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How do you pronounce "जल्दी" in Hindi?
JUL-dee — a dry j, a bright l, a dental d, and a long ee at the end.
jaldee
A short closed syllable feeding a long open one, so the beat is at the end. The l-d junction in the middle has no vowel between the consonants, which keeps the word to two crisp beats rather than the three the spelling might suggest.
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Hear it in a sentence
मैं जल्दी वापस आऊँगा।
Maiṁ jaldee vaapas aaooṁgaa.
I will be back soon.
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"Maiṁ jaldee vaapas aaooṁgaa" ends on the masculine future aaooṁgaa, whose nasalized ooṁ is the first-person marker. Vaapas in the middle uses the ambiguous व sound and has two schwas, so jaldee's long ee stands out between them.
Where English speakers slip
The dark English l before d is the biggest tell, turning "jal-" into something like "jowl." Keep the tongue tip firmly on the ridge with the tongue body low. The d then needs to move forward to the teeth, and the initial j needs to lose its English puff.