Practicing the Letter y

Try reading these few sentences that use the letter ya, "ya." Later, we'll start to put the different letters together.

I yEARN FOR THE yEARS OF yORE.
I LIKE yAMS.
MY yARD HAS MANY yAMS, yET I'M HUNGRY.

You should know by now that the reason the letter ya, "ya," is not used in "many" and "hungry" is that Devanagari is phonetic; even though these words contain the English letter, "y," they do not contain the "y" sound.

See, ya, "ya," is starting to look similar to the English letter, "y." More importantly, it should start to look like it makes the "ya" sound. Read these sentences several times, until ya starts to scream out the "ya" sound.