Hi, this is just a note to say THANK YOU for the lessons in Devanagari. While, yes, I wish you had had time to finish them, getting me as far along as you took me was a huge help. These were fabulous, and just what I was looking for as I struggled through the beginning parts of learning this language. You learn and teach with the same kind of techniques I use, and it was wonderful to have someone who had thought through a logical order for an English-speaking learner to begin seeing the differences between these letters. Your descriptions of nasalization helped a lot too, even though I'd read material on this in other texts.
I recognize from the dates that you've moved on to bigger and better things. But just in case you ever had a free moment to go back and polish this (I don't know--perhaps when you begin teaching a child or grandchild to read Hindi) let me mention two trivial mistakes I noticed.
http://www.garretwilson.com/education/languages/hindi/devanagari/lesson1/soundrepresentation.html
On this page, I doubt you would want "we have went over" to stand. Your writing is clearly better than this.
http://www.garretwilson.com/education/languages/hindi/devanagari/lesson5/l_practice.html
In the answer to the last of the exercises on this page salty is spelled "solty" and there is a missing final parenthesis.
I wish that I could find more complete materials using this methodology, but for now, I'll go back to what I have, satisfied that at least I am half way there and I have some clues as to what I am looking for as I learn the alphabet.
Rebecca Howell
RRHowell41@aol.com
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