"This is Julia."
Translation:यह जूलिया है।
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I'm frustrated with this learning tool. Why do I need to be tested on saying "This is Julia" 1,000 times. How often does that come up in conversation? This learning software needs more variety in the lessons. I'm not learning as much as I should be.
how to know it is written जूलिया and not जूलीया? Just something you need to memorize?
You have to memorize how they say the name in Hindi, with short "i" or long "ee".
It's Jooliya, so the "li" is short, the emphasised part is "ya" या.
लि = li (short)
ली = lee (long)
The consonant is L ल
You notice the vowel who will make the consonant sounds, is before the letter when it's short.
And be careful, लि seems longer than ली, when you see them written graphically , but it's the opposite !!
Ligatures:
ल + इ (short i)= लि
ल + ई (long i) = ली
Yes, we call them मात्रा in hindi and we need to memorize them and practice again and again to clear those concepts.
As you say, i do need to ear each sentence to memorize. Or this ''alphabet'' is only an abstraction. We must go to DISCUSS to ear when it's availlable...I would benefit the app if EACH exercise has an audio on the cover.
How is this different than "she is Julia"? Is there any way to know grammatically or would it be based on context clues?
I think it can be based on context clues... It has same difference as in "she's Julia" and "This is Julia". She-> वह and this->यह
Yes, context.
Who is she? She is Julia.
I want to introduce you someone I like: This is Julia!
Yes, you can say it. It's a direct translation of the English sentence and grammatically incorrect, but people often say it in informal contexts.
In Duolingo, normally stops and punctuation are not mandatory.
The stop with the non Hindi keyboard is Alt+124 |
(It's not exactly the same character, but a good approximation)
| and ।, the real । is smaller.
You can cut and paste the words from this site:
https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/devanagari.htm
Or:
https://gate2home.com/Hindi-Keyboard
If you use Chrome, add this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-input-tools/mclkkofklkfljcocdinagocijmpgbhab
Help with translitteration:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/convert-indian-scripts-to/gphfffofoeckboenbbombhlaadgheepd
For firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/hindi-keyboard/?src=search
Hindi keyboard:
Looks like it's in the 3rd line, at the beginning.
I never used duolingo on computer... So I don't know what is it like. Is Duolingo not providing a keyboard?
I tried using Duolingo on computer.. I think work banks are useful than keyboards.. point is you know that after every sentence is over you have to use '।' so practically writing will be no problem for you.
I can use the wordbank, then I don't have to put the final stop. I'd like to be able to talk also (so I can train spelling), but then it says my answer is wrong because there's no full stop.
The correct formal pronunciation (grammatically) of Yaha is Yahuh but colloquially it is said as Yeh because of changing dialects every 4 miles in India. Yeh is accepted as informal pronunciation but if you were to converse in a formal way for official purposes it is pronounced as Yahuh.
Is she refer to yeh and he refers to vah? I know yeh is this and vah is that but when it comes to gender. Example yeh julia aur yeh raj. This is Julia and this is raj, when introducing. Or yeh Raj aur vah Julia. Which one can be used to determine the gender
