and this is the letter N as in NuN.

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If we join them together we get the word , can you guess what it might be ?

Yes it is Sun !!

The next two letters are M and N.

M as in MuM

N as in NuN

To make a word we just join the letters together again so that the top line becomes continuous for eg mn (mind)

Now look at these four letters again

  Sit back visualise these in your mind and say them aloud.

.....S ,...........K , ............M. , ......and .........N

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If you got it right -well done . Award yourself a brownie point. Now learn another letter making the R sound as in Rum.

Lets read another word - to do - kr - .

Remember the five letters we have learnt

.Visualise all five again

...S, .........K , ............M. , ...........N ....and R....

Whats this word -die - .. yes it mr (murr) .

and this one ?

.....rm (Rum) and this is ....rn (Run)

Now see if you can read your first sentence in Hindi

...nmk km kr (namak kam kar) --- salt less do i.e. make it less salty!

As a test see if you can match the follwoing words Sir , Run , Rum , Rusk , Musk ,. 1 point for each correct answer.

Answers Rusk .... Run... Sir .... Musk ... Rum

So the word Musk above really reads as Masak . To write it phonetically we should use the half S as below .

One can get too carried away about half letters and some Indian languages like Punjabi dont have them . If in doubt dont use it . You have come to the end of Lesson 1 .

For an easy end to this lesson guess what these numbers are in Hindi . They are being used less and less being replaced by our common numbers 1 , 2 , 3 etc.

Write out the english letters as below and fill in the blanks as you go through the lessons . The five letters K M N R and S and half letter S are done for you. Keep referring to this figure as you go through the lessons.

In the next lesson we introduce the vowels .

Alphabet small size