Letters that look alike
Much of the slowness in reading comes down to a handful of pairs. In two of them the difference is the headline, the bar along the top: it runs over the whole of म ma and घ gha, and only over the stem of भ bha and ध dha. In the drill the wrong answers offered are the look-alikes.
pa, ṣa
ṣa is pa with a stroke across it.
ba, va
ba has the stroke inside its loop; va has none.
ma, bha
gha, dha
ḍa, ṅa, da
ṅa is ḍa with a dot beside it.
kha, rava
kha is one letter; rava is ra then va, two letters side by side.
ya, tha
Drill
All 15 items, both ways: Devanāgarī to IAST, then IAST to Devanāgarī. A miss comes back later in the round; the lesson is drilled when every one has been right both ways. Progress is kept in this browser.
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