Punjabi is spoken in mainly three areas of the world; in East Punjab (India) where it is a state
n.b. This is not my translation but one from GOOGLE
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One who cannot dance often blames the floor
Come and see where Smurfette traveled today
Come back tomorrow to see where she visits next with her dog Barfy
""Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
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I am king, you a king: who is to fetch the water?
- Today I'd rather be just roaming around Chandigarh -
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Taj Mahal at sunset
"If we hang around much longer Donkey, we'll be speaking Punjabi"
"Well Shrek, I just love the site just below us, and it's FREE."
--- "Can you find Patna on the map? ---
Punjab District Map
I know from my own experience that being on a continual path of self-improvement is an absolute necessity toward be a good teacher. Hang out with other educators that you admire. Watch them closely and learn from them. Imitation is the greatest compliment! Join your Punjabi language association plus two foreign language teacher associations (state and national: ACTFL- (http://www.actfl.org) and attend their annual meetings on a regular basis. Get involved anyway you can with each. Rub noses with people at the TOP. Get to know the officers personally. Keep in contact with them. Use these association offerings, suggestions and resources.
Whenever you can in your own environment, ask to observe colleagues in action in their language classroom. Pick up ideas that work for them and adopt and adapt them to you own classroom. Always be on the "lookout" for new ideas, new means of teaching, new ways to incorporate things that work for others into your own methodology. Don't hesitate to ask questions of teachers who have had much success as to how and why that happened. I used to observe elementary teachers and how they interacted with their young students. Always something to learn. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You'll never live long enough to make all of them yourself." Another that I always loved is "If you think you're green, you'll grow - if you think you're ripe, you'll rot." All true. Don't rot! That's an axiom that will never grow old. You may think that you are the best, but you're not. There is always someone better than you. (I learned this playing basketball) Learn from them. Know what the best practices are and be aware of the current online resources that can be of great help to you and your Punjabi students.
Keep your Punjabi classroom presentations FRESH. Keep up with innovation and the changing needs of your students by incorporating technology such as computer use, iPhones, iPads, e-mail and a host of other innovations into your routine classroom activities to communicate with others in the target language and to access authentic resources. Stay current with options and trends in the field such as the National Standards and know how to incorporate them into your daily plans. Hopefully these few ideas will aid in your growth and success. Stay with it. Don't throw in the towel like many have, but again as I point out above, whatever new ideas you discover, you must first adopt and then adapt. Not everything you see elsewhere will work for you as I have personally learned. You must adapt those ideas to your own classroom. There are a host of great ideas available on all these sites, but they are only as successful as you will make them. And perhaps most important of all, do ask your Punjabi students often how they feel about what they are doing and learning and what they enjoy the most and the least in your classroom. Most of all, do enjoy your students and share yourself with them. [They don't care how much you know until they know how much you CARE] I hope that you picked up some ideas here that will aid in your total success. Have fun in your classroom. (ps I picked up these ideas in a recent dream and wanted to share with each of you) I'm 72 but never too old to learn and never too old to share ideas. Best yet, why not be learning another language yourself? Check out one of the sites above. It is a great means to experience first-hand what your students are feeling. Now you are "walking in their moccasins." Don't forget to have FUN doing it. jeb BA, MA, ABD
Best Punjabi Websites
language, in West Punjab (Pakistan) where it is most widely spoken and in the diaspora,
particularly Britain, North America, East Africa and Australia. No exact figures are available on
the number of Punjabi speakers, either as a first or second language, but if the
speakers of various dialects of Punjabi are taken into account an approximation
of 100 million would not be too far from the truth.
"The whole secret to life is to be interested in one thing
profoundly and in a thousand things well"
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Translate a website into another language
Input the URL and choose the destination language and BINGO!
This one is a very helpful tool.
Learning Games and Fun Activities for the Punjabi Classroom
n.b.: The translation below was done using an online translator
The Activities website above translated into Punjabi
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A one-eyed man is king amongst blind men - Ancient Proverb
- Senior Citizen Travel -
Come and visit the world
on this site everyday.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Translator Sites: English -> Punjabii & Punjabi-> English
Raja of Hindustan
Punjab Culture
We are India. Come and see for yourselves.
And right over here you'll find Ludhiana and Moga
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Welcome to maa.com.au. This Online Punjabi Learning program is designed to provide children around the world with high quality e-learning Punjabi that facilitates their development of communication skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing Punjabi.
Gurmukhi is a simplified script that contains ten vowels and forty consonants. The script is written just as you would speak the language, thus making learning to read and write much easier.
Included are dictionaries and online newspapers.
People living in the Punjab, and many Punjabi immigrants abroad, speak the Punjabi language.
Please browse through our list of 59 Punjabi Teachers. To arrange lessons to learn Punjabi you can view any teachers profile page, or just click the contact button to send an instant message.
In this Chapter we will learn the letters of punjabi and their pronounciation. Click on the alphabet to learn pronounciation.
First Tutors: Languages helps you to find your preferred private Beginner Punjabi teacher in the UK. Please use our service to search for Beginner Punjabi lesssons near you and select which best meet your requirements.
Link from Arizona State University. This site is designed to teach you and help you learn Punjabi for free through vocabulary, phrases, grammar and flashcards (vocabulary trainer).
It has been a long standing demand of the 5abi.com readers that we should, using the techniques of information technology and the multi-media capabilities of the Internet, provide a series of Punjabi learning modules.
Audio lessons are a very important factor in learning Punjabi because they help you hear how words are pronounced and also provide you with an extra means of learning other than reading. This is a VERY RICH site. Don't miss it.
If you're trying to learn Punjabi which is also called Panjabi, check our courses about adjectives, adverbs, articles, gender (feminine, masculine...), negation, nouns, numbers, phrases, plural, prepositions, pronouns, questions, verbs, vocabulary, excercises... to help you with your Punjabi grammar. Below are our free Punjabi lessons.
