We've now learned a whole year of Swahili!
Wow!
Let's try another language now, how about Hindi?
This is the language spoken by hundreds of millions of people acros the world, mostly in the country of India.
Hindi uses a different alphabet than English, called Devanagari.
It has 14 vowels and 33 consonants, and doesn't look at all like the English alphabet.
Let's learn how to say hello and goodbye in Hindi!
To say hello in Hindi you would say Namaste 文A
In the Devanagari letters it looks like this: नमस्ते
It's made up of letters like न na म ma स् sa ते ta, and when they are all together it sounds like nuh-mah-stay.
To say goodbye you can also say namaste, or you can say Alavida 文A
In the Devanagari letters it looks like this: अलविदा
It's made up of letters like अ a ल la वि vi दा da, and when they are all together it sounds like ah-l-vee-dah.
(from: wikipedia - devanagari)
Swahili: Jambo, Hujambo, Habari, Mambo, Shikamoo
Russian: Привет (privet), Здравствуй (Zdravstvuy), Пока (poka), до свидания (do svidaniya)
Norwegian: Hei, Hallo, Ha det, Ha det brah
Greek: Γειά σου (Geiá sou), Χαίρετε (Chairete), Αντίο (Antío)
ASL: Hello and Goodbye
Italian: Ciao, arrivederci
German: Hallo, Auf Wiedersehen
Spanish: Hola! Adiós!
French: Bonjour! Au Revoir!
