COF Senior Member United States Joined 5859 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 25 of 27 29 May 2012 at 1:18pm | IP Logged |
Why is Hindi so unpopular? I mean, I think more people learn Dutch than study Hindi, despite it being one of the most widely spoken language in the world and very much the lingua franca of India (perhaps along with English too).
1 person has voted this message useful
|
Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4777 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish
| Message 26 of 27 29 May 2012 at 4:59pm | IP Logged |
Elementary Hindi teaches you a more formal Hindi, not the colloquial Hindi you hear in Bollywood movies or on the streets of India (so you learn Sanskritized vocabulary like PUSTAK instead of everyday KITAB, both meaning ''a book'')).
Teach yourself Hindi is much better (but look for the newest version, the older ones are like Elementary Hindi, too separated from everyday Hindi).
Teach yourself series also feature Latin-script-transliteration for the 1st 10 lessons.
Elementary Hindi is [dev'nagri]-only right from the start.
Edited by Camundonguinho on 29 May 2012 at 5:02pm
2 persons have voted this message useful
|
fthreet88 Newbie United States Joined 4490 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes
| Message 27 of 27 06 September 2012 at 9:33pm | IP Logged |
Elementary Hindi is good and it doesn't only give you formal hindi it gives you more modern uses as well. Pimsleur
also has a course for spoken hind and is very good as well.
1 person has voted this message useful
|