All the lessons contain audio and are all offered for free.
This is a vocabulary trainer also called Punjabi Flashcards.
Punjabi Tutorial Lessons
A great means to improve your Punjabi online
Lots and Lots of them
Punjabi Quizzes
The Land of Five Rivers
Take this quiz and test your knowledge about this state and its capital.
Learning the Punjabi Questions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Punjabi language. But first we need to know what the role of Questions is in the structure of the grammar in Punjabi.
QuizMoz offers one of the Internet's largest collection of Tests for you to exercise your grey cells.
increase your knowledge, grow your confidence.
Punjabi Vocabulary
The Punjabi vocabulary is the backbone for learning. Below we picked 70% of the most commonly used words. Therefore memorizing them will give you a 70% boost in the language.
A nice listing of al the best ones.
A nice listing of all the major newspapers in the Punjabi language.
Indian Names with meanings, Muslim Names, 17,347 Indian Boy and Girl Names
Learning the Script
Come and Visit India
A recap of BOLLYWOOD in 2009
A Gateway to Government of India Info over the Web
Official site of the Government of India
Hey guys, you're flying WEST. Turn around will you?
East Punjab is the other direction. Are you real pilots???
Great Punjabi Art
With Jim's Great Language Homepage...
SHREK can leap over donkeys in16 languages!
And with this great site we can learn dozens more.
Hop in with one of us. We're on our way to learn Punjabi.
Jim's Travel Websites
Today you and I are going to speak Punjabi, okay?
Practice speaking wherever and whenever you can
Time for a refreshing plunge
"Monolingualism Can Be Cured"
So start learning Punjabi today
To lose is to learn
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One of the most important aspects of SikhNet's mission is giving Sikhs a chance to express themselves, and educate the world about the Sikh faith. In 2014, SikhNet will continue to feature even more educational content created by the Sikh community.
Shahmukhi derives its character set from Persian/Arabic scripts.
The word 'Gurmukhi' literally means from the mouth of the Guru. Gurmukhi has 35 letters as well as nine vowel modifiers.
Here are number of free Punjabi language lessons and language courses for those learning Punjabi, along with some other Punjabi language resources, such as Punjabi online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets, dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.
Language Exchange via Email, Text Chat and Voice Chat
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Free Punjabi Music, Free Music, Best Web Site for Music.
Best Download daily Update website.
Boston Bhangra is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultural understanding and mentorship for youths through a common thread: Bhangra. Bhangra has taken on many definitions in the past decade, and has a strong part in many individual's lives for many different reasons.
Folk Punjab is a project to collect folk and sufi music of Punjab. Please note that this is not yet another music website, it's a sincere effort to give our folk music the place it deserves.
Folk Punjab is a project to collect folk and sufi music of Punjab. Please note that this is not yet another music website, it's a sincere effort to give our folk music the place it deserves.
The word "Punjab" is made up of two Persian words -Panj- and -Aab-. Panj means five and Aab means water. This name was probably given to this land possibly in an era when this region came into close contact with Persia. The Punjab was known as land of five rivers because of the five rivers that ran through it.
Punjabi Culture is one of the oldest in world history, dating from ancient antiquity to the modern era. The scope, history, complexity and density of the culture are vast.
Great Punjab Food
These photos may just make you very hungry.
One of the main features of Punjabi cuisine is its diverse range of dishes.
Punjabi cuisine (from the Punjab region of Northern India and Eastern Pakistan). Punjabi cuisine can be non-vegetarian or completely vegetarian.
The spice content ranges from minimal to pleasant to high. Punjabi food is usually relished by people of all communities. In Punjab, home cooking differs from the restaurant cooking style.
A language exchange with a Punjabi language pen pal is an excellent way to make a Punjabi-speaking friend, learn about the culture and improve your Punjabi language skills.
Click on a name for more information or to contact the member.
The Punjabi grammar checker can detect and suggest rectifications for a number of grammatical errors, resulting from the lack of agreement, order of words in various phrases etc., in literary style Punjabi texts.
You can even choose which rein of India you want to explore. Enjoy.
India's #1 Language Portal
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360 Cities
A really cool site that takes you all over the world to view close up and with 360 degree views with just your Mouse.
A super view of the Taj in the early evening. Now go exploring all over India for more sites.
Lonweb.org is a huge resources with thousands of language related links. A super new find.
Mumbai is the largest city of India and is the capital of Bollywood. The city is famous for its nightlife and various celebrities and businessmen reside here or around it.
Top Travel Destinations this Season. A collection of some of India's most enticing holidays.
Google News in English.
Being the oldest city of the world and an important Hindu pilgrimage center, Varanasi attracts a large number of people from all over the world. For centuries, Varanasi is famous for spiritualism, mysticism, Indian philosophy and Hinduism.
The rich culture and great heritage of India attract people from all over. Every year millions of people come to India to explore different places and regions. The variety that India offers is rarely seen in any other part of the world.
Offering India tour packages covering all prominent tourist places, regions and monuments.
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Email, or e-mail as it is often spelled, is a massive part of everyday life, and whether business or personal emails, the words contained within an email represent the sender.
Check out my English as a Second Language sites.
An amazing video as a train passes right through an outdoor market.
Google India (google.co.in): Indian version of this popular search engine.
IndianPenpals.net is a free service that allows one to not only find new Indian Penpal friends, but also allows people to get in touch with other penpals around the World as well.
India Google Satellite map that maps India locations. Maplandia.com enables you to explore everywhere in India through detailed satellite imagery - fast and easy as never before. Try it... it is an awesome site.
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Punjabi language teacher hints, advice and tips