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Punjabi Lessons
based on book: A START IN PUNJABI
Video Lectures
Dr. HARJIT SINGH GILL
Lesson Topics
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lesson 1
Introduction– unaspirated consonants – high tone
lesson 2
Welcome Home – vowels
lesson 3
Welcome Home – consonants (k c t p / g j d b), r
lesson 4
Dining – consonants (k c t p / kh ch th ph), Punjabi and English v/w.
lesson 5
Fruit Market – single and double consonants Punjabi and English a/ā, present/future
lesson 6
Sweets shop – retroflex sounds, Punjabi and English r/ḍ/ṛ, feminine/ masculine, counting
lesson 7
Market – tones, counting
lesson 8
Directions, hiring a rickshaw-ṛ/ḍ/ṭ/ṇ, tones, infinitive, present, future, counting in fractions
lesson 9
Fruit Market-retroflex lateral,ḷ/ḍ , singular/plural, feminine/ masculine, positive/ negative
lesson 10
Golden Temple Amritsar –tones, narrative, present continuous
lesson 11
A Folk-Tale (of a crow and sparrow) - summary of consonants and vowels, ph/f, j/z, nasals, tones on different syllables, narrative past tense
lesson 12
A Legend (Guru Nanak and Mardana) - narrative, different forms of past tense, instrumental constructions, case forms
lesson 13
Diwali (the festival of lights) – the sentence structure, narrative present tense, forms of the auxiliary
lesson 14
Id (an important Muslim festival) – narrative present tense, verb phrases
lesson 15
Lohri (the winter festival of fire) – future tense, past tense
lesson 16
Agriculture – use of what, where, who, why, emphatic, negative, other forms of questions
lesson 17
On the Farm – general dialogue, imperatives, pronouns
lesson 18
Around the kitchen in village – present, past, future commands, requests, suggestions, subordinate clauses
lesson 19
Vegetable Market – emphatics, intonation
lesson 20
Suggestions for further study