Omkar N.
Wakhlu & Bharat Wakhlu
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Chapter 4
A Short Story
The following paragraph is a
very short story. All the forty four letters of the alphabet are used in it.
Read the sentences aloud a number of times until you get a feel for the distinct
sounds of each letter.
Ask a Kashmiri speaking friend
or neighbour or teacher to listen to you until you get it right. It is easy, if
you remember that even a three year old child does it effortlessly. Concentrate
on the sounds with joy and love and practice repeatedly. Practice makes perefect.
The following story contains all
the vowel sounds and consonants of the Kashmiri language. Practice reading it
aloud.
A quarrelsome monkey climbed up a
tree, ever so slowly, without shaking it much. Soon thereafter, he ran up
the tree excitedly so that he could bring down a basketful of apples from there.
But some men, who were, drinking tea on a cot were alerted, and they chased the
monkey away. On seeing their shadow the monkey was frightened, and ran
away fast as his legs could carry him.
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