How to improve my Hindi pronunciations?

Introduction

If you are learning the Hindi language, it is important to know how to pronounce Hindi words correctly. If you want to speak with a Hindi native speaker and in that situation, you will need to improve your Hindi pronunciation.

1. Practicing Hindi on Your Own

When you learn Hindi you should know how to pronounce it. Whether you are learning your alphabet or grammar or vocabulary and longer phrases, it is always useful to hear yourself speak.

Enable record-setting on your phone and speak into a mike or even take out your old cassette recorder to hear yourself. Hear your own voices through the amplifier of your own skull, where you will get trouble recognizing it when you hear it in recordings and focus instead on the way you are pronouncing new words.

2. Pronounce each word sounds individually 

When you are starting, take about 10 sounds per session to work on and, focus on those you have trouble with. Listen to a native Hindi speaker, record yourself, and listen to yourself, repeat.

3. Select new words

Pick few words from a Hindi dictionary or vocabulary list and pronounce them. This will help you to learn the sounds together. Listen to a Hindi online dictionary and get not just the sounds, but make sure to have the right syllable.

4. Select new sentences

Pick one or two sentences from a book or, and repeat those which will help you to practice the rhythm of the language, which will help to pronounce. A language is like a song which has its own rhythm, with the different syllable in each word and different words in each sentence. You can also have a challenging exercise to look up and pronounce some of the Hindi tongue twisters easily.

5. Have a conversation with a native speaker

Another way to practice is to speak with a native Indian who may be from Delhi or Kolkata who has learned Hindi as a mother tongue. This can be done by finding a Hindi language partner through a language exchange website or you can hire a private tutor to speak with you in Hindi and help with your pronunciation.

This might prevent you from getting together as often as you need to in order to really learn a language. If you have a private tutor, your teacher will work around your schedule and you will not skip a class and will try to make it up. By having a tutor, they will be more aware of the problems that you did when trying to pronounce Hindi.

6. Learn the Hindi verbs 

Verbs describe an action, occurrence, or state of being. Hindi verbs are the infinitive form, as verbs are conjugated by the infinitive ending and adding suffixes. Hindi infinitives end in ना naa.