AC9LH4U01

Elaborations

• AC9LH4U01_E1pronouncing the sounds of the 45 Hindi letters and applying this knowledge to words and sentences
• AC9LH4U01_E2imitating the discrimination of aspirated and unaspirated sounds, for example, क-ख, द-ध।
• AC9LH4U01_E3recording themselves reading short texts aloud to practise sounds, stress and intonation, and predicting pronunciation by sounding out words based on phonetic knowledge
• AC9LH4U01_E4understanding that Hindi vowels can be pronounced with a nasal quality which is represented by either a चंद्रबिंदु or a small dot (बिंदु) above the headstroke, for example, हाँ, मैं
• AC9LH4U01_E5understanding that the sound and letter correspondence is the same in written and spoken Hindi, that there are no silent letters and there is only one sound for each letter
• AC9LH4U01_E6recognising how to distinguish between nasal vowel sounds and nasal consonants, and the rules that govern how to represent nasal consonant combinations in words such as गंगा/गङ्गा, पंजाब/पञ्जाब, ठंड/ठण्ड, बंद/बन्द and तुम्हारा
• AC9LH4U01_E7recognising that there are loan words in Hindi from languages such as English, Persian, Arabic, Turkish and Portuguese, and learning how the under dotted characters क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, फ़ are used to represent such loan sounds
• AC9LH4U01_E8identifying long and short matra forms of vowels in words, for example, मछली-तितली, तरबूज, चुहिया, सैनिक
• AC9LH4U01_E9recognising how pitch, stress and rhythm help to convey meaning even when individual words are unfamiliar, for example रुको