Duolingo is a waste of Time

Duolingo is a waste of Time

Duolingo is a waste of time. Here are better alternatives.

Spanish Pronunciations for Hindi speakers

Every resource that I came across tries to teach Spanish to English speakers. Those who already know Hindi/Devanagari have certain advantages. Both in terms of producing the correct Spanish pronunciation as well as being able to read/speak the Spanish language. Like Hindi, Spanish is much more phonetic and rule-based than English.

Indian accent

About 50% of Indians use Hindi as their primary language. Hindi/Devanagari is fairly phonetic except when it starts to import foreign words. And that鈥檚 why many Indians, with Hindi as their primary language, end up with incorrect pronunciations of foreign, mainly English, words. Let鈥檚 look at a few specific categories of mistakes.

Hindi: The missing "v" sound

why do indians use w and v interchangeably

A Punjabi (Gurmukhi) primer for native Hindi (Devanagari) speakers

The ultimate guide for native Hindi speakers to learn Gurmukhi (Punjabi) script