Practicing the Letter r

We're still not quite ready to put the letters together. Let's just practice the letter , "ra."

In these first few lessons, we're bending the English equivalents of the Devanagari , "ra." You could say, "Randy" and "really" in your best Indian accent (like you've seen in the movies), and you would come close to the sound of , "ra." But the "r" sound in "tore" and "near" is really not the correct sound of , "ra." They don't have that tapping sound that , "ra," represents.

I include these "not-exactly-correct" transliterations because the most important thing for you to learn right now is that , "ra," represents the "r" sound. You can work on your pronunciation later. For now, I want you to look at think, "ra."

You know by now that , "ra," replaces the "wr" in "write" because both of these letters together stand for the "r" sound.