहुत अच्छा bahut acchaa - very good! 

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