Video's In Hindi/Urdu
Posted: 2010-06-01, 0:40
This topic is to post videos in Hindi and Urdu. They can be funny, from tv shows and can help with learning lanaguge
Iorque wrote:An American polyglot speaking Urdu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrfvUXHeVso
How's his accent?
Iorque wrote:Is Urdu supposed to have these Arabic sounds?
Velayati wrote:Iorque wrote:An American polyglot speaking Urdu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrfvUXHeVso
How's his accent?
In short, it's atrocious.
Velayati wrote:Here is another American polyglot with a very good accent. His Urdu is simply incredible and better than that of most native speakers, myself included
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOEKkKClQH0
Velayati wrote:Iorque wrote:An American polyglot speaking Urdu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrfvUXHeVso
How's his accent?
In short, it's atrocious.
Specific criticisms can be found in the comments section. However, I can understand him fully and his grasp of the language exceeds that of many Pakistani-Americans I know. I'm sure with practice and exposure to native speakers his Urdu can improve dramatically.
He's a member of this forum!Iorque wrote:Is Urdu supposed to have these Arabic sounds?
No, it's not. Urdu has many Arabic loanwords, but those troublesome emphatic and guttural consonants lose their distinct sounds in spoken Urdu. You probably have noticed this in your study of Persian, which has even more Arabic loanwords.
Here is another American polyglot with a very good accent. His Urdu is simply incredible and better than that of most native speakers, myself included
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOEKkKClQH0
Shadad wrote:Is that how Urdu sounds!? Do Hindi and Urdu have different accents? I really like this, but it doesn't sound like the Hindi I've heard. Well, not that I've heard that much Hindi anyway...Just asking.
Meera wrote:Well it depends what Hindi your going for, in more Urdu-ish Hindi it can sound like that. But this man is using many Persian and Arabic words.
Shadad wrote:I want to get to a conversational level in both Hindi and Urdu, but I heard that they're basically the same at that level.
Shadad wrote:Is the man talking fancy?
Shadad wrote:Don't they use the Arabic and Persian vocabulary in the colloquial speech?
kalemiye wrote:He's a member of this forum!
kalemiye wrote:Velayati wrote:Here is another American polyglot with a very good accent. His Urdu is simply incredible and better than that of most native speakers, myself included
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOEKkKClQH0
Wow!!!
Meera wrote:Thanks sooo much for explaining!
Meera wrote:If I wanted to learn Modern Standard Urdu at the same time with Hindi, will it be very difficult? I have Teach Yourself Urdu and Im thinking of starting it but I dont if Its a good idea while I do Hindi.
Meera wrote:Also is there any need for urdu translators or other jobs?
Velayati wrote:
This is just my opinion, but I feel Standard Hindi sounds coarse and unpleasant in comparison to Standard Urdu. Because of Sanskritic influence, Hindi has more of those harsh retroflex sounds than Urdu, which has inherited the softness and elegance of Persian
TeneReef wrote:Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To me retroflex sounds don't sound harsh at all.
For example, compare retroflex R of American English to the alveolar R of Scottish English.
Scottish R sounds much harsher, in my opinion, because it's not retroflex.
Abundance of retroflex sounds can make a language sound distinctively South Asian,
Malayalam and Tamil have even more retroflex sounds and sound even more exotic (South Asian) than Hindi.
Meera wrote:Thanks for the Info. Also I know you dont know Panjabi
Meera wrote:would Panjabi be confusing learned with or after Hindi/Urdu?