- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Teach Yourself Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (10 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340866861
- ISBN-13: 978-0340866863
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 16.8 x 5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,508,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For beginners and those who want to brush up their Hindi, this is a complete course in understanding, speaking and writing Hindi, a language spoken by over 275 million people around the world. The course can be used as teaching material for both class tuition and individual study, presenting Hindi which is primarily colloquial and practical. It gives greater access to Urdu, Hindi's sister language, which shares a virtually identical grammar and much of the Hindi vocabulary. The course is divided into 18 units, each of which is based on dialogues which exemplify and bring to life the new grammar introduced in that particular unit. Transliteration in the roman script is provided for the first five units and for all words in the Hindi-English glossary. The dialogues form a kind of soap opera based on the life of a Delhi family; the English translations are deliberately close and literal, so as to form a key to the Hindi. The grammatical explanations are intended to be as accessible and non-technical as possible. The main grammatical structures of Hindi are all presented. There are plenty of exercises for readers to practice each new point and a key at the back for checking answers. Two cassettes which accompany the book are also included, containing approximately two hours of listening.
About the Author
Dr. Rupert Snell is a Reader in Hindi at SOAS and has been using the current edition as a course book for his students for more than ten years.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Entertaining and thorough Hindi language tutor,
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This review is from: Hindi (Teach Yourself) (Paperback)
This book is an excellent introduction to Hindi. Using dialogues and exercises it gives the learner a clear guide to Hindi grammar and vocabulary and the Devnaagari script. It is probably not suitable for anyone looking to acquire tourist Hindi in a short period of time, but there are many good guides available for this (even on-line). For anyone looking for a thorough guide to teach themselves (conversational as well as argumentative and occasionally cantankerous) Hindi, this book is highly recommended. It also has an entertaining, if bizarre, Bollywood ending.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Rigorous course by two SOAS lecturers,
By A Customer
This review is from: Hindi (Teach Yourself) (Paperback)
So many readers giving 5 stars for a textbook is fairly unusual but this is so much better than Bhatia's "Colloquial Hindi" that it deserves it. The main difference is in the longer length and use of the (easy and logical) devanagari script. RS McGregor's Hindi-English dictionary and the (revised) Lonely Planet Hindi phrasebooks are an excellent accompaniement to this course. McGregor's grammar is also worth getting (better than Srivasta's) though it is a course of a kind itself rather than a reference grammar.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rigorous course by two SOAS lecturers.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Hindi (Teach Yourself) (Paperback)
So many readers giving 5 stars for a textbook is fairly unusual but this is so much better than Bhatia's "Colloquial Hindi" that it deserves it. The main difference is in the longer length and use of the easy and logical devanagari script. (The reviewer who objected to the use of the script will never be able to speak Hindi naturally).Also on Amazon, RS McGregor's Hindi-English dictionary and the (now revised) Lonely Planet Hindi phrasebook are an excellent accompaniment to this course. McGregor's Hindi grammar is also worth getting (better than Srivasta's) although it is a course of a kind itself rather than a reference grammar per se.
